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Venture Capital Episodes

June 12, 2022

Hiring fundraising advisors. By Martin Hall, TEN Capital Network

Hall Martin , Founder and CEO at TEN Capital Network that raised over $900 million for its clients, in this episode talks about hiring fundraising advisors who can connect you to the right capital. We spoke about different re...

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May 20, 2022

Running a company out of Ukraine and preparing to raise. By Alyona My…

Alyona Mysko, CEO & Founder at Fuelfinance in this episode talks about the story of her company and the effects that the war has on it and its future plans. Hint: no giving up in sight and Fuelfinance is preparing to raise soon while expanding!

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May 12, 2022

Building EVERYTHING in-house and raising. By Sharmin Ali

Sharmin Ali , Founder and CEO of Instoried tells her story of helping others write good stories. In this episode we go in-depth into the reasons why Instoried built all their tech in-house from scratch and how they use it as ...

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May 1, 2022

What is a down-round and how to survive one? By Russ Wilcox

Russ Wilcox , Partner at PillarVC talks about his experience running startups himself. Throughout his career he raised 10 times and 3 times these were down-rounds. In this episode Russ explains what down-rounds are bad, how t...

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April 1, 2022

The story of three pivots and growth management. By Koby Conrad from …

Koby Conrad, Head of Growth at Rupa Health and Founder of Channels of Growth talks about his experience building a company and pivoting 3 times. He also explains what growth management looks like and who should be dealing wit...

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March 8, 2022

Raise through an SPV-syndicated round. What does that mean? Jeremy Ne…

Jeremy Neilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Assure in this episode explains how SPVs work and what they are, how founders can use them to make their rounds easier and what are the expected costs of creating an SPV and syndicating your own round.

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March 3, 2022

Raising and selling - no bootstrapping, why? By Nick Desai

Nick Desai - Founder and CEO at HeyRenee in this episode talks about how he started 5 companies and how many of them actually made it. He also explains why he chose to raise money from VCs for all his companies and how that d...

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Feb. 22, 2022

Fundraising for non-profit is easier than for a for-profit company? H…

Dylan Kendall - candidate for Los Angeles City Council District in 2022 and a Founder of a for-profit and non-profit in this episode shares her experience of being a founder in Los Angeles. She explains how did it happen that...

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Feb. 13, 2022

Can you get fired from your own company? Jeb Banner explains how gove…

Jeb Banner , CEO and Co-Founder of Boardable explains how the governing boards really work and how founders can make sure that they don't get fired from the companies that they have started. He also spoke about the first step...

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Feb. 5, 2022

How to invest in wine and how Vinovest itself raised money. By Anthon…

Anthony Zhang , Co-founder and CEO at Vinovest talks about how his company helps "regular" people invest in wine - an asset class that was previously only accessible to the wealthy people with free time on their hands. He als...

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Jan. 26, 2022

Lawyer free and charge free fundraising tool - Party Round. By Jordi …

Jordi Hays, Co-Founder & CEO at Party Round in this episode talks about the legal side of fundraising and how it looks like now VS what it actually should be. We've also discussed the need for actual lawyers in some fundraisi...

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Jan. 20, 2022

Build a financial organization in 3 weeks. By Duy Vo at Productfy

Duy Vo , Founder and CEO at Productfy talks about being a sole founder and yet having great Co-Founders (in a way) who have helped him lead the company to the success instead of selling early on. He also explains how Productf...

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Dec. 5, 2021

Raising $200k through a Twitter post. By Alex Simon with Elude

Alex Simon , CEO Co-Founder of Elude in this episode talks about the new strategies that modern founders can employ while fundraising for their startups. We also spoke about some key things that founders should have on hand b...

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Nov. 22, 2021

Charity fundraising and non-profits. By Amy Malin from Trueheart

Amy Malin , Co-Founder at Trueheart talks about how by making simple search requests you give money to non-profits instead of monopolistic corporate giants. We spoke about how fundraising for non-profits looks like and how is...

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Nov. 13, 2021

DocSend - how increasing prices increased conversions. By Russ Heddle…

Russ Heddleston, Co-Founder and CEO talks about the story of DocSend and how the decision to increase their prices led to an increased conversion rate for their customers and how exactly this magic worked. We've also discussed how DocSend became so essential for the startup founders and how was the…

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Nov. 5, 2021

Fundraising for an open-source startup, how do you explain it to inve…

Michel Tricot Co-Founder at Airbyte talks about raising capital for an open-source startup. We talked about how Airbyte plans to monetize and how they managed to get into Y-Combinator. We also touched onto the effect that a g...

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Oct. 16, 2021

You don't want luck-based marketing - Karl Hughes about proper conten…

Karl Hughes, Founder and CEO at Draft.dev talks about content marketing, specifically focused on targeting developers. We discussed some strategies that can be applied and budget for good content marketing along with some use-cases.

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Oct. 6, 2021

2X valuation in 4 months - how and why? Kirk Marple about Unstruk Data

Kirk Marple , Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data talks about their fundraising round and how they doubled their valuation in less than 4 months. We also spoke about some useful techniques that can help founders fundraise. Kirk's...

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Sept. 28, 2021

What is post-seed, how is it different from bridge round and is it re…

Paul Martino , founder at Bullpen capital talks about investing in founders who are "falling out of pattern", making post-seed investments and how such investments are different from bridge rounds. We also spoke about how fou...

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Sept. 19, 2021

Gathering feedback to build the company on - the story of Till Financ…

Taylor Burton, Co-Founder of Till Financial talks about the creation and fundraising of it and how they have gathered analyzed and later presented the feedback to the investors. Taylor also touched onto the major problems that they faced while building the company and some mistakes they've made ear…

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Sept. 11, 2021

RSUs VS stock options - why do stock options suck so much? Explained …

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 s...

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Sept. 4, 2021

Selling complex tech to investors and customers - how Daloopa made it…

Thomas Li, Co-Founder and CEO at Daloopa talks about explaining complicated tech in simple terms and selling it to investors and buyers. We also discussed deep tech in greater detail and who are the primary targets for fundraising in these cases. We also touched onto the importance of listening to …

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Aug. 28, 2021

3Bn fund - Viola, largest VC in Israel, how do they operate and what …

Omry Ben David, General Partner at Viola Ventures talks about investing in Israel and Israeli founders all over the globe and why it seems to be working than most other demographics. We also discussed how does Viola Ventures work and why is it spread over 4 funds and how do they cooperate.

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Aug. 22, 2021

Does a Stanford degree help while raising money for your company? By …

Andrew Milich , Co-Founder at Skiff talks about the importance of college education while building a company and raising funding. He also talked about how investors reacted to him as the first time founder and how it affected...

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