Silicon Valley Startup Podcas‪t‬ Founders Floor

This episode is Part 2 of a Workshop with well-known Silicon Valley investor, Bill Reichert. Bill illustrates exactly how entrepreneurs can be the three ‘c’s to impress investors - clear, compelling and credible. He also covers a really important part of investor discussions - the lies, or white lies, a founder should never tell to an investor!

In this episode, well-known Silicon Valley investor, Bill Reichert runs a startup workshop for founders. Bill is the Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, which he co-founded with early Apple employees, Guy Kawasaki.

This is Part 1 of a 2-part workshop, where Bill teaches entrepreneurs how to ‘wow’ investors. In his signature unorthodox fashion, he covers what he thinks about storytelling, templates for pitches and reports, and how to reach an investor’s heart.

In Part 2 of this 2-part episode, we talk to Andrew Filev, the founder and CEO of Wrike, a cloud-based work management platform and one of the fastest growing companies in North America.

Andrew discusses:

- How the company behaved differently post-funding rounds
- Pitfalls founders should look out for after they raise a funding round
- How he approaches attracting and retaining quality employees
- The future of collaborative work management with increasing numbers of remote workers

In Part 1 of this 2-part episode, we talk to Andrew Filev, the founder and CEO of Wrike, a cloud-based work management platform and one of the fastest growing companies in North America according to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 List in 2017.

Andrew discusses:

- The reason for Wrike’s growth
- The immigration path from Russia to Silicon Valley
- How he came up with the idea for Wrike
- How and why he decided to bootstrap the company and how successful that was.

Among many others.

In this episode, we talk to Silicon Valley investors, Jim Connor, currently with Sand Hill Angels and Nick Triantos, an investor at Ignition Partners, with 20 years experience in the industry, from being a successful technical founder right through to his current role as an investor.

Our investors discuss:

- The characteristics that make a successful entrepreneur
- What’s involved in the sometimes harsh but rewarding reality of being a startup founder
- The best way to reach out to investors

This is part 2 of our 2 part episode with Santi Subtovksky, investor at Emergence Capital. Santi has recently experienced a lot of success as one of the early investors in Zoom.

Santi discusses:

- Critical metrics
- Going from seed to Series A
- The ideal CEO profile
- Future trends for B2B and SaaS startups
- The factors that make startups stand out
- Thoughts on how startups can approach valuation
- Patterns with pricing models


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