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Culture: Founders, Entrepreneurs & Innovators Charlie Stephens
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5.0 • 30 Ratings
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Conversations with Business Founders, Innovators & Entrepreneurs on how their Journey has Inspired, Created & Evolved CULTURE.
Hear the background of these leaders, pick up on tips for growth, lessons learned, raising capital, company culture and their words to live by.
Get Inspired.
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PrimeTime VC Ep30
Top VCs MatchUp: Elliott Robinson Bessemer Ventures Partners, Ashley Aydin Vamos Ventures, Jason Scott ANIM Fund and Samantha Rodriguez Google for Startups.
Venture Capitalists debate the state of venture funding, Ai wave, Cloud computing, tips for the best founder intro calls, moving the needle on driving more $$ to diverse founders & funders, habits of the best founders, unpopular investment verticals, and Elon Vs Zuck!!
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PrimeTime VC Ep29
Top VCs MatchUp: Nihal Mehta Partner at Eniac Ventures, Nia Johnson Investor, Olivia O’Sullivan Forum Ventures and Ollen Douglass VC & Board Advisor (Formerly Motley Fool Ventures)
Investors debate:
What should investors consider when making a bet on Ai during this frenzied environment?
How should founders structure their fundraise?
Will VCs start using ChatGPT or Google’s BARD as an investment tool?
How important is it for founders to understand exactly how they will build a defensibility moat around their product at the pre seed / seed stage?
Cap table: What’s the ideal number to allocate for an employee option pool, why is it important and do you require the pool to be implemented before your investment?
bet a billion on anything, where you placing your chips?
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PrimeTime VC Ep28 NYC
Top Venture Capitalists Elana Dickman at Red Beard Ventures, Saka Nuru at Funnder, Megan Ananian at H/L Ventures & Pete Mathias at Alumni Venutes matched up April 13th to debate the following Topics:
+ Current VC Mindset w/ SVB Disrupting Market Conditions
+ Most Exciting Verticals to Invest In & New Unicorns to look out for
+ Advising Portfolio Companies on how to handle Competition
+ PreSeed to Seed, What are most important Hires?
+ How to Navigate your Cap Table
+ What Role did VCs play in SVB debacle & what are the Long term Effects?
+ What New Jobs will be Born from ChatGPT
+ What are the Best StartUp Analogies /Stories for Success
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Soraya Darabi, General Partner at Trail Mix Ventures
Soraya Darabi, General Partner & Founder of Trail Mix Ventures an early stage investment firm focused on the future of living well. We talk through qualifying startup investments, the process of raising capital & traits of successful founders. As a 3x Mentor of the Year by Techstars, we discuss the secrets mentorship & finding a good mentor. Advice for female founders, tips for networking & the opportunities open for collaboration.
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Kai Bond, Courtside Ventures
Kai is a partner at Courtside Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on sports, fitness and gaming. Kai talks about his past work as 3x Founder, working at Comcast Ventures leading investments focused on investing underrepresented founders, Hear his process in qualifying startups, founders who stand out, building teams, hiring to motivate & align company culture. He explains thoughts on raising capital, building a network & metrics for performance. Learn the opportunities that Courtside is looking to collaborate on & his words to live by.
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Leaders Live VC Investor Panel ( Angel -IPO )
Venture Capital Investor Panel, from Angel to IPO w/ speakers
Nikita Singareddy Investor @RRE Ventures | Kunal Mehta Principle @Hearst Ventures & Mario Gabriele @Charge Ventures Panel Presented by Entre CEO Michael Marra
Talking Covid-19 Impact on investing, raising capital & how to best strategies approach investors. What Qualities they look for in successful founders, networking & build strong relationships. Technology, healthcare tech, transportation mobility, esports and religious tech? Yes its all here!
Mario's Newsletter: https://readthegeneralist.com
Kunal’s Book https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Genius-Venture-Capital-Betting-ebook/dp/B07YCZH3NS
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Customer Reviews
Great show!
Charlie highlights all aspects of entrepreneurship and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!
If You Know, You Know
Charlie is as sincere and driven as they come. If you’re fortunate enough to connect with him for coffee, lunch, or a cocktail, you’ll quickly understand how genuine he is as a professional and how considerate he is as a person. He leads with value. Proud to call him a friend. Very apprecaitive for these podcasts. Stay great.
Awesome Podcast!!
Charlie, host of the Culture podcast, highlights all aspects of entrepreneurship, business and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!