Fireside with a VC

#103 Every CANADIAN startup or investor should listen to this episode! Fireside with a VC speaking with Kevin Kliman CEO of Humi discussing getting healthy lowering costs, maintaining growth, the tradeoffs to consider raising a growth VC funding round or not, and when to raise. Discussing Humi’s business which is processing $4.5bn CAD of payroll every 4.5 months. Humi is the payroll, benefits, & insurance platform for Canadian companies. Discussing Humi’s new product for the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentives where Canadian startups get 66% of tech employee salaries back in cash.

 

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Episode #102 Fireside with a VC speaking with Tige Savage who cofounded Revolution with Steve Case, founder of AOL – America Online, one of the biggest internet companies in history reaching a peak market cap of $200bn dominating email, internet connectivity, online news, and chat. Tige discusses all things venture capital with a wealth of multi-decade experience covering a wide area of topics on how to run a high-performing VC fund year over year and best practices on investing, governance, legals, portfolio construction, sectors, overall strategy, and today’s exit market.

 

Discussing the organization of Revolution with 1) Revolution Rise of the Rest – their $150m pre-seed fund, 2) Revolution Ventures – the $150m VC fund Tige manages with a concentrated 15 portfolio companies per fund, and 3) Revolution Growth which continues to invest in Series B and beyond. Discussed the pioneering thesis of investing across the US rather than being concentrated in the Silicon Valley, New York, Boston or other highly evolved tech corridors and why Washington DC matters.

 

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Fireside with a VC episode #101, Andrew Romans on The American Dreams Show with Alan Olsen discussing the future of venture capital covering Seed to Late Seed & Series A and Late Stage Growth VC and what has changed over the past few decades.

Alan Olsen is a fixture in Silicon Valley and cofounder of GROCO Family Office Advisors, Advisors to the Ultra Affluent and organizer of Legacy Builders. We Protect Our Clients’ Lifestyle & Resolve Complex Tax & Wealth Concerns

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Fireside with a VC episode #100 speaking with Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI investments at Citi Ventures, discussing how to determine startup valuations and how much capital a startup should raise. How much to raise should be driven by enough time runway to achieve the next key milestone to unlock the next funding round - be that product, revenue, users or other measurable business milestone KPIs. How the market is changing. Expect to need at least enough time 1) to reach the next business milestone and 2) to raise the next funding round. Expect at least 2 quarters to raise the next funding round in today’s market. How much dilution should a startup expect to take from each funding round ranging from pre-seed to late seed, Series A, B, C, D? How to tie expected exit valuations to today’s valuation? What can a realistic exit be in a good scenario and a bad scenario? What are expected exit multiples and discounted to today’s valuation with the consideration of dilution from future funding rounds? How to calculate future dilution or reserve strategies for various ownership target percentages. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) best practices at Citi Ventures – Citigroup. How to manage conflicts of interest as a strategic investor compared to a pure financial investor. How Citi Ventures can add value to startups across industry verticals.

 

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Fireside with a VC episode #99 speaking with Matthew Calhoun, director at Equity Trust, formerly Midland Trust Company, discussing the benefits of investing into alternative assets such as venture capital funds using your self-directed IRA dollars. What is a Self-Directed IRA and what is different from other retirement accounts? What are the requirements, terms, and cost for this, and how long does it take? Help boost your retirement with this wealth-building combination of tax-optimized retirement accounts maximizing the potential of higher returns with less volatility by adding private market venture capital investments to your tax-advantaged account.

We are happy to introduce our listeners to Matt or contact him directly: mcalhoun@midlandtrust.com.

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Fireside with a VC episode #98 speaking with Eric Ver Ploeg, Founding Partner of Tunitas Ventures about key data and trends in the US tech Series A fundraising environment as well as specifics about how much cash funding a startup should raise at pre-Seed, Late-Stage Seed and Series A as well as the many other considerations with regards to terms and legal structures do’s and don’ts.

 

Eric Ver Ploeg, is a VC veteran and runs Tunitas Ventures a focused seed stage investing firm that assists portfolio companies raise their Series A. Eric shares research and data on how the ratio of San Francisco Bay Area startups have a higher graduation rates of completing a Series A than startups in the rest of the country and how this multiple has been rising in recent years. Check out a link to a blogpost Eric released on this topic today: http://rb.gy/3fzl3p.

 

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Fireside with a VC episode #97 speaking with Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon $159m VC funding and founder and CEO of Yap, which Igor sold to Amazon which became the nucleus of Amazon’s Alexa & Fire TV. Pryon was the code name for Alexa. Discussing the evolution of humanity with AI, risks of AI, what we need or should expect with regulations, where innovation is happening, what are the OSI layers of the AI world, how the Fortune 500 will adopt or fail to adopt true AI, other relevant key industries ranging from nuclear power plants to healthcare and the military.  

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Fireside with a VC episode #96 speaking with Kristine Di Bacco, Partner at law firm Fenwick, discussing tough terms for startups in the context of flat and down rounds as well as more punishing terms for startups. What is common and expected in today’s market for up, flat, down rounds as well as convertible notes and SAFEs? Planning today’s current round in a way to set a precedent for the next funding round balancing valuations and terms. A deep dive on the difference between pre- and post-money SAFEs vs convertible notes, QSBS, etc. What to expect for typical governance, board of directors construction, etc. across multiple financings for startups. Secondaries in the bull market leading up the peak in 2021 compared to today’s 2024 market and what to expect for funding and exits in 2024 and beyond. How she cofounded and built Fenwick’s New York City office and is now back in Silicon Valley. Understanding differences and similarities in the New York compared to Silicon Valley ecosystems.

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Episode #95, Peter Berg, one of two Managing Directors leading M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund, discusses with Andrew Romans on Fireside with a VC how Microsoft is investing in early-stage startups in B2B SaaS, AI, web3/crypto, and gaming. How the $2.776 trillion dollar conglomerate can add value to startups in a way no other VC can match.

 

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Episode #94, Why is China the way it is, what’s happened, and how is China interacting with the rest of the world from a startup & VC perspective? Jonathan Bench, a China expert, practicing lawyer in the region, and active for over 20 years in the market, discusses with Andrew Romans on Fireside with a VC:

• What led up to the decoupling with China and how North American, European and Japanese companies will continue to do business with China?

• What led up to the current situation on a timeline of developments and ultimately Covid?

• The 5x+ increase in shipping costs and the impact of factory shutdowns in China during Covid on western minds for the future relationship with China.

• Supply chain establishment, management and support in China plus Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Mexico and western efforts to diversify and challenges to get out of China.

• How China is buying land and establishing factories in Mexico and how China is everywhere globally?

• How Chinese entrepreneurs are forced to operate within the communist party system and how to establish legitimacy with the rest of the outside world.

• Growth of the legal system in China with US companies now winning in the Chinese legal system which points to the growing legitimacy of the evolving Chinese legal system.

• Examples of Chinese companies trying to play by the rules and achieve legitimacy.

• The different cultural concepts of a signed contract being a final agreement or a stepping stone to an ongoing relationship where key terms are continuously changed

• What are the opportunities for the west to do business in China?

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Pix from Andrew Romans’ trips to China: https://photos.app.goo.gl/eSxTKBLnJNpBcKvu6.

Andrew Romans’ books published in Chinese:

The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (Chinese Edition): https://rb.gy/mwxp1p

Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (Chinese Edition): https://shorturl.at/dgwBJ

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Episode #93, VC Panel Part Questions from Audience @7BC San Francisco Event Nov. 14, 2023
VC Panel *Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures *Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital *Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital *Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures *Ben Levy, Cofounder, BootstrapLabs *Andrew Romans, General Partner, 7BC Venture Capital, Moderator Confidential videos available for 7BC Portfolio Company 7-Minute Presentations Ryan Welsh, cofounder & CEO, Kyndi - generative AI answer engine for enterprises ($42.8m funding to date) Delivering immediate, accurate, and trusted answers to enterprise users with the power of large language models. John Green, cofounder & CEO, Nada - Unlocking wealth with real-estate. Real estate FinTech ($11.4m funding to date) Nada's platform makes it possible for investors to own a piece of a top city’s home equity market with as little as $100 ("Cityfunds") and for homeowners to cash out home equity without the burden of taking on debt ("Homeshares"). Their platform brings this two-sided market together - delivering access to investors and liquidity to homeowners. Matthew Speitel, CFO, Umbra - Space and Earth based datasets for your defense, intelligence and analytics solutions. ($125m funding to date) We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. Eric Menees, cofounder & CEO, Fynn Credit, Solving America's skilled labor shortage ($11m equity & $25m debt raised to date) Fynn offers loan services for school students. Their loans are private loans, and they do not have the same terms, repayment options, or rates as those offered through federal loan programs, other private lenders, or school based financing options. https://www.7bc.vc/https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ Join the conversation, leave comments, and tell us what you think about these topics and this episode.

