Sid Viswanathan Co-Founder & President at Truepill talks about raising a Series D and how it is different from earlier rounds. We've also touched onto the story of how prior to Truepill, Sid founded CardMunch, a business-card scanning app that was acquired by LinkedIn soon after its founding. Sid's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidviswanathan Truepill's site: www.truepill.com And of course, link to our course on fundraising at 70% discount (only until the 15th of January): https://bit.ly...
Stephen Cobbe , co-founder and CEO at Opal talks about his journey with Opal, ups and downs and how to handle them. He also shares some recommendations on how to find a good co-founder and shares his personal experience in that field along with two great books. Stephen's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scobbe/ Opal's website: https://opal.dev/ Two great books in question: 1. Never Split the Difference: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805 2. The ...
Brett Goldstein , Co-Founder at Launch House talks about focusing on the new values instead of pushing old shit through accelerators and how exactly he approaches it. We spoke a lot about how the fundraising field has changed over the past years and why many accelerators are going obsolete with founders needing a better alternative. We also discussed some of the fundraising tactics that Launch House implements to help its participants fundraise. Brett's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgol...
Casey Fenton , co-founder at the legendary Couchsurfing and currently founder and CEO at Upstock.io talks about what RSUs are and how are they different from standard stock options. We also discussed why exactly Casey hates stock options so much and what is so wrong about them. And of course we talked about Casey's experience with couchsurfing and its transition from a non-profit into a for-profit company. Upstock: https://www.upstock.io/ Casey's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyfenton...
Christopher Lustrino , Founder & CEO at KingsCrowd in this educational episode talks about equity crowdfunding, what are the major pitfalls in it and how to avoid them. He also gave a brief step-by-step guide on raising money through equity crwodfunding and shared some of the knowledge about the process that he gained while raising money for KingsCrowd. Checklist: 1) Be prepared for the time frame: 4-12 weeks to go live on equity crowdfunding platform. 2) Determine how much you want to raise and...
Scott Krivokopich, Managing Partner at 1982 Ventures talks about qualifying questions that you need to ask your investors in order to understand who they are, how they work with other founders, and what to expect from them when hard times come. We also speak about 1982 Ventures, what they invest in and what their decision making process looks like.
This educational episode is about constructing financial models on early stages - what exactly do you need to have, what do your investors expect to see on the pitch deck and what are the major mistakes that founders make while constructing financial models? All this is discussed in this short educational episode with Rami Essaid from Finmark.
Nick Miceli, Senior Tech Lead/Engineering Manager at Google talks about assembling the right team, choosing to go remote or hiring within your city, going through a dev-shop or contractors and other choices that the startup founder has to make while building the product. We also spoke about the major problems team managers face and how to deal with them.
Shruti Gandhi, General Partner and Founding Engineer at Array Ventures talks about how she managed to get into the VC space and what are the most valuable skills needed to do so. We also discussed investing in Deep tech and the big problems that it's solving and how Shruti approaches it.
Sandy Huang, Head of Product Growth at Alexa Mobile, talks about understanding your customers early on, running individual customer interviews, releasing surveys and doing the customer development in a lean way. We also spoke about how larger companies do that and when a founder needs to hire a professional to do the job.
Ryan Zhang and Mi Tu, Partners & Co-Founders at Standard Capital L.P. explain how do hedge funds work and how can startup founders raise money from them. We also talked about investing in securities vs investing in startups.
This episode is featuring the team members of Fundraising Radio. I (your host - Konstantin Dubovitskiy) answer the FAQs that I get and the other team members present themselves and talk about the reasons why they joined FR, what they do here and what they plan to do in the future.
This is the 7th educational episode by Fundraising Radio and in this episode Kristina Subbotina, corporate and securities attorney at Ross Law Group explains what are the major mistakes that founders make while hiring new employes.
In this educational episode Nathan Beckord, the founder and CEO of Foundersuite explains how his software can be used by founders to accelerate and make their fundraising easier.
How to assign stock to your employees? How to distribute it among the co-founders? How to store stocks and keep track of the cap table. We even touched onto paying employees through debt and employees purchasing stocks through forgiving debt. Epic educational episode on the legal side of the fundraising with Yev Muchnik, founder of Launch Legal. Educational episode of Fundraising Radio #4
2nd Educational episode on Fundraising Radio: a precise step-by-step guide on making sales through LinkedIn for b2b model by Yulia Shin - experienced saleswoman working for a tech focused company in Dubai.
In this episode of Fundraising Radio we had an unusual guest - Sophie Alcorn, a well known immigration lawyer in Silicon valley and Founding Partner & Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law. This episode focuses on how to move to the US if you are a startup founder or an investor, emphasizing the O-1 Visa and all the requirements for it. If you are a US citizen or have a green card, I suggest you skipping the first 20 minutes of the episode, since later on we talked about approaching investors, incorporating and seeking funds in the Valley.
