First Check, with Venture Capitalist Tim McLoughlin

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First Check, with Venture Capitalist Tim McLoughlin Podcast

Welcome to First Check, a podcast so you can learn how to be the next great venture capitalist or angel investor. As a partner at Cofounders Capital, host of First Check Tim McLoughlin has invested over $43 million in startups, and on this podcast, Tim shares what works and what doesn’t, so you can be ready to write your first check.

  1. Allstacks' Hersh Tapadia: The Investment We Shouldn't Have Passed On

    07/07/2021

    Allstacks' Hersh Tapadia: The Investment We Shouldn't Have Passed On

    As an investor, sometimes you make the deals you shouldn't have, and sometimes you pass on the deals that you wish you had executed on. For Tim McLoughlin and Cofounders Capital, they had the chance to invest in Hersh Tapadia's startup Allstacks, but after a thorough dilligence process, they ultimately passed. Find out why, and why Tim might be regretting that decision.

    37 min
  2. From the largest European tech exit ever to venture capital, with Tobi Walter

    23/06/2021

    From the largest European tech exit ever to venture capital, with Tobi Walter

    As an entrepreneur, Tobi Walter was part of the largest European tech exit ever, then raised both angel and VC money with his company Shoeboxed. After that exit, instead of the 100 hour weeks and sleeping-in-the-office grind, Tobi decided to take his startup expertise to the dark side - venture capital. On the show, he gives inside information on what it’s like to be on both the founder side and the VC side.

    37 min
  3. Questions you should be asking investors, with The Looma Project's Cole Johnson

    09/06/2021

    Questions you should be asking investors, with The Looma Project's Cole Johnson

    Back in 2018, The Looma Project landed a $375K seed-round investment from Cofounders Capital, and since then, over 40 investors have seen the company's potential and invested in both its success and CEO Cole Johnson's vision for the future. Today, Cole talks all about the dynamics of investor relations.

    30 min
  4. Investing in the Southeast, with Venturesouth's Charlie Banks

    26/05/2021

    Investing in the Southeast, with Venturesouth's Charlie Banks

    VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that operates in 16 locations across the Southeast, has over 350 members, and has invested over $50M into 80+ companies. Today, managing partner Charlile Banks talks about the value of being in a portfolio company rather than a solo investor, taking the community approach to investing in the Southeast, and the feeling he got from writing his first check.

    33 min

  5. 19/05/2021

    The top 3 questions to ask while reviewing a company’s financial model

    How do you truly dig deep into a founder's financial projections? Tim McLoughlin has seen hundreds of pitches, and he's teaching you how to level up your due diligence in analyzing whether or not a company fits your portfolio or is a major risk. Grab this free guide by signing up for our mailing list at www.FirstCheckPodcast.com!

    3 min
  6. Stat Smack, Cockroaches, and a $50K Grant, with Wrangle's Adam Smith

    05/05/2021

    Stat Smack, Cockroaches, and a $50K Grant, with Wrangle's Adam Smith

    Adam Smith is the co-founder of Wrangle.io, which was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from NC IDEA - and is on its way to being a game changing technology. Adam has had an interesting entrepreneurial path, especially to sports and fantasy sports fans out there. Today on the show, Adam and Tim talk about Adam’s new venture and hearing “no” from investors almost a hundred times, the responsibility of a founder to truly know when the money will run out and when they will need more money, and what entrepreneurs need to be looking for in their first hires - and what investors should want from them too.

    43 min
  7. The gender gap in investing, and what Robbie Hardy is doing about it

    21/04/2021

    The gender gap in investing, and what Robbie Hardy is doing about it

    Robbie Hardy is an entrepreneur and angel investor who's on a personal mission to fix the gender gap in funding - you know the one, that women-led startups get only 2% of venture capital. As the founder and chair of xElle Ventures, she's doing something about it. Today, Robbie talks about what all investors can do to help solve the problem, what she looks for in founders, and what mistakes she sees entrepreneurs making all the time.

    31 min

  8. 14/04/2021

    Techstars Mentor Madness and Hundreds of Pitch Meetings, Zoee (formally SoleLife) CEO Nichole Lowe

    Nichole Lowe, CEO and founder of Zoee (formally SoleLife), has pitched to hundreds of potential investors, including Cofounders Capital. Most of the time, those meetings didn’t result in a check, and Nichole was left to look forward to the next one...and then the next one. Today Nichole talks about the value she sees as an entrepreneur from the interactions that didn’t work out, what she’s learned from refining her pitch so many times, and why she’s still interacting with Tim - even though Cofounders was one of the investors who politely declined.

    29 min
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Welcome to First Check, a podcast so you can learn how to be the next great venture capitalist or angel investor. As a partner at Cofounders Capital, host of First Check Tim McLoughlin has invested over $43 million in startups, and on this podcast, Tim shares what works and what doesn’t, so you can be ready to write your first check.

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