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Episode #92, Part I of the VC Panel at the 7BC Venture Capital San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023 *Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures *Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital *Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital *Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures *Ben Levy, Cofounder, BootstrapLabs *Andrew Romans, General Partner, 7BC Venture Capital, Moderator Confidential videos available for 7BC Portfolio Company 7-Minute Presentations Ryan Welsh, cofounder & CEO, Kyndi - generative AI answer engine for enterprises ($42.8m funding to date) Delivering immediate, accurate, and trusted answers to enterprise users with the power of large language models. John Green, cofounder & CEO, Nada - Unlocking wealth with real-estate. Real estate FinTech ($11.4m funding to date) Nada's platform makes it possible for investors to own a piece of a top city’s home equity market with as little as $100 ("Cityfunds") and for homeowners to cash out home equity without the burden of taking on debt ("Homeshares"). Their platform brings this two-sided market together - delivering access to investors and liquidity to homeowners. Matthew Speitel, CFO, Umbra - Space and Earth based datasets for your defense, intelligence and analytics solutions. ($125m funding to date) We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. Eric Menees, cofounder & CEO, Fynn Credit, Solving America's skilled labor shortage ($11m equity & $25m debt raised to date) Fynn offers loan services for school students. Their loans are private loans, and they do not have the same terms, repayment options, or rates as those offered through federal loan programs, other private lenders, or school based financing options. https://www.7bc.vc/https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ Join the conversation, leave comments, and tell us what you think about these topics and this episode.

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Episode #91, Part II of the VC Panel at the 7BC Venture Capital San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023 *Benjamin D. Black, Co-founder and Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures *Victoria Cheng, Partner, PruVen Capital *Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital *Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI/ML/Data Investments, Citi Ventures *Ben Levy, Cofounder, BootstrapLabs *Andrew Romans, General Partner, 7BC Venture Capital, Moderator Confidential videos available for 7BC Portfolio Company 7-Minute Presentations Ryan Welsh, cofounder & CEO, Kyndi - generative AI answer engine for enterprises ($42.8m funding to date) Delivering immediate, accurate, and trusted answers to enterprise users with the power of large language models. John Green, cofounder & CEO, Nada - Unlocking wealth with real-estate. Real estate FinTech ($11.4m funding to date) Nada's platform makes it possible for investors to own a piece of a top city’s home equity market with as little as $100 ("Cityfunds") and for homeowners to cash out home equity without the burden of taking on debt ("Homeshares"). Their platform brings this two-sided market together - delivering access to investors and liquidity to homeowners. Matthew Speitel, CFO, Umbra - Space and Earth based datasets for your defense, intelligence and analytics solutions. ($125m funding to date) We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. Eric Menees, cofounder & CEO, Fynn Credit, Solving America's skilled labor shortage ($11m equity & $25m debt raised to date) Fynn offers loan services for school students. Their loans are private loans, and they do not have the same terms, repayment options, or rates as those offered through federal loan programs, other private lenders, or school based financing options. https://www.7bc.vc/https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ Join the conversation, leave comments, and tell us what you think about these topics and this episode.

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Episode #90, Down rounds & pay-to-pay provisions, raising at a lower valuation on Fireside with a VC

 

Ben Kern, Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, corporate securities veteran, discusses the details of how startups raise funding in down rounds at lower valuations than the last funding round as well as more punitive financings that cram down or wipe out existing investors that do not Pay-to-Play wiring capital into the new financing. We discuss the different tools in the tool kit of how these financings are legally structured and what it means to all parties and how to sail through these very choppy waters.

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Episode #89, Jarred Kessler, CEO, EasyKnock fintech, real-estate tech, 15th largest home owner in the US

Discussing the dynamics of inflation, interest rates and the volatile US residential real-estate market; Running a New York fintech / real-estate startup before, during, and after Covid; Raising over $120m of equity funding and $600m of debt financing; How they became the 15th largest owner of single residential homes in the US in less than 7 years; The Operating Company/Property Company (Opco/Propco) company structure; Overseeing high-velocity growth in headcount, acquiring and integrating other companies successfully; Managing growth between funding rounds; continuing to innovate product development and service offerings; The interesting interplay between credit card debt, interest rates, inflation, the housing market; The changing percentage of Americans that qualify for a home mortgage; Advice on how to raise VC funding; The difference between raising VC vs debt financing; Managing growth vs profitability, pushing back on investors, and preparing for fundraising in the next economic cycle; Various paths to an exit for a company like EasyKnock

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Episode #88, Everything you need to know about Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS), the exemption that allows investors in startups or investors in VC funds that invest in startups to NOT pay capital gains tax on the greater of the first $10m of capital gains or 10x the cost basis (what you paid for the stock). A discussion of what qualifies and what does not, how this plays with the amount of funding, the value of the balance sheet at the time of the investment, holding period, how to tack or rollover, SAFEs compared to priced rounds and convertible notes to get the tax exemption, how it applies to founders and not only investors, how to document it and when it does not apply.

Roger Royse is a Silicon Valley career corporate and tax partner at law firm Haynes and Boone.

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Episode #87 Discussion with Catalina Daniels and James Sherman, authors of Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders published today by Harper Business. This book has 18 interviews with a compelling list of founders that all raised VC funding and managed to get to an exit via M&A or IPO. The authors and interviewees can be forgiven for all having gone to Harvard, but they do share their learnings from their experiences founding, raising, building and exiting. We discuss these learnings with the two entrepreneurs and angel authors in this episode of Fireside with a VC.

 

The discussion covers ideation and coming up with the killer idea, team building comparing solo founders to balanced teams, raising angel and VC funding, execution, pitfalls across the board including the risk of raising too much VC funding, complexities of M&A exits and how to position for success and guard against land mines.

 

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Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders

 

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Episode #86 Flint Capital investing in Israeli startups coming to the USA

Fireside with a VC speaking with Andrew Gershfeld at Flint Capital based in Boston and Tel Aviv talking about funding and supporting Israeli startups and helping them grow into large US companies.

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Episode #85 Building startups on SalesForce – Place RevOps automation and connectivity

 

Fireside with a VC talking to Brandon Metcal, CEO of Place, about RevOps (revenue operations) to solve financial forecasting and cash management with sales starting in 2020. Also discussing automating and synchronizing sales to finance, to human resources and other components to streamline SaaS companies that run on SalesForce and now SalesForce CPQ.

 

Talking about lessons learned from both Place and his previous business where Brandon raised $28m in funding and sold the business making a profit for investors, founders and employees.

We also take a deep dive on how to partner with SalesForce and lessons learned from over 20 years of working within the SalesForce ecosystem.

Place has also carved out a slice from their last funding round for investors on WeFunder to increase the network of support for the company.

 

Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/placetechnology/ 

SalesForce AppExchange: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=5e950d92-8476-4461-af88-eea66e55485c (new listing)

RevOps: https://www.placetechnology.com/solutions/revenue-operations (offering)

Place Cash and Burn Podcast, stories of SaaS growth: https://www.placetechnology.com/cash-and-burn-podcast 

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Fireside with a VC discussing flipping your business into a US Delaware C corporation from outside of the US. Many startups and teams are born in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, Africa, LatAm, Canada and everywhere and need to consider if they should flip to the US and if yes, technically how to do it. Considerations on attracting new investors from the US vs the country in which the business was created as well as tax considerations of flipping early or flipping later. Discussing specific tactics to minimize the tax burden and consequences for existing and new investors as well as founders and early employees.

 

Roger Royse is a Corporate and Tax Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP and has decades of experience doing countless flips and venture financings in Silicon Valley. Roger is also the author of best seller 10,000 Startups: Legal Strategies For Startup Success (https://a.co/d/0H0IZ1p) and the host of a podcast of the same name.

 

Podcast: 10,000 Startups: Legal Strategies For Startup Success:

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Fireside with a VC discussing how technology has evolved from mainframe-dumb terminal architecture to client-server architecture and making sure that all the right software is on each endpoint, making sure each endpoint is configured correctly, quickly, and efficiently, making sure cybersecurity attacks do not happen, and if they do rapidly rebuild from ransomware for new clients, eliminate vulnerabilities, reduce risk, automate application packaging, deployment, and reduce IT headaches. The economics of modern smart IT and keeping all software up to date. Reducing months to weeks for new customers that have been hacked.

 

The types of vulnerabilities are changing. How Aiden is staying ahead of the puck on what IT thresholds are changing to and how to program alerts and keep organizations in their own redefined compliance thresholds and providing that information to client organizations. Providing visibility of IT business intelligence to the CEO and C-suite.

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/C4mcAz7zbHM

 

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info@meetaiden.com

 

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#82, Understanding pre & post SAFEs, convertible notes vs priced rounds with Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, WilmerHale

 

Fireside with a VC is hosting a series of discussions on specific legal topics with the best lawyers from Silicon Valley and around the world. This episode is designed to help founders, VCs, advisors and supporters of startups understand everything they need to know and all the moving parts in convertible notes, pre-money and post-money SAFEs compared to priced equity financings. We start out explaining the key parts everyone needs to understand and then quickly get into an in-depth detailed conversation about how important these legal matters are and how it can be the difference between making a great return or not from an investor's perspective and steering clear of icebergs that can sink your startup or have you end up owning much less of your startup on the day of exit.

 

Daniel Zimmermann is a legendary corporate securities lawyer in Silicon Valley, a Partner at law firm WilmerHale and an absolute experienced expert on this topic.

 

Legals is something every founder, angel and VC should be an expert on and we are amazed on a daily basis how many investors and founders fail to understand the basics and moving parts, which ones to push for when negotiating and the finer subtleties that normally only come from decades of experience.

 

Find this episode on all podcast platforms: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=a835a3f3b5804cbb.

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pI6J1Q6W6dU

 

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Fireside with a VC hosting Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner of Sway Ventures at Professor Romans’ class on VC at Chapman University. Discussing a wide range of topics including:

 

· Brian’s path to VC from Cisco to startups to venture capital.

· Career advice for junior and senior folks to break into a career in venture capital.

· ESG, women and minorities in venture.

