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The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified Nick Moran | Angel Investor | Startup Advisor | Venture Capitalist
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4.9 • 235 Ratings
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The podcast dedicated to demystifying Venture Capital. Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti interview VC's & Startup Founders and on how they build great technology startups.
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Investor Stories 288: Strange & Unusual (Eylath, Ross, Hershenson)
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
Nadav Eylath Kristi Ross Mar Hershenson
Each investor describes the most unusual situation or pitch that they've encountered as an investor.
The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran, General Partner of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
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Founding Unicorn Startup Alloy, How to Scale a Go To Market Strategy, and The Next 10 Years in FinTech (Laura Spiekerman)
Laura Spiekerman of Alloy joins Nate to discuss What Does the Future of Fintech Hold? Insights on Growth, Fraud, and Community Banking. In this episode we cover:
Alloy's mission and the role it plays in fintech The importance of community banks in fintech design and development Challenges of scaling a go-to-market business in fintech Laura's insights on the future of fintech, including concerns about fraud and blockchain technology The impact of fed now on fraud prevention in fintech -
Investor Stories 287: Lessons Learned (Ross, Viswanathan, Alon)
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
Kristi Ross Ravi Viswanathan Oz Alon
Each investor illustrates a critical lesson learned about startup investing and how it's changed their approach.
The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran, General Partner of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
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Key Drivers in Cloud and Security, Wiz's Unconventional GTM Decision, Insights on Earnings Predictability, and Lessons from Datadog, Discord, Slack and Coalition (Shardul Shah)
Shardul Shah of Index Ventures joins Nick to discuss Assessing an entrepreneur’s imagination. What are the metrics and characteristics that demonstrate product market fit for Early-stage investing? (Shardul Shah). In this episode we cover:
Outsourcing security risk and the need to outsource risk.
The Importance of Imaginative Entrepreneurs
How do you think about the trade-offs of a services business?
Metrics and characteristics that demonstrate product market fit.
The evaluation criteria Shardul uses in evaluating companies.
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Investor Stories 286: Why I Passed (Lefcourt, Hershenson, Viswanathan)
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
Jenny Lefcourt Mar Hershenson Ravi Viswanathan Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.
The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran, General Partner of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
Learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our Website. Also, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter! -
Bootstrapping to a Billion Dollar Exit, The History of Options Trading, Competing Against Robinhood, and How to Build a Brokerage Content Machine (Kristi Ross)
Kristi Ross of tastytrade joins Nick to discuss Bootstrapping to a Billion Dollar Exit, The History of Options Trading, Competing Against Robinhood, and How to Build a Brokerage Content Machine. In this episode we cover:
Bootstrapping to a Billion Chicago Trading in the 90s ThinkorSwim, TCV, and Trading to Tastytrade Robinhood's Capital Intensive Strategy Using Media and Content to Build a Brokerage Powerhouse Missed a recent episode? Go to The Full Ratchet blog and catch up!
The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!
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The Definitive Podcast about Angel and Venture Investing
Nick Moran has done a truly remarkable job in creating and producing a consistently interesting and useful series that has become the contemporaneously historical record of the industry. His audience of the world’s leading angels and VCs listen to it religiously to keep up with people, funds and trends in the industry, and I’ve lost count of the number of times that I have followed up with business deals based on guests he has interviewed. If you want to truly know what is happening in the startup financing world, The Full Ratchet is a must-listen.
Great show!
Nick, host of the Full Ratchet podcast, highlights all aspects of tech startups 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!
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The Full Ratchet is such an incredible resource! I appreciate the variety of episodes, the super practical takeaways, and Nick's sincere humility to give all this amazing knowledge to the listeners for free. Truly a must listen.