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20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture

Apr 8, 2019 · 42:25

✨ NEA's Dayna Grayson discusses sourcing, selecting, and winning investment deals.

42:25

20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted

Apr 5, 2019 · 37:21

✨ Boosted CEO Jeff Russakow emphasizes founder questions for investor selection.

Jeff Russakow

37:21

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals

Apr 1, 2019 · 32:41

✨ Garry Tan highlights the crucial role of seed investors in supporting founders.

32:41

20VC: Buffer's Joel Gascoigne on The Moment The Founder Is No Longer The Boss, The Questions Founders Must Ask Their VCs and Why We Need A Spectrum of Different Financing Mechanisms Other Than VC

Mar 29, 2019 · 32:09

✨ Buffer's Joel Gascoigne discusses the founder's shift from being 'the boss'.

32:09

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage

Mar 25, 2019 · 31:20

✨ Spark Capital's Alex Clayton details how growth investors source and win deals.

31:20

20VC: The Acceptable vs Unacceptable Risks To Take When Seed Investing, Why Loss Ratio Is Not A Consideration & Why Series A Is The Right Time To Establish A Board with Mike Hirshland, Co-Founder @ Resolute Ventures

Mar 18, 2019 · 24:52

✨ Resolute Ventures' Mike Hirshland defines acceptable vs. unacceptable seed investment risks.

Mike Hirshland

24:52

20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble

Mar 15, 2019 · 29:18

✨ Adam Pritzker explains why current consumer brand financing is flawed.

Adam Pritzker

29:18

20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

Mar 11, 2019 · 38:16

✨ Victoria Treyger shares insights on effectively coaching startup founders.

Victoria Treyger

38:16

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor

Mar 8, 2019 · 36:12

✨ Lambda School's Austen Allred views unemployment as an solvable optimization problem.

36:12

20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital

Mar 4, 2019 · 35:50

✨ Transitioning from founder to CEO requires strategic shifts.

Jeff Richards

35:50

20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop

Mar 1, 2019 · 33:15

✨ Optimize decision-making frameworks for efficiency.

Rob Sadow

33:15

20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware

Feb 25, 2019 · 33:18

✨ The future of car ownership is evolving rapidly.

33:18

20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It

Feb 22, 2019 · 41:30

✨ Measure product-market fit using specific metrics.

41:30

20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination

Feb 18, 2019 · 30:40

✨ Future venture investments may lie outside Silicon Valley.

30:40

20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To

Feb 15, 2019 · 26:39

✨ Mission-driven isn't the only path to a large business.

26:39

20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room

Feb 11, 2019 · 30:55

✨ Seed investing is a distinct asset class from venture.

30:55

20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6

Feb 8, 2019 · 33:04

✨ Understand what makes top venture firms successful.

Anjney Midha

33:04

20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto

Feb 4, 2019 · 36:53

✨ VC funding can force specific company trajectories.

36:53

20VC: How To Build Meaningful Relationships With Your Investors, 4 Key Elements CEOs Must Focus On In Scale Mode & How Top Optimise Leadership Team Dynamics with Joel Flory, Founder & CEO @ VSCO

Feb 1, 2019 · 31:20

✨ Build strong, meaningful investor relationships.

Your Investors

31:20

20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture

Jan 28, 2019 · 41:24

✨ Josh Kopelman discusses pricing as both art and science.

41:24

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