· How venture capital works.

· Each stage of funding from friends and family, pre-seed, late stage seed, series A, B and growth funding rounds and considerations.

· Pros and cons of investing at seed vs growth rounds, ownership targets / expectations for dilution, returns, timing and risk / reward profiles.

· How Sway Ventures adds value.

· Tactics for proprietary deal flow, avoiding bidding wars with other VCs, and delivering value to portfolio companies.

· Primary sources of deal flow.

· Common threads of most successful Sway portfolio companies. What are the characteristics of winning companies?

 

Find this episode on all podcast platforms: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=a835a3f3b5804cbb.

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/t17ruj6yFK0

 

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Fireside with a VC speaking with Aakash Shah and Surya Viswanathan, the founders of neonVest, how their platform is democratizing access to VCs for early-stage startups. NeonVest allows founders to instantly get Zooms with VCs, successful founder operators and other superchargers to help with funding, refining and improving their pitch, company strategy, financial model, SaaS metrics, exit preparation, referrals, operations, tech and product, valuation, culture, sales & marketing, pitch deck, pricing & biz models, term sheets, legal, market dynamics, talent & hiring, ideation & user testing, board formation, market sizing and everything else from angel and VC funding to company building and exiting. We also dive into the value prop to VCs and other superchargers and why they participate in this marketplace for Zooms and meetings. We close talking about the current market dynamics for Seed to late stage growth financings in Silicon Valley and around the world.

 

Check out signing up as a founder or VC here: https://neonvest.com/

Check out the neonVest Audio Experience podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CB6LR8HPxEbr8Ac5vxgqr?si=f940d0e280684cd1

 

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Fireside with a VC diving into a round table discussion with The Band of Angels, one of the oldest and most active angel groups in Silicon Valley covering the current seed and early stage investing and fundraising market environment and conditions. How are valuations and terms changing, the importance of QSBS tax and when to use priced rounds, convertible notes and the dangers of SAFE notes.

 

Disclaimer: many of these angel groups are LP investors in our VC funds and active members of our network sourcing deal flow, conducting due diligence, taking board seats, actively adding value to our portfolio companies, impacting our exits and helping us raise more LP capital for our VC funds. Many of the members of The Band are highly successful senior executives from large tech titans as well as successful entrepreneurs that have founded startups, raised angel and VC funding and experienced the spectrum of positive and negative outcomes making them more valuable than many VCs to have in your corner in good and bad times along the startup journey.

 

On all podcast platforms: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=a835a3f3b5804cbb

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/D_3mqnLF-7w

 

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#78, Jack Guedj, Band of Angels, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest & most active angel groups

 

Fireside with a VC diving into current seed and early stage investing and fundraising market environment and conditions. How are valuations and terms changing, the importance of QSBS tax and when to use convertible notes and the dangers of SAFE notes.

 

Next episode #79 includes the roundtable discussion with the Band of Angels. Jack Guedj is also an active member of Sand Hill Angels. Disclaimer: many of these angel groups are LP investors in our VC funds and active members of our network sourcing deal flow, conducting due diligence, taking board seats, actively adding value to our portfolio companies, impacting our exits and helping us raise more LP capital for our VC funds. Many of the members of The Band are highly successful senior executives from large tech titans as well as successful entrepreneurs that have founded startups, raised angel and VC funding and experienced the spectrum of positive and negative outcomes making them more valuable than many VCs to have in your corner in good and bad times along the startup journey.

 

On all podcast platforms: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=a835a3f3b5804cbb

 

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Episode #77 of Fireside with a VC, talking startup valuations and the current environment for VC financings as well as the impact of generative AI on startups, angels, VCs and LPs with U.S. Angels, one of the most active investor groups in the U.S. and an LP in 7BC Venture Capital.  

 

· How to price the pre-money valuation for a startup?

· How much cash should a startup raise in its next round?

· What is changing with regards to valuations, size of rounds, terms, exit expectations?

· The connection between the stock market and the private markets from seed to late stage pre-IPO funding and secondaries?

· What does AI mean for capital requirements, competition and everything?

· What to expect from this vintage of startups and VC funds?

· Roundtable discussion with John Ricci and U.S. Angels

 

Special thanks to John Ricci, a friend of more than 15 years!

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfricci/

 

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Episode #74, Charles Hudson, Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures on Generative AI

*Discussing how investors and founders can think about new generative AI startups that appear to have build products in days or weeks compared to years.

*What this new technology means for developing moats or barriers to entry for startups that can create working products so quickly.

*Early days of emerging managers with SoftTech VC / Uncork Capital and working with other emerging managers generating much higher returns than the large 30 year funds.

*Founding a new VC emerging manager and migrating from small ticket LPs to larger institutional LPs.

*Portfolio construction for early seed and strategies for follow on investing.

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/qTz9frTbkq8

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Thanks to our sponsor Pacific Western Bank, Startup Banking & Venture Debt, Mark diTargiani, mditargiani@pacwest.com

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Episode #76, Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares tokenizing real estate assets

 

· Discussing tokenization of real estate and other assets via white label solutions as well as launching their own real estate crypto exchange in the US and Europe enabling users to not touch crypto on or off ramps with everything working legally, licensed and compliantly.

· Why tokenization is important?

· How it lowers backend costs saving money and improving the performance of customers?

· What kind of assets are being tokenized other than real estate?

· The importance of fractionalization and democratization of the asset class.

· Creating trading liquidity and growing the demand for finite real estate supply.

· Raising money from investors in the current marketplace.

· How the world will be different as a result of all this digitization of large asset classes in 5 or 10 years from now?

 

Contact: cs@digishares.io

https://digishares.io/

 

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Episode #75, Hadley Harris, cofounder, ENIAC Ventures, NYC Seed Fund

· Discussing strategies for Seed investment as well as Opportunity Funds for doubling down in winners.

· How much diversification is required for optimal risk mitigation and impact of winners to fund results

· Evolution of the New York startup ecosystem over the past 13 years since ENIAC’s first fund

· Acquisition market in New York

· How to price a seed round and determine the right amount of capital to raise.  

· How much dilution is expected in a first pre-seed round.

· What milestones are expected to get to the next late stage seed round.

· Convertible notes vs SAFE notes vs priced rounds

· What tech sectors are getting the most interest

· Making sure startups have more than a thin layer on top of ChatGTP

 

https://youtu.be/Lj0OffldWyQ

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Recording of the VC Insight Panel at the sold out 7BC Venture Capital event in New York City at Pillsbury March 7, 2023.

 

VC Insight Panel

Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)

Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners, Senior Advisor, Pritzker Group

Wiz, Chief Astronaut, Spacecadet Ventures, The Marketing VC

Jonathan Shriftman, Partner, Expanding Capital

Andrew Romans, General Partner, 7BC Venture Capital, moderator

 

Talking about everything from seed to growth stage capital, dynamics around pro rata equity rights to complex structured secondaries.

 

Many thanks to sponsors and partners Fidelity, Better Engineering by Salsa Mobi, neonVest and Pillsbury.

 

Join us for our next event in Seattle April 4th which is nearly sold out with more than 50% VCs, family offices, angels and LPs registered. https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYyZt6aKKy4

 

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Episode #72, Krishna Srinivas, cofounder, LiveOak Venture Partners on Fireside with a VC

Ahead of SXSW very happy to share our podcast with one of Austin’s VC OGs discussing:

Ten lessons on entrepreneurship from summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro with his wife and kids 100% all-in on Texas, early stage, tech and tech-enabled services, Seed to Series A entry point Close to $500m AUM at LiveOak The evolution of the Austin, Texas VC startup scene What sectors and topics founders were working on and how this evolved to today Who were the VC funds in the 90s, early 2000s when there were literally fewer than 5 active VCs, then 15 VCs with representatives from NEA, Polaris and other big funds and then the collapse back to 5 to 8 active funds and the rise to today with Austin being a leading city with one of the highest concentrations of VC funds per capita The perfect storm of conditions for Austin to become a #2 market after California with huge tech talent and still total lack of local VC capital Lessons from the 2000 dot-com crash relevant to today’s 2023 market, how the current batch of startups will move forward from early to growth stage

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1zRJeFouxPA

All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com.

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com.

Planning events in cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. Get in touch if you want to host or sponsor any of our events.

andrew@7bc.vc

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Thanks to our sponsor Pacific Western Bank, Startup Banking & Venture Debt, Mark diTargiani, mditargiani@pacwest.com

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Episode #71, Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) on Fireside with a VC

Meet Andrea at 7BC's in-person event in New York City on March 7, 2023 - https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com.

101 lesson on secondaries and the secondary market Complexities of how secondaries work from the perspective of founders and investors selling shares for liquidity, the buyer of the secondaries, existing preferred shareholders and the company with Right of First Refusals (ROFRs) Deep dive on ROFRs Structuring for primaries and secondaries The bid / ask divide between sellers and buyers and how this will play out over the coming quarters following a downward reset of the market following a boom of early 2021 and a crash of the public markets in February of 2022

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC/videos.

All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com.

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com.

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/7bc-venture-capital-52957202553#events

Planning events in cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. Get in touch if you want to host or sponsor any of our events.

