Best African American Woman Author Podcasts (2024)

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E109 Pre-Seed VC RSCM, 2k+ investments since 2012 1:08:55

12d ago1:08:55

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E109 Pre-Seed venture capital on Fireside with a VC speaking with David Lambert, Cofounder, Right Side Capital Management (RSCM) one of the most active pre-seed or pre-VC investors in Silicon Valley and across the US and Canada. Links and Resources: Watch the full episode onYouTube: https://youtu.be/cspNXaMmorI. Find all episodes of Firesidewith a …

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E108 Morgan Stanley Funding African American, Latino & Woman Startups 43:33

27d ago43:33

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E108 Fireside with a VC speaking with Alice Vilma, Managing Director and Co-Head of The Next Level Fund at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Alice explains how the Next Level Fund looks to promote financial inclusion and provide founders of tech and tech-enabled startups with much-needed access to investors—along with the tools, resources and c…

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E107 Scenario Planning for China & Asia, Silicon Valley & China 1:29:14

1M ago1:29:14

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E107 In this episode of Fireside with a VC, we discuss scenario planning for China & Asia and the relationship with Silicon Valley. We explore future opportunities with Francis Bassolino, Managing Director of Alaris Consulting, who has been helping companies of all sizes enter, succeed, and exit China over a span of 30+ years. Francis is also an ad…

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E106 Ex-Head of Eric Schmidt’s Family Office, CFO of Sybase, Excite@Home, Siebel, Fortinet, Yahoo! 53:23

2M ago53:23

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E106 Fireside with a VC speaking with Ken Goldman, former President of Eric & Wendy Schmidt’s family office, former CFO of Yahoo!, Fortinet, Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle), Excite@Home, Sybase, and Cypress Semiconductor. Discussed the changes in VC, going public and the reasons companies should go public again, the problems secondaries for fou…

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#105 Ex-President of TiE Silicon Valley, Chair of TiE Global, founder of Monta Vista Capital, Seed VC 52:40

2M ago52:40

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E105 Fireside with a VC speaking with Venktesh (Venk) Shukla founder of Monta Vista Capital and former President of TiE Silicon Valley, Chair of TiE Global. Venk explains the core values and magic of TiE. We discuss what Venk learned from making his first 20 investments and how he developed his framework for his Monta Vista Capital seed stage VC fu…

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#104 Tax secretes for founders & tech execs RSUs, AMT, ISO, 83(b) elections 43:51

3M ago43:51

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E104 Fireside with a VC speaking with Bruce Barton, founder of Parkworth, Wealth Management for Tech Professionals in Silicon Valley and the author of Author of Personal Finance for Tech Professionals In Silicon Valley and Beyond. Discussing tax and personal finance issues specific to employees and founders of publicly traded and privately held tec…

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#103, Cut costs, grow revs, raise or not raise more VC – Canadian episode! 45:38

3M ago45:38

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#103 Every CANADIAN startup or investor should listen to this episode! Fireside with a VC speaking with Kevin Kliman CEO of Humi discussing getting healthy lowering costs, maintaining growth, the tradeoffs to consider raising a growth VC funding round or not, and when to raise. Discussing Humi’s business which is processing $4.5bn CAD of payroll ev…

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#102, Revolution Ventures, Tige Savage cofounded w/ Steve Case 58:49

4M ago58:49

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Episode #102 Fireside with a VC speaking with Tige Savage who cofounded Revolution with Steve Case, founder of AOL – America Online, one of the biggest internet companies in history reaching a peak market cap of $200bn dominating email, internet connectivity, online news, and chat. Tige discusses all things venture capital with a wealth of multi-de…

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#101, Andrew Romans on American Dreams Show with Alen Olsen 34:00

4M ago34:00

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Fireside with a VC episode #101, Andrew Romans on The American Dreams Show with Alan Olsen discussing the future of venture capital covering Seed to Late Seed & Series A and Late Stage Growth VC and what has changed over the past few decades. Alan Olsen is a fixture in Silicon Valley and cofounder of GROCO Family Office Advisors, Advisors to the Ul…