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Thanks to our sponsor Pacific Western Bank, Startup Banking & Venture Debt, Mark diTargiani, mditargiani@pacwest.com

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Episode #70, John Frankel, cofounder, ff Venture Capital on Fireside with a VC discussing:

· Learnings from Goldman Sachs applied to VC

· Launching the largest VC fund in Ukraine

· Launching a VC fund in Poland

· Managing the 6 VC funds based in New York, but investing across the US

· What percentage of companies get to $100m of ARR and how this drives portfolio construction

· What is the true work and lifestyle in running a VC business from raising capital, sourcing and diligencing deals, reporting, helping startups, numbers, and repeating

· The types of investors John got into fund I and how this changed with characteristics of raising a fund II, III, IV up to fund VI

· The true time table of starting to getting to exits and into carry

· The difference between investing early, mid stage and late stage within the context of a changing dynamic economy

· QSBS tax breaks for LPs, VCs and founders. No tax on the greater of 10x cost or $10m

· Details on why convertible notes are bad and SAFEs are worse

· The best way to construct a board of directors from pre-seed onwards

· Where is the market going? When is the bottom of the market and why?

· Breaking "the economy" into at least 6 different economies

· How the standoff on falling valuations will play out as we recover

· The complex relationship of public markets and private markets

Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_frankel

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DDCqJMVgUsc

All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com.

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com.

Planning events in cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. Get in touch if you want to host or sponsor any of our events.

andrew@7bc.vc

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Thanks to our sponsor Pacific Western Bank, Startup Banking & Venture Debt, Mark diTargiani, mditargiani@pacwest.com

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Episode #69, Martin Tobias, founder, Incisive Ventures in Seattle on Fireside with a VC discussing:

· How is Seattle different from Silicon Valley, Austin, or New York startup VC ecosystems?

· Getting away the very last IPO as CEO before the dot-com crash and lessons learned and how these apply to today’s climate.

· Old days of Microsoft and becoming a super angel and launching a Seed VC fund.

· Investing in Google, DocuSign, Ron Conway’s SV Angel I and II Funds

· Figuring out which of his 200 angel investments were the best and developing an investment thesis around this.

· Top meta themes & screening process

YouTube: https://youtu.be/iCl0_4i_rqM

Spotify: https://rb.gy/chjrsf

All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

Martin writes notes to himself on how to live the good life at DeepGreenCrystals.com.

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com.

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com

Planning events in cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. Get in touch if you want to host or sponsor any of our events.

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Episode #68, Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners & Advisor to the Pritzker Family Office discussing:

· The Alpha model to partner with Seed to Series A VC funds to invest in their pro-rata growth rounds of top winners and share carry with the Seed to Series A VC funds.

· Dynamics of early-stage VC funds deciding to double down or create an SPV to put more capital into winners versus partnering with growth specialists like Alpha Partners.

· Is it bad to let your fund LPs get overexposed to single deals via SPVs.

· The trend of LPs trying to do more directs coinvesting with their GPs and now LPs pulling back from making direct investments and “coinvestments” becoming a bad word.

· Investing in growth rounds in this new 2023 macro-economic environment.

· Expectation of multiples and holding times for growth stage investing.

· What are sensible multiples of ARR to pre-money valuations?

· What revenue year-on-year growth rates are expected for growth stage venture backed startups?

· How growth companies can get to profitable unit economics for growth companies and restructure businesses that were selling $100 to customers for $50.

· Are we heading into a worse economy or is the economy improving over the next 6, 12, 18 months?

YouTube: https://youtu.be/3EXtUiunpcQ

All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

https://alphapartners.com/

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com. Steve Brotman will be one of the panelists on the VC panel in NYC and will be joined by over 37 VCs, family offices and angel investors already registered for the event as of Jan 31, 20223. Waiting list starts at 100 delegates.

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com.

Planning events in cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. Get in touch if you want to host or sponsor any of our events.

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Episode #67, ​Mike Smerklo, cofounder, Next Coast Ventures, $600m+ Austin-based VC and author on Fireside with a VC discussing:

· Moving from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

· Cofounding a VC in Austin, Texas with over $600m in AUM focused on Series A and B rounds within 6 years currently investing out of a $310m Fund IV closed in early 2022

· Timing of a perfect vintage within the macro-economy

· Author of 2020 published book - Mr. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs - https:a//rb.gy/4qfdq3

· How Mike got into startups and venture being recruited by Marc Andreessen

· Building a company from 30 to 3,000 employees, $300m revenue to nearly $1bn valuation and IPO’ing

· Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley in the early dot-com days

· Dynamics of raising fund II compared to funds III and IV

· Are we going into a further recession or recovery in the startup world?

· Valuations and dynamics of A, B, and C rounds over the next 24 months and how to prepare

Book: Mr. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs - https:a//rb.gy/4qfdq3

Blog: www.mikesmerklo.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesmerklo

Twitter: mikesmerklo

Facebook: smerklo

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com

Planning 10 other cities in key tech corridors across the U.S.

Get in touch if you would like to host an event or sponsor and become part of the tour.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=6f51aad36d47450a

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Episode #66, ​Mark diTargiani, Venture Debt and Startup Banking, Pacific Western Bank on Fireside with a VC. Mark presented to Andrew Romans’ venture capital class at Chapman University as a guest speaker discussing:

· Explaining how Venture Debt works, when it makes sense and when it does not make sense.

· Startup banking and general advice on startups and raising capital.

· The importance of relationships and understanding how to help people in your network to develop your relationships and achieve success.

· Networking within the startup VC ecosystem.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/

https://www.pacwest.com/

Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions

New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com

Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com

Planning other cities in key tech corridors across the U.S.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC/videos

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn

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Episode #65, Fireside with a VC speaking with Alex Moore, 1st employee of Palantir ($14.5bn market cap), cofounder of Backplane (one of my investments), cofounder of Nodeprime (one of my investments), Partner at 8VC with $6bn+ of AUM discussing:

• Early days of Palantir up to today where he is a board member

• Focusing on defense related tech startups when most of Silicon Valley did not or does not want to support the U.S. defense industry

• Creating startups with a dual defense + commercial revenue / customer model

• Selling into government / intelligence / military

• Culture of recruiting engineers and founders to focus on military / defense tech

• Startups leveraging data in vertical models

• Venture Studio / incubation models that work within the VC machine, ownership models, founder equity, engineering equity / ESOP pool, attracting follow on funding from classic VCs

• Vesting schedules for founders and employees

• How to retain high value engineers and employees

• Valuations in today’s current market for funding and exits

• How many months runway should startups raise for in today’s uncertain market

• How real is the conflict between the West and Russia & China

• Working with Joe Lonsdale & Peter Thiel

• Opportunity to build software for most of the economy that is not leveraging technology yet, but must

• How the demise of crypto is good for real tech startups

• What makes a great entrepreneur and what makes a fundable founding team

• Succeeding in the current economic environment and growing individual careers

Video on Spotify and YouTube https://youtu.be/SScCtPD_awE.

Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Special thanks to Mark diTargiani & the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/

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Episode #64, Fireside with a VC speaking with Greg Coquillo, 2x Top Voice on Linkedin for AI, Data Science, Technology and Innovation with 160k followers on LinkedIn, senior exec reducing cognitive overload for users by delivering AI/ML solutions at large FAANG in Seattle. Discussing:

· How he got 160k followers on LinkedIn.

· Having the confidence to be right but also to be wrong and learn via engagement with LinkedIn community talking technology.

· Latest trends in Generative AI, what it means, what works now, and what needs to happen for many breakthroughs for humanity and business.

· Update on AI, ML and Cognitive AI.

· How coming from the world of manufacturing taught him to think differently about the world of software.

· Most fulfilling achievements as a Pricing Optimization Product Manager for one of the largest companies in the world.

· His latest angel and advisory investment DAGsHub.

· Quantum computing and technologies that will take the world by storm.

· Personal journey of moving from Haiti to tech at a top FAANG in Seattle and the drive to give back.

Video on Spotify and https://youtu.be/PIKGjlriFh4.

Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Special thanks to Mark diTargiani & the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/

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Episode #63, Fireside with a VC speaking with Dan Harvey, Vice Chairman of CBRE discussing WaaS Workplace as a Service and all the changes in a post-Covid world on how to maximize PIC (Productivity, Innovation & Collaboration). Discussing how startups and large companies can get the correct mix of in-office, work from home (#WFH) & offsite events mixing office space, technology and techniques for maximal results. What to measure and how to measure various outputs impacting how companies attract and retain talent in a talent war and how can startups or corporates get the best results from their teams? Money is not free any more. EBITDA matters. Productivity matters. Is it cheaper to build the best mix of technology and methods in-house or outsource any of this.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-harvey-ba7ba726/

Video on Spotify and https://youtu.be/un5Dpqup27E.

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Special thanks to the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode.

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Episode #62, Fireside with a VC speaking with Brandon Metcalf, CEO of Place discussing challenges for creating and scaling SaaS companies. Brandon is an Austin-based 4x founder, podcast host, board director, advisor, software creator, Salesforce expert and investor. Discussing:

· Fundraising from angels and VCs

· How to track key SaaS metrics for success and tying that to growth, staffing and fundraising

· The balance of investing in more product engineering or growth vs milking what you have for sales and profitability

· Going from point solutions to adding modules, reaching end-to-end solutions and how that impacts customer win rates, changes whom you are selling to and closing business

· “Must have” vs “nice to have” technology in today’s macro-economic environment

· What has changed in fundraising, cash runways, how to deal with investors and employees

· Hiring, firing and growth during an economic downturn

· Lessons learned from fundraising and M&A exits from previous startups

· Working with Salesforce and how to be successful in this massive ecosystem

Podcast: Cash & Burn: https://www.placetechnology.com/cash-and-burn-podcast/

LinkedIn: Brandon Metcalf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metcalf/

SaaS glossary: Little Black Book of SaaS: https://www.placetechnology.com/little-black-book-of-saas/

Company website: Place: https://www.placetechnology.com/

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Episode #61 Fireside with a VC speaking with Kyle Kling, Head of MDI Ventures, the CVC of Telekom Indonesia at Chapman University in Southern California. Discussing:

· The evolution of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)

· Specifics around “on the balance sheet” vs “off the balance sheet” issues around CVC

· Unique issues for Telekom Indonesia with a board of commissioners including government voting, Singtel and Singapore minority ownership of Telekom Indonesia ownership

· Conglomerate culture, privately held family office culture in South East Asia

· The conglomerate Telekom Indonesia, owns not only a mobile network operator more than twice the size of Verizon, but also pharmaceutical, healthcare clinics, IT services, data centers, financial services, music and entertainment, and 30 other major businesses

· Investing in US companies and other companies outside of South East Asia

· Methodologies for valuing startups in a VC portfolio

· Working at a CVC vs an independent VC

· Compensation and other issues for CVCs

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Episode #60 Fireside with a VC speaking with Charles (Chuck) Newhall, III, a 3rd generation venture capitalist. Newhall cofounded New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1977 with Dick Kramlich and Frank Bonsal. NEA is the largest VC fund in the world. Newhall is a U.S. warrior who served in Vietnam commanding an independent platoon. His decorations include the Silver Star and Bronze Star. Newhall is also the author of a new book - Dare to Disturb the Universe, A Memoir of Venture Capital.

Discussing:

· Fighting on Hamburger Hill in Vietnam and revelations of a career in VC.

· Founding a VC firm built to last 100+ years and specifics of how he built NEA.

· Origins of venture capital dating back to Phoenicians and how Christopher Columbus was a VC-backed founder with an 80/20 split of the gains or what he “carried”.

· Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius, the 2&20 model, and aligning interests.

· Stories of VC investing and startups including persistent seed investing in Apple Computer. Buying 10% of Apple Computer for $400k by sleeping at the Apple office and refusing to go home.

· Investing based on DD from experts versus investing from passion.

“You’re only one person away from a great company at any point in time.” - Charles (Chuck) Newhall, III

For more buy the books:

1) Dare to Disturb the Universe, A memoir of Venture Capital (https://rb.gy/g1izrc).

2) Brightside Gardens - A Dialogue Between The Head and The Heart (https://rb.gy/qcphsn)

3) The Chronicles of Stanley the Pug (https://youtu.be/uwjq7kInKlY)

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Episode #59 Fireside with a VC talking to Arthur Andrew Bavelas, Managing Partner, Family Office Insights, discussing why the recession is making the current vintage of VC perform better, talking about secondaries, VC strategies to return LP capital back faster via SPVs and secondaries and how to involve LPs in the VC process.

Video on YouTube and Spotify - https://youtu.be/AHv4F7t2uWE. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC

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Play this video back at 2x speed if you are proficient in English.  Fund performance is now up since recording this video. Our first fund has a MOIC of 4.11x and expects to return a minimum 7x cash on cash return. Fund II MOIC of 4.41x and expects a 12x to 15x cash on cash return. Fund III is already up 1.27x and newest investors still get in at cost.  Talking to some old friends in the Washington DC area about 7BC Venture Capital related to our 506c VC fund which allows for general solicitation.

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Episode #58 of Fireside with a VC discussing early stage VC in sub-Saharan Africa with Marsha Wulff, cofounder of LoftyInc Capital Management as a guest speaker at Chapman University talking to Professor Andrew Romans and his students at his class on VC.   

*Starting a VC fund to invest in sub-Saharan African early stage tech startups.  

*Overcoming challenges in raising LP capital for a "Top 3" VC fund investing in African startups. 

*Opportunities and challenges facing African entrepreneurs, VCs and LPs as well as the evolving high value angel scene in Africa. 

*Advice for African founders on how to raise angel and VC funding.  

Feel free to get in touch to learn more about investing in African or American VC funds.   

Video on Spotify and YouTube: https://youtu.be/EPgmMjJDmG8.

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Episode #57, John Vitti, CEO of Versus Game on campus at Chapman University with Professor Andrew Romans

Talking about lessons learned from 4 previous startups and how we raised nearly $40m from top Silicon Valley VCs including very hands on investment and support from Eric Schmidt, Kevin Hart, 7BC Venture Capital and other investors.

Building a large business to over $100m in revenue and leveraging Hollywood TV models to drive a high growth, high margin, impact business to change the world.

Advice to founders on getting started and getting connected.

Video: https://youtu.be/KBgwdQo4NqQ.

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Episode #56, Update on the war in Ukraine from the front lines in Kiev with Eric Kadyrov, Founder at Private Tech Network.

Talking about specific numbers and the state of the war with images, videos and how he has helped move weapons around the country and done direct outreach to thousands of companies to stop doing business with Russia from HP and Cisco to startups.

In this episode Eric is a guest speaker to my class I teach at Chapman University on Venture Capital. Eric is also the founder of Private Tech Network, an AI driven VC as a Service platform where I am an advisor.

Download Eric's slides here: https://docsend.com/view/x3ef7qrh8u2p5yjp.

Video: https://youtu.be/UlWOfIfQzXQ.

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Venture Capital Thursdays: Discussing and understanding secondaries, VC performance metrics and evolving liquidity in the venture capital asset class across the stack from founders to angels, Seed VCs, Series A VCs, growth investors and LPs with my students in California. Recommend to play at 2x speed if English is your first language.

· Direct Secondaries – primary vs secondary investing

· How does it work with running a process, getting ROFR’d, how to not get ROFR’d

· How to waste time and not make any money trying to buy secondaries and what happens in the real world?

· Structured secondaries

· How are secondaries impacting the timing of an exit?

· How are secondaries impacting the actual value of the exit?

· How are secondaries impacting the performance of a VC fund to its LP investors?

· Understanding key VC performance terms work
and the impact of Secondaries on performance

· What is IRR? – impact of secondaries?

· What is MOIC? – impact of secondaries?

· What is TVPI? – impact of secondaries?

· What is DPI? – impact of secondaries?

· What is Cash-on-Cash? – impact of secondaries?

· LP Secondaries

· Discounts LP secondary buyers seek to get

· What is a Fund of Funds (FOF)

· Evolving liquidity in the venture capital asset class across the stack from founders to angels, Seed VCs, Series A VCs, growth investors and LPs

Video: https://youtu.be/qorjT7OV9nU

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Episode #54 Brian Laung Aoaeh, GP @REFASHIOND Ventures on Fireside with a VC sharing his story of going from his home country of Ghana to becoming a VC at KEC Ventures and now cofounder of REFASHIOND Ventures focused on supply chain and sharing research on how family offices can best play in the early-stage venture capital space.

· The Research Report on Family Offices: Towards A Partnership Model for Family Offices and Emerging Venture Firm Managers https://docsend.com/view/47y7zzu4rxwhtaxi

· REFASHIOND Ventures: https://www.refashiond.com/

· REFASHIOND Ventures AngelList Fund: angel.co/v/back/refashiond-seed

· The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation: https://theworldwidesupplychainfederation.com/our-vision

Video: https://youtu.be/GLeEzutBOX0

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Episode #53 Nathan Beckord, CEO @Foudersuite and podcast host of “How I raised it” on Fireside with a VC discussing all things fundraising from angels and VCs.

· How to email VCs with a warm intro or cold email.

· Researching investors and forming the most suitable target investor list.

· Developing relationships with VCs before your funding round.

· What docs founders should have prepared for a VC funding round.

· Advice on decks and financial forecasts.

· What’s the goldilocks of being too aggressive or too conservative with financial projections?

· Winning financial models and how to present the numbers including unit economics.

· Advice for recruiting and compensating advisors.

· Pricing your financing round for success.

· How to use Foundersuite to find prospective angels, VCs, family offices and CVCs.

· How to digitize your fundraising process end-to-end.

Foundersuite can be a substitute for expensive subscriptions to Pitchbook, DocSend, DocuSign, virtual data rooms, CRM, templates for legal docs, and a ton more.

Get a 30% discount on your first month of using Foundersuite with the promo code “Romans”.

If English is your first language, please play us at 1.5x or 2x faster speed.

Video: https://youtu.be/R-Kk9prqZ74.

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Episode #52 Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures. Discussing:

· What it was like being a woman founder and CEO raising VC funding in Silicon Valley decades ago.

· What it has been like being a woman solo GP launching a VC fund in Silicon Valley compared to being a man doing the same.

· Talking about the practical realities of how relationships are formed for women to men and women to women in MBA programs, the VC industry, and how Cindy has navigated and pioneered this reality in Silicon Valley over decades.

· How Cindy has leveled the playing field while purely focusing on financial returns.

· Building personal confidence and overcoming fears.

· Talking about the reality of diversity investing and how this is changing at the VC and founder levels.

· Valuations of SaaS startups now and portfolio construction.

· How the market has been shifting up and down on valuations and what this means for founders and investors.

· The enterprise investment focus of Illuminate Ventures.

· Unique model of forming a 50-person advisory council for Illuminate Ventures with over 50% women.

· How startups and VC funds will perform well even if the economy tanks.

If English is your first language, please play us at 1.5x or 2x faster speed.

Video: https://youtu.be/bdQpwhZRXHI.