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#100, Calculating valuations & how much capital to raise, Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI investments at Citi Ventures 48:05

5M ago48:05

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Fireside with a VC episode #100 speaking with Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI investments at Citi Ventures, discussing how to determine startup valuations and how much capital a startup should raise. How much to raise should be driven by enough time runway to achieve the next key milestone to unlock the next funding round - be that product, reven…

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#99, Using retirement IRA accounts to invest in VC funds w/ Matthew Calhoun at Equity Trust 12:15

6M ago12:15

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Fireside with a VC episode #99 speaking with Matthew Calhoun, director at Equity Trust, formerly Midland Trust Company, discussing the benefits of investing into alternative assets such as venture capital funds using your self-directed IRA dollars. What is a Self-Directed IRA and what is different from other retirement accounts? What are the requir…

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#98, How much funding to raise at what valuation with Eric Ver Ploeg, Founding Partner, Tunitas Ventures 47:34

6M ago47:34

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Fireside with a VC episode #98 speaking with Eric Ver Ploeg, Founding Partner of Tunitas Ventures about key data and trends in the US tech Series A fundraising environment as well as specifics about how much cash funding a startup should raise at pre-Seed, Late-Stage Seed and Series A as well as the many other considerations with regards to terms a…

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#97, The future of AI with Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon $159m VC funding 55:46

7M ago55:46

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Fireside with a VC episode #97 speaking with Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon $159m VC funding and founder and CEO of Yap, which Igor sold to Amazon which became the nucleus of Amazon’s Alexa & Fire TV. Pryon was the code name for Alexa. Discussing the evolution of humanity with AI, risks of AI, what we need or should expect with regulations, where inno…

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#96, Legal terms, governance & valuations for up, flat & down rounds with Fenwick’s Kristine Di Bacco 54:59

7M ago54:59

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Fireside with a VC episode #96 speaking with Kristine Di Bacco, Partner at law firm Fenwick, discussing tough terms for startups in the context of flat and down rounds as well as more punishing terms for startups. What is common and expected in today’s market for up, flat, down rounds as well as convertible notes and SAFEs? Planning today’s current…

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It's party time! 28:26

7M ago28:26

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In this topsy turvy episode, guest host Tracy Wood interviews Joni B. Cole about her new essay collection, Party Like It's 2044. For more info about Joni and her books: www.jonibcole.comBy Joni B. Cole

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Episode #95, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Peter Berg, Managing Director 53:15

8M ago53:15

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Episode #95, Peter Berg, one of two Managing Directors leading M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund, discusses with Andrew Romans on Fireside with a VC how Microsoft is investing in early-stage startups in B2B SaaS, AI, web3/crypto, and gaming. How the $2.776 trillion dollar conglomerate can add value to startups in a way no other VC can match. Find this a…

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Episode #94, Business with China now and in 2024 25:23

8M ago25:23

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Episode #94, Why is China the way it is, what’s happened, and how is China interacting with the rest of the world from a startup & VC perspective? Jonathan Bench, a China expert, practicing lawyer in the region, and active for over 20 years in the market, discusses with Andrew Romans on Fireside with a VC: • What led up to the decoupling with China…

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Episode #93, VC Panel Part Questions from Audience @7BC San Francisco Event Nov. 14, 2023 16:47

9M ago16:47

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Episode #93, VC Panel Part Questions from Audience @7BC San Francisco Event Nov. 14, 2023 VC Panel*Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures*Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital*Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital*Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures*Ben Levy, Cofounder, Bootstrap…

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Episode #92, VC Panel Part I @7BC San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023 20:57

9M ago20:57

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Episode #92, Part I of the VC Panel at the 7BC Venture Capital San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023*Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures*Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital*Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital*Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures*Ben Levy, Cofounder, BootstrapLab…

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Episode #91, VC Panel Part II @7BC San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023 20:57