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Episode #51 Kelly Perdew, Cofounder & Managing Partner of Moonshots Capital, Entrepreneur, Military Veteran, Winner of Season 2 - The Apprentice, and father of twins! Discussing:

· Advice to founders on how to raise angel and VC funding.

· How Kelly went from being a VC-backed founder to making angel investments, pooling angel investors together into running a Syndicate on Angel List and then managing his own Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), and then his own VC funds but still doing SPVs.

· Strategies for investing in late stage seed and late stage pre-IPO growth.

Video: https://youtu.be/jK5UUUsra-g.

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Episode #50 Alan Patricof, godfather of the VC and PE industries, he’s 87 years old now, and founded legendary VC firm Greycroft and seminal PE firm Apax. Alan founded VC fund Patricof Company Ventures with a $2.5m fund in 1969.

· Greycroft has over $2bn of AUM with a reputation trying to keep things from getting too big and follow the path of Apax which has AUM of over $60bn. Their last fund I believe closed in January of 2021 at it’s hard cap of $11bn.

· Alan rather than just add more zeros to Apax, which I think stands for Alan’s initials Alan Patricof Associates Cross-Border, Alan moved on from Apax to found Greycroft. Proving his passion for investing early Greycroft raised its first fund (Greycroft I) with $75 million. Some of Alan’s investments include Steve Job’s Apple Computer, AOL, Xerox, New York Magazine, HuffPost, Audible, Axios, Venmo, Goop, Crafy which we invested in before Greycroft and alongside Greycroft a few weeks ago, Office Depot, and many others.

· Now Alan has teamed up with Abby Miller Levy to launch a new VC fund Primetime Partners focused on funding early stage companies that can transform the quality of living for older adults. At 87 Alan may have some insight and opinions there.

· Alan has also written a book I purchased on pre-order No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone.

· Abby is a Princeton and Harvard graduate, began her career at McKinsey, more recently was the Founding President alongside CEO Arianna Huffington at Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness and worked in new ventures at SoulCycle.

· Discussing how VC funds have become too large in size resulting in over funding companies and failing to make venture returns.

· Discussing what’s changed in 50 years? More people want to start their own business now compared to far fewer 50 years ago.

· Deep dive on Primetime Partners strategy with a focus on healthcare IT and fintech and the growing elderly market, which control two thirds of the world’s wealth. Primetime also backs founders that start companies over the age of 50.

· Talking about current strategy at Greycroft seeking to invest in companies that can be valued at over $10bn.

· Primetime in contrast is seeking to invest smaller checks, out of a smaller fund and more realistic exit valuations.

· Exit return targets for Primetime compared to Greycroft and reaching 3x returns fund-wide.

Hello@primetimepartners.com

Video: https://youtu.be/T7DA1__xQCs.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Red-Lights-Reflections-Venture/dp/1637582935

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Episode #49 Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, CEO and General Partner BootstrapLabs, AI focused VC on Fireside with a VC discussing:

· What is real AI compared to AAI (artificial artificial intelligence).

· Founding a VC fund from scratch that is not a spinout of a large existing VC fund.

· Tips and tricks for raising initial LP capital.

· Raising LP capital for a first VC fund and then a second and third VC fund.

· Building a VC brand and finding differentiators.

· Investment strategy for investing in early stage startups.

· Valuations and returns pre-during and -post pandemic.

· What makes a great AI startup.

https://bootstraplabs.com/community/nicolai-wadstrom/

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/d6fElnQbNTs

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Episode #48 John Vitti, founder & CEO of VersusGame, a prediction game of culture discussing:

· How he raised $25m in his Series A Funding round and built this company from scratch to transacting over $100m in 2021 with payouts to players, game creators and his startup.

· Being transparent and authentic and developing relationships as a key driver of success.

· The importance of listening to other people and developing empathy leading to spotting trends and being able to form vital partnerships.

· How he and his team came up with a prediction game of culture where players can play for free, for sponsored prizes or cash.

· His belief of how knowledge should be rewarded and how the game is designed to not be a vice or corrupted like Wall Street.

· How to take valuable content and find ways for partners to monetize their content and content creators without advertising, which everyone hates.

· Increasing engagement and developing new rewards for content creators.

· Raising seed capital and venture capital, pivoting and learning from failure.

· Talking about the launch of the VersusGame TV show this summer.

Download Versus Game from the app store and play on mobile or play on www.versusgame.com or follow on Instagram.

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Episode #47 Niran Shrestha, founder & CEO of Kwant AI, NYC SaaS for the construction industry. Discussing:

• How IoT smart badges collecting real-time data connected to an AI operating system of software can save lives, save huge amounts of money, increase productivity by 11% and speed the time to completion of projects.

• How fatalities and accidents are prevented and reduced using smart technology.

• How projects are completed more efficiently and faster.

• Challenges of growing a SaaS AI company in the global construction industry.

• Overcoming challenges of being an immigrant founder and raising VC funding from top VCs.

Video: https://youtu.be/jL53Mf5_Moc

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Episode #45 Zach Coelius founder of Coelius Capital an active San Francisco early stage VC fund. Discussing:

· Brutal war story of how Facebook exploded his startup in a good and bad way.

· Working with Mark Zuckerberg as a partner.

· Crashing and burning and rising from the ashes as a person and professional.

· How Zach successfully pivoted from entrepreneur to VC.

· How to launch a Syndicate on Angel List, rolling fund and VC fund without institutional LP investors.

· Advantages of leveraging a diverse network on Angel List.

· Advice to founders on finding product market fit and fundraising.

· Advantages of being a hands-on VC with real founder experience of both success and failure.

· How to raise LP capital from angels and family offices over Zoom.

· Access to deal flow vs being shackled by strict portfolio construction adherence.

· Valuations for startups sane or insane and how to make strong returns in today’s valuation landscape.

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Episode #45 Ryan Welsh, CEO & cofounder of Kyndi, Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI company, raised $43m in funding from 7BC Venture Capital, Dick Kramlich, Pivot North, Intel Capital & Darling Ventures on Fireside with a VC. Discussing:

· How deep AI is good or bad for humanity and threats to the human race.

· Impact AI will have on economies of different countries and impact on human happiness.

· How NLP is a leap forward for humanity and business.

· Ability to take search to entirely new level and reading and intelligently processing unstructured data in limitless documents beyond human capabilities.

· Investment case for enterprise to adopt NLP and AI.

· How fundraising is different for a B2B AI NLP company compared to a SaaS company.

· Understanding details of AI at the technology level and Kyndi’s pioneering methods of mixing AI methodologies to fuse new methods and capabilities.

· Understanding searching text in the old way, the new way, how Kyndi does it and others by breaking it down into different types of search.

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• Discussing strategies and advice for first moves when starting a business and then how to raise the first capital for a potentially high-growth high-tech business.

• Characteristics of great founders, recruiting cofounders, advisors, angels and VCs that add value.

• How to triage or think about startups that come into your inbox or orbit.

• What are the key things you try to figure out when looking at a deal for the first time.

• Discussing current 2021 valuations for raising venture rounds and valuations of exits.

• How many boards should a VC be on.

• What is the point of a board, how to run a board meeting and the role a board should play.

• Dynamics of boards and how to communicate across a board and lobby for a specific outcome.

• When should a startup form its first board of directors.

• Understanding key terms to negotiate for and how to communicate and come through with an agreement.

• Investing in startups and VC funds.

• Investment themes changing over time.

• Is the current vintage of VC a good vintage considering entry point valuations and exit point valuations.

• Advice on self-actualization and building a culture or cultural norms that matters more than cash or stock option compensation at a startup?

• How to maintain cultural norms at a high-growth company over time as things change.

• What are you optimistic about?

• Life after death, the universe, the meaning of life and how that focuses decisions we make now.

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Episode #44 Brian Cohen, General Partner, New York Venture Partners (NYVP), Chairman Emeritus, New York Angels, legendary angel investor in Pinterest, Comixology, actively making 3 new investments per week, 100+ and NYVP. Talking about how to price pre-money valuations on seed rounds. How to create the partnership between founders and VCs. Talking about how to run a fundraising process for Seed, Late Stage Seed, Series A and beyond. Refining the pitch for your startup. PR advice for startups. How important is it to be in Silicon Valley or New York in the new post Covid world. Talking about M&A and how to position your startup for an exit. Subscribe and view video here: https://youtu.be/l-GYQgQ2eQA. andrew@7bc.vc

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Episode #42Andrew Romans talking to Yuri Rabinovich, MD at Tribe V, at their VC Masterclass taking a deep dive on M&A for investors and venture backed startups.

· Different types of M&A exits and considerations: all cash, cash and stock, all stock, milestone based earnouts, PE exit structures & secondaries.

· Different types of M&A buys and specific dynamics: acquihire, team buy, geography buy, tech buy, revenue buy, customer buy, DCF buy, sector buy, PE buy and how this impacts founders vs early or late VCs.

· Secondaries and the direct impact and dynamics around the next fundraising and M&A.

· How a funding round and the post money valuation and cash-on-cash exit return will impact the options for exits and what will satisfy the newest investors.

· Pricing of fundraising rounds considering the exit value and who can buy the company.

· M&A as it fits into venture capital portfolio construction.

· Having the network and speaking to your network to understand the dynamics and multiples for that specific industry. Know this before you found your company or before you invest in that company to understand the entry point valuation and exit expectations and track these multiples of the industry and performance of the startup.

· Integrating M&A valuations and dynamics into your VC investment decisions.

· Lessons learned from Instagram being wanted by Twitter, feared by Facebook and courted by VCs driving optimal perfect storm outcome for Instagram exit. Absolutely nothing to do with DCF at the time of exit.

· Lessons learned from Yahoo! Buying Flickr and Google buying Picasa.

· Q&A with Tribe V about M&A.

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Episode #41 Fireside with a VC - Louis David Mangin CEO & Co-founder at Confiant, one of our successful Fund II portfolio companies based in NYC in the cybersecurity malvertising sector protecting users of publishers and advertisers against bad actors attacking their devices, data and stealing wealth via fraudulent investment scams. Confiant is the industry leader in Detecting, Preventing, and Resolving Ad Issues.

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· Lessons learned scaling SaaS revenues from $1m ARR to $10M ARR in 4 years.

· Selecting VCs and the value of the critical and confidential feedback loop from VC investors during the fundraising process.

· Understanding the evolution of the cybersecurity industry and malware advertising industry.

· The high rate of compound growth of the advertising industry over search, social, video and apps on the internet has left the industry with a dangerous load of technology debt which creates opportunities for bad actors to exploit.

· Ads are still the best way to reach people.

· The evolution of iterations of bad actors to forcefully redirect ads and attack the data to reach the target user demographic with specific fraudulent ads.

· The latest innovation on attacks are fraudulent investment scams, these are cloaked and hidden from the user unless they match the right user, demographic and profile.

· Bad actors have evolved from compromising banner adds to compromising search, social, video and apps.

· If you search for crypto investments on Google, half the search results are most likely fraudulent and will take your money, report back to you that you are making money, encourage you to invest more and never let you withdraw.

· Evolution of attacking the user’s device, presenting fraudulent ads, attacking the user’s data with phishing scams to stealing the user’s life savings.

· The need for Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook and others to secure their own supply chain of ads to stop enabling these bad actors.

· Three pillars of cybersecurity: detecting, preventing, and resolving ad Issues and applying these to each emerging fraudulent vector.

· How publishers and advertisers can gain control of the information flowing over their digital pipes.

· The evolution of privacy and consent on what is legal and what that means for publishers, advertisers and users when the service is free and the user is the product.

· Confiant is now enabling companies to offer their users privacy and control over the information flowing over their pipes and reducing the access bad actors have to attack their devices, data and present fraudulent investment scams.

· Balancing making large parts of the web illegal vs compliant with consent driven privacy law.

· Going from zero to $1m in 4 years and then $1m to $10m in 4 years.

· How Confiant has grown its team with both cybersecurity engineers and now privacy engineers.

· Technology challenges of GDPR compliance.

· Importance of fostering a corporate culture to retain talent in a talent war.

· Enabling self-actualization of each employee to get both hiring and employee retention right to achieve and protect the vector of growth within your startup.

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Episode #40Jonathan Fish, CEO & cofounder of QSBS Expert, explaining how to pay zero capital gains / no taxes on your gain up to $10m in tax savings or 10x the cost of your investment, whichever is bigger. Qualifications for Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax exemptions. The small business must have assets of less than $50m on the balance sheet (not valuation) at the time of the investment including the size of the round, must hold the stock for at least 5 years or roll or tack the exit gain into another QSBS qualifying investment within 60 days and hold for a total combined 5 years. Multiple rollover / tacks are permitted. Discussing which states adhere to federal QSBS and which states charge their own capital gains tax on QSBS stock disregarding the federal laws. How founders can best benefit from $10m or more in tax savings from their own gain of their QSBS startups and which documents to file as founders and when to start the 5 year clock ticking. How to gift some of your QSBS stock to trusts which can each get up to $10m+ from a single QSBS stock gain distributed to multiple trusts. Advice and recommendations on not being too overzealous with the QSBS programs and gifting strategies. How the federal Build, Back Better Infrastructure Plan may remove QSBS to free up more revenue to pay for the Infrastructure Plan and how that may stymie job growth, lost payroll tax and the multiplier effect of this program. How startups and investors can document and keep all records in good conduct to ensure benefiting from QSBS and other services offered by QSBS Expert and their other tax expertise. Note: 7BC Venture Capital and Andrew Romans are not offering any tax advice. This blog post and podcast are offered with the understanding that neither 7BC Venture Capital nor Andrew Romans is engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.

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Episode #39 Brian Cohen, General Partner, New York Venture Partners, Chairman Emeritus, New York Angels, legendary angel investor in Pinterest, Comixology, actively making 3 new investments per week, 100+ and NYVP. Advice to founders on how to raise angel and VC funding, make an emotional and personal connection with the angel, smile a lot, be funny, have breakfast, lunch and dinner with each company before investing, likes startups that understand the customer better than they understand themselves. All startups pivot, iteration is the new innovation, why taking too much capital too early is a huge mistake. I’m not in the investment business; I’m in the exit business. Must see a 20x return to buy into a current valuation and invest. A million reasons why to never invest in SAFEs. SAFEs do not get QSBS tax treatment. Love your investors that loved you and believed in you first. Check out part II of my chat with Brian in episode #41 as we continue our discussion.

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Episode #38 Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and Lecturer at Stanford University, ex-CFO at Oracle, $250bn market cap, ex-CFO at DoubleClick sold to Google for $3.2bn. Talking about key milestones and metrics for VC investors. What VCs want. How many financings rounds a startup should go through on a path to an IPO exit, how much funding a startup should raise at each financing round, what valuations should be, what kind of dilution, how frequently they should raise, how many months of cash runway is healthy, what metrics should the startup show to VCs with regards to revenue, how much of an increase year over year during the life of the startup, other key metrics such as CAC to payback rather than CAC to LTV, churn, # of paying referenceable customers, product market fit survey, % of sales team reaching quota, churn of sales team, annual revenue growth, annual growth of revenue per customer, net renewal rate, gross margin, efficiency score, cash conversion score, customer concentration, Net Promoter score, when to double revenue, when to triple revenue, what it takes to justify a $1bn valuation, comparing metrics for SaaS companies, marketplaces and consumer companies. The changing dynamic of 2021 compared to previous years.

Bessemer Venture Partners was founded in 1911, has over $8 billion AUM,135 IPOs, 20 investing partners, 210+ active portfolio companies, offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore & Beijing.

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Episode #37 Robert Siegel, Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business & VC on Fireside with a VC talking about his new book The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical https://rb.gy/ctfxbb. Rob is also a General Partner at X-Seed Capital and Venture Partner at Piva Capital. In THE BRAINS AND BRAWN COMPANY, Siegel demonstrates how companies that bridge the digital and physical domains will have an advantage in coming years – just as Amazon has proven. Siegel provides a framework for ten key attributes companies must master—five each for the digital and physical realms—arguing that digital and physical excellence reinforce each other, achieving more in coordination than either can on their own.

1. Brain/The Left Hemisphere: Using Analytics

2. Brain/The Right Hemisphere: Harnessing Creativity

3. Brain/The Amygdala: Tapping the Power of Empathy

4. Brain/The Prefrontal Cortex: Managing Risk

5. Brain/The Inner Ear: Balancing Ownership and Partnership

6. Brawn/The Spine: Logistics

7. Brawn/Hands: The Craft of Making Things

8. Brawn/Muscles: Leveraging Size and Scale

9. Brawn/Hand-Eye Coordination: Managing Ecosystems

10. Brawn/Stamina: Surviving for the Long Run Siegel illustrates each with case studies—many based on CEO visits to his “Industrialist’s Dilemma” class or in-depth research and case studies, providing readers the feel of an all-access pass to several of the most popular courses at the Stanford GSB. From 23andMe, Instacart and Google to Kaiser Permanente, Desktop Metal, and Michelin, the examples demonstrate how to combine the best of both digital and physical attributes to grow a company. And Siegel shows leaders how to put the framework into action by becoming Systems Leaders, skilled at blending the best of digital and physical, recognizing emerging patterns, and making key decisions in a rapidly changing landscape.

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Episode #36 Nathan Rosenstock, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Crafty on Fireside with a VC

talking about corporate culture BC (Before Covid) and AC (After Covid) and how the kegerator became the new water jug and led Crafty to become the leader as “the platform for employee consumption” driving corporate culture by developing a technology stack and product service offering delivering and servicing the delivery of beer, wine, coffee, drinks, snacks, food, best of breed work from home gear and essential devices to foster the most effective corporate culture when working in the office, from home and hybrid models. Discussed the genesis of the company from working at McKinsey to a full time funded startup, to the challenges of Covid when their customers shut down most of their offices due to Covid to pivots to supporting employees at home with box service offerings and a solution for WFH employees to gear up their home offices for productivity and well-being, culture and connectivity, employees coming together over food and beverage, the ROI of food and beverage, how does collaborative innovation happen in a remote work from home environment, how to get people to come to the office on a Friday, now how to get them to come in at all, in-office and remote activities, connectivity, convenience, new models for small companies to offer new shared services to offer a café, childcare, gym and other amenities as scale with economies of scale. Specifics on how to survive Covid when most revenues disappeared, details and psychology of firing people even when they are great employees to survive a Covid crunch, the value of talking to customers to figure out how to pivot or what service offerings to change, finding your value to customers, work from home essentials, desk gear, yoga mats, home microphones, etc. Discussing various dependencies of how, when and where workforces will return to offices compared to work from home – executive team culture, geography, cost of living and size of homes, seasonal weather, sales vs accounting departments - are all factors for when to come into the office again. When will office truly reopen? Advantages and disadvantages of launching a company in Chicago and growing to Silicon Valley, New York and other key markets. Video on Fireside with a VC https://youtu.be/DiO2gS8Jr3Y. https://craftydelivers.com/ https://box.craftydelivers.com/ 