9M ago20:57

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Episode #91, Part II of the VC Panel at the 7BC Venture Capital San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023*Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures*Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital*Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital*Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures*Ben Levy, Cofounder, BootstrapLa…

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Radio personality turned author Mike Morin on being the guy on both sides of the mic 27:22

10M ago27:22

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Mike talks about how his books "found" him, what authors need to do to drum up publicity, and the importance of making fun (of yourself). https://www.mikemorinmedia.com/By Joni B. Cole

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Episode #90, Down rounds & pay-to-pay provisions, raising at a lower valuation 43:30

10M ago43:30

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Episode #90, Down rounds & pay-to-pay provisions, raising at a lower valuation on Fireside with a VC Ben Kern, Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, corporate securities veteran, discusses the details of how startups raise funding in down rounds at lower valuations than the last funding round as well as more punitive financings that cram down or wipe ou…

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Episode #89, Jarred Kessler, CEO, EasyKnock fintech, real-estate tech 37:18

10M ago37:18

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Episode #89, Jarred Kessler, CEO, EasyKnock fintech, real-estate tech, 15th largest home owner in the US Discussing the dynamics of inflation, interest rates and the volatile US residential real-estate market; Running a New York fintech / real-estate startup before, during, and after Covid; Raising over $120m of equity funding and $600m of debt fin…

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#88, QSBS not paying tax on capital gains 21:37

10M ago21:37

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Episode #88, Everything you need to know about Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS), the exemption that allows investors in startups or investors in VC funds that invest in startups to NOT pay capital gains tax on the greater of the first $10m of capital gains or 10x the cost basis (what you paid for the stock). A discussion of what qualifies and …

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Episode #87, Lessons from new book “Smart Startups” interviews w/ Blue Apron & 17 other VC backed startups 56:08

11M ago56:08

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Episode #87 Discussion with Catalina Daniels and James Sherman, authors of Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders published today by Harper Business. This book has 18 interviews with a compelling list of founders that all raised VC funding and managed to get to an exit via M&A or IPO. T…

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Episode #86 Flint Capital investing in Israeli startups coming to the USA 54:53

11M ago54:53

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Episode #86 Flint Capital investing in Israeli startupscoming to the USA Fireside with a VC speaking with Andrew Gershfeld at Flint Capital based in Boston and Tel Aviv talking about funding and supporting Israeli startups and helping them grow into large US companies. Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3sEIYeIri_E. Find this and all ep…

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Episode #85 Building startups on SalesForce – Place RevOps automation and connectivity 50:04

11M ago50:04

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Episode #85 Building startups on SalesForce – Place RevOps automation and connectivity Fireside with a VC talking to Brandon Metcal, CEO of Place, aboutRevOps (revenue operations) to solve financial forecasting and cash management with sales starting in 2020. Also discussing automating and synchronizing sales to finance, to human resources and othe…

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#84 Flipping Your Business into the United States w/ Roger Royse 25:55

12M ago25:55

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Fireside with a VC discussing flipping your business into a US Delaware C corporation from outside of the US. Many startups and teams are born in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, Africa, LatAm, Canada and everywhere and need to consider if they should flip to the US and if yes, technically how to do it. Considerations on attracting new investo…

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#83, Aiden software automation & cybersecurity SaaS company for enterprises 39:22

1y ago39:22

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Fireside with a VC discussing how technology has evolved from mainframe-dumb terminal architecture to client-server architecture and making sure that all the right software is on each endpoint, making sure each endpoint is configured correctly, quickly, and efficiently, making sure cybersecurity attacks do not happen, and if they do rapidly rebuild…

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#82, Understanding pre & post SAFEs, convertible notes vs priced rounds with Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, WilmerHale 1:08:19

1y ago1:08:19

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#82, Understanding pre & post SAFEs, convertible notesvs priced rounds with Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, WilmerHale Fireside with a VC is hosting a series of discussions on specific legal topics with the best lawyers from Silicon Valley and around the world. This episode is designed to help founders, VCs, advisors and supporters of startups understa…

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Host Joni B. Cole Talks Toxic Feedback (the book) 29:00

1y ago29:00

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In this topsy turvy episode, host Joni B. Cole finds herself on the other side of the interview, as her friend and fellow writer Drew Rockwell asks her about her acclaimed book for writers, Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive. www.jonibcole.comBy Joni B. Cole

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#81, Sway Ventures, Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner 1:14:08

1y ago1:14:08

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Fireside with a VC hosting Brian Nugent, Founding General Partnerof Sway Ventures at Professor Romans’ class on VC at Chapman University. Discussing a wide range of topics including: · Brian’s path to VC from Cisco to startups to venturecapital. · Career advice for junior and senior folks tobreak into a career in venture capital. · ESG, women and m…

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Dr. Judy Mikovits/ Covid Vaccines Is A Synthetic Virus/ Detoxing 1:46:59

1y ago1:46:59

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Dr. Judy explains what the RNA Covid vaccine is and how to detoxify your body from it and other viruses.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yurjourneyandrewlove/support

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#80, neonVest – how to instantly get Zooms with VCs & Superchargers 57:19

1y ago57:19

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Firesidewith a VC speaking with Aakash Shah and Surya Viswanathan, the founders ofneonVest, how their platform is democratizing access to VCs for early-stagestartups. NeonVest allows founders to instantly get Zooms with VCs, successfulfounder operators and other superchargers to help with funding, refining andimproving their pitch, company strategy…

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#79, Band of Angels - Round table discussion with one of Silicon Valley’s most active angel groups 21:32

1y ago21:32

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Fireside with a VC diving into a round table discussion with The Band of Angels, one of the oldest and most active angel groups in Silicon Valley covering the current seed and early stage investing and fundraising market environment and conditions. How are valuations and terms changing, the importance of QSBS tax and when to use priced rounds, conv…

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#78, Jack Guedj, Band of Angels, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest & most active angel groups 1:06:45

1y ago1:06:45

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#78, Jack Guedj, Band of Angels, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest& most active angel groups Fireside with a VC diving into current seed and early stageinvesting and fundraising market environment and conditions. How are valuations and terms changing, the importance of QSBS tax and when to use convertible notes and the dangers of SAFE notes. Next epis…

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Exclusive Full Interview: Tim Savage On Surviving R. Kelly, Joycelyn Savage and Victims. #RKelly 1:10:27

1y ago1:10:27

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Tim Savage full interview about R. Kelly and how it all begins.Andrew Love Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AndrewLuvTimothy Savage IG: https://www.instagram.com/timothytsavage/Terry A O' Neal Hogan : https://www.instagram.com/terryaoneal/#RKelly #freerkelly--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yurjourneyandrewlove/support…

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#77, Andrew Romans talking startup valuations and the current environment for VC financings w/ generative AI w/ US Angels Group 57:35

1y ago57:35

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Episode #77 of Fireside with a VC, talking startup valuations and the current environment for VC financings as well as the impact of generative AI on startups, angels, VCs and LPs with U.S. Angels, one of the most active investor groups in the U.S. and an LP in 7BC Venture Capital. · How to price the pre-money valuation for a startup? · How much ca…

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#74, Charles Hudson, Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures on Generative AI 53:22

1y ago53:22

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Episode#74, Charles Hudson, Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures on Generative AI *Discussing how investors and founders can think about new generativeAI startups that appear to have build products in days or weeks compared toyears. *What this new technology means for developing moats or barriers toentry for startups that can create working product…

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#76, Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares tokenizing real estate assets 36:07

1y ago36:07

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Episode #76, Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares tokenizing real estate assets · Discussing tokenization of real estate and other assets via white label solutions as well as launching their own real estate crypto exchange in the US and Europe enabling users to not touch crypto on or off ramps with everything working legally, licensed and compliantly.…

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#75, Hadley Harris, cofounder, ENIAC Ventures, NYC Seed Fund 40:42

1y ago40:42

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Episode #75, Hadley Harris, cofounder, ENIAC Ventures, NYC Seed Fund · Discussing strategies for Seed investment as well as Opportunity Funds for doubling down in winners. · How much diversification is required for optimal risk mitigation and impact of winners to fund results · Evolution of the New York startup ecosystem over the past 13 years sinc…

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Episode #73, VC Insight Panel, 7BC Event NYC March 7 2023 52:12

1+ y ago52:12

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Recording of the VC Insight Panel at the sold out 7BC Venture Capital event in New York City at Pillsbury March 7, 2023. VC Insight Panel Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners, Senior Advisor, Pritzker Group Wiz, Chief Astronaut, Spacecadet Ventures, The Marketing VC Jonatha…

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Episode #72, Krishna Srinivas, cofounder, LiveOak Venture Partners 50:41

1+ y ago50:41

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Episode #72, Krishna Srinivas, cofounder, LiveOak Venture Partners on Fireside with a VC Ahead of SXSW very happy to share our podcast with one of Austin’s VC OGs discussing: Ten lessons on entrepreneurship from summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro with his wife and kids 100% all-in on Texas, early stage, tech and tech-enabled services, Seed to Series A entry…

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Episode #71, Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) 1:08:51

1+ y ago1:08:51

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Episode #71, Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) on Fireside with a VC Meet Andrea at 7BC's in-person event in New York City on March 7, 2023 - https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com. 101 lesson on secondaries and the secondary market Complexities of how secondaries work from the perspective of founders and investors s…

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Episode #70, John Frankel, cofounder, ff Venture Capital in New York, Poland & Ukraine 1:02:49

1+ y ago1:02:49

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Episode #70, John Frankel, cofounder, ff Venture Capital on Fireside with a VC discussing: · Learnings from Goldman Sachs applied to VC · Launching the largest VC fund in Ukraine · Launching a VC fund in Poland · Managing the 6 VC funds based in New York, but investing across the US · What percentage of companies get to $100m of ARR and how this dr…

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Episode #69, Martin Tobias, founder, Incisive Ventures in Seattle on Fireside with a VC 56:52

1+ y ago56:52

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Episode #69, Martin Tobias, founder, Incisive Ventures in Seattle on Fireside with a VC discussing: · How is Seattle different from Silicon Valley, Austin, or New York startup VC ecosystems? · Getting away the very last IPO as CEO before the dot-com crash and lessons learned and how these apply to today’s climate. · Old days of Microsoft and becomi…

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Episode #68, Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners & Advisor to the Pritzker Family Office 54:49

1+ y ago54:49

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Episode #68, Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners & Advisor to the Pritzker Family Office discussing: · The Alpha model to partner with Seed to Series A VC funds to invest in their pro-rata growth rounds of top winners and share carry with the Seed to Series A VC funds. · Dynamics of early-stage VC funds deciding to double down or create…

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Former Bishop Darrell Nichols On UFO Encounter ,Aliens and Magic 1:43:59

1+ y ago1:43:59

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Former Bishop Darrell Nichols talks about his contact with a UFO, aliens and magick.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yurjourneyandrewlove/support

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Episode #67, Mike Smerklo, cofounder, Next Coast Ventures, $600m+ Austin-based VC 50:50

1+ y ago50:50

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Episode #67, Mike Smerklo, cofounder, Next Coast Ventures, $600m+ Austin-based VC and author on Fireside with a VC discussing: · Moving from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas · Cofounding a VC in Austin, Texas with over $600m in AUM focused on Series A and B rounds within 6 years currently investing out of a $310m Fund IV closed in early 2022 · Timi…

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Episode #66, Mark diTargiani, explaining Venture Debt & Relationships, Pacific Western Bank 1:29:01

1+ y ago1:29:01

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Episode #66, Mark diTargiani, Venture Debt and Startup Banking, Pacific Western Bank on Fireside with a VC. Mark presented to Andrew Romans’ venture capital class at Chapman University as a guest speaker discussing: · Explaining how Venture Debt works, when it makes sense and when it does not make sense. · Startup banking and general advice on sta…

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