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Episode #35 A brake from Fireside with a VC, Andrew Romans delivering a short keynote and doing Q&A with old friend John Ricci, MD of US Angels. Discussing new ways for angel investors to participate more actively in VC funds as Limited Partners, sourcing deal flow, conducting due diligence, taking boards seats, mentoring founders, advising portfolio companies, joining General Partners and Partners for meetings in Silicon Valley, Austin, New York, Miami, London, generating revenue as angels for participation and earning a share in a pool of carry for active LPs, and creating a path to become Venture Partners or Partners in the fund or open new 7BC funds in other countries. Video https://youtu.be/1v6aooshr-M 

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Episode #34 Taking a deep dive on SPACs with Adam Birnbaum, Executive Director at GP Bullhound, understanding how SPACs work, what are the moving parts and processes, taking a look at the different players from sponsors, IPO investors PIPE investors, target companies overall process and how some of these are changing. SPACs vs IPOs. What characteristics must a target company have for a SPAC to be an option, enterprise value, multiples on revenues or EBITDA. Timelines, costs, lockups and other details about how this works. After-market performance of these IPOs and completed transactions. Who are the players on the side of sponsors, IPO investors and PIPE investors? Overall what this means to startups and VCs from early-stage to growth investors and what we expect to happen in the future.

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Episode #33 Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures, a pre-Seed, pre-revenue, pre-MVP venture fund in Silicon Valley that funds teams with at least one immigrant on the founding team. Discussing their model on how to support founders with capital and hands-on support as well as a specialty of helping companies deal with U.S. immigration issues. Also discussing the specifics of investing via convertible notes, SAFEs, side letter agreements, pro-rata equity rights and the emotional or earned pro-rata equity rights. Video podcast https://youtu.be/-rNsDozQJnc 

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Episode #32 – Karen McCormick, Chief Investment Officer of Beringea, a US & UK venture capital firm with approximately $750m of Assets Under Management focused on Series A investing discussing the innovative structure of Beringea’s publicly traded, listed VC fund, the advantages of being a publicly traded VC fund compared to the evolving secondary market for LP interests and how to optimize a transition from 2&20 GP - LP structure to a permanent capital fund structure listed on the stock market. Discussing what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated VC – startup ecosystem and experiences of female VCs and VC-backed founders. Discussing investment strategy of investing in capital-efficient startups on a path to profitability, the lack of need for unicorns and lower loss rates. Karen has been a VC investing at Beringea for over 14 years. Discussing the changes and evolution of the entrepreneurial mindset in the UK and Europe compared to 14 years ago. Touching on the evolution of valuation expectations, how much capital entrepreneurs raise and exit valuations. Video: https://youtu.be/5MdD86h1wbM 

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Episode #31 – Victoria Cheng is a Partner at PruVen Capital. PruVen was established in December 2020 with an anchor LP Prudential Financial with a $300m first multi-stage fund investing in the largest industries of the global economy across #FinTech, #InsureTech, #HealthTech, #PropTech, #EnterpriseIT. Discussing the current investment themes and strategy of the new fund, but also digging into the complexities of CVC aspects of managing a fund with a single LP and how to capture synergies for the corporate and the startup portfolio companies as well as best practices of CVC with a financial player as the single LP, investing during Covid and how this is evolving from the early days of the pandemic to now and how entrepreneurs and investors need Silicon Valley and New York networks, but do not necessarily need to live in those super-city centers. Video: https://youtu.be/lNdS3A7VJiM. 

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Episode #30 – Patrick Sheehan is a founder and Managing Partner of The Environmental Technologies Fund - ETF Partners which he established nearly 15 years ago. Discussing the evolution of environmental / cleantech / green / sustainable technology companies and venture capital’s ability to support them. How this has changed from 2006 before the term cleantech was a buzzword to the dark days of Solyndra and now the current state of capital efficient AI, ML and software driven innovation as well as the Industrial Internet of Things, Limited Partner climate and attitude to the sector, the willingness of large corporations to believe climate change exists and their responsiveness, the willingness of consumers, large corporations and governments to adopt green premiums for sustainable solutions, the tipping point of green technologies being profitable compared to conventional solutions, applying IT and AI to large industries such as shipping, supply chain, digitations, travel and all human workflows. Patrick has worked in venture capital since 1985, when he joined 3i. He was instrumental in founding 3i's venture capital practice, and later became the founding Managing Director of its Silicon Valley operation. Patrick was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Invest Europe from 2007 to 2010, during which time he also chaired the Venture Capital Committee. Video of this podcast https://youtu.be/njvuY-xhg9k. 

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Episode #29 – Mohanjit Jolly, Cofounder & Partner of Iron Pillar, on Fireside with a VC talking about his strategy to invest in Indian-based growth companies and connecting them to Silicon Valley and around the globe for worldwide expansion. Brilliant VC fund strategy with a great track record and pedigree. Also talking about his time as a Managing Director at DFJ and Garage Technology Ventures working with Guy Kawasaki and Bill Reichert back in the day. Video of this podcast https://youtu.be/qEPPLMibOdg. 

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Episode #28 – Matus Maar, Cofounder & Managing Director of Talis Capital, on Fireside with a VC, investing 33% US, 33% UK, 33% Europe, talking about how Covid is changing our industry, investment themes, the revenue growth of startups and scaleups in the VC market compared to the stock market, fintech and cybersecurity, emerging business models we are investing in, what generation Z is wants and how that is impacting greater society, improving liquidity in the privately held VC asset class, Talis’ model of LPs investing into a new fund each year as opposed to doing capital calls. https://youtu.be/qEPPLMibOdg. Audio only of this discussion on all podcast platforms. 

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Episode #27 – Ernst Theodor Sack, Partner at Blue Bear Capital, an early-stage VC in Los Angeles on Fireside with a VC. Talking about investing in high-growth technology companies across the energy, infrastructure, and climate industries as well as the new 2.0 generation of capital-efficient startups tackling humanity's most compelling challenges. How AI and enterprise software are reinventing both renewable and conventional energy systems. Discussing the dynamics of raising a first-time fund and a Fund II for a new VC franchise and building a powerful LP base. Investing in early revenue companies through to Series A and B. Video of this podcast at https://youtu.be/YEB7C32TyNs. 

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Talking about how to evaluate an investment opportunity and what drives a VC to invest or pass on a deal, the dynamic of operator turned VC, how to start a VC fund, how to raise LP capital, raising LP capital from small angels and larger LPs, evolving a strategy for portfolio construction to neutralize early stage risk and optimize the impact of the best exits, what percentage of a fund should go into follow ons and pro ratas, policies around pro-rata investing, getting into the details of financings at seed, late stage seed, A and into late stage large rounds and the behavior of larger VCs working with smaller earlier stage VCs. Video at https://youtu.be/sosRs_L07rQ. 

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Talking about how Telstra Ventures migrated from an on-balance sheet / full-time employee business unit CVC to an independent 2&20 VC fund controlling its own IC (Investment Committee) and diversifying its LP base to include HarbourVest and other financial LPs. Discussing the evolution of a CVC with the Investment Committee (IC) changing and evolving. Video of this podcast at https://youtu.be/kj2BlCBnJM4. 

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Ed leads technology investing at Albion, where they have backed over 200 companies over 22 years, delivering top quartile investment performance. Discussing the personality characteristics in a founder when deciding which entrepreneurs to invest in, leadership and culture eating strategy for breakfast, tech trends exciting Ed now including RegTech or regulatory technologies, and explaining the Venture Capital Trust (VCT) system. Albion is one of the largest 2 VCTs in the UK. Also discussing EIS tax scheme for investors, raising capital from VCs and investing during Covid. https://youtu.be/ID46cvZTzv4 Find audio only on all podcast platforms including Spotify. 

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Per is a cofounder of GP.Bullhound, a $400m AUM VC and investment bank with 125 deal makers across 10 offices in Europe, the US and Asia. Discussing investment strategy, getting into category winners, primaries, secondaries, M&A market dynamics, the impact of CIFIUS on Chinese acquisitions of European and American startups, the future of global entrepreneurship, VC and investment banking. My favorite quote of the podcast “What kind of investment manager are you if you haven’t met the management team prior to March?” Full video: https://youtu.be/yaTmYZOeiYI 

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Episode #22 – Fabrice Grinda, cofounder of FJ Labs, invested $284m into 571 startups, 193 exits, IRR of 62%, former cofounder of OLX, classified in emerging markets, Zingy, which reached $200m ARR and profitable in 4 years. We talk about startups and raising funding in the US, Europe and around the world. Full video https://youtu.be/eK_rzNhnplU 

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Episode #21 – Garrett Goldberg, Partner, Bee Partners, active Seed VC in San Francisco talking about investing during Covid, portfolio construction to neutralize risk and maximize venture returns, timelines to complete exits, details of terms for pre-seed and seed rounds, side letter agreements to give preferred rights to investors when investing via convertible notes and SAFEs, how to form a board and be a great board member for early stage startups and how that should evolve over time, what technology sectors are most exciting to Bee Partners right now, seasoned advice for anyone making early stage investments or raising early stage venture capital. Full video file at https://youtu.be/Lh9i4Lch4p8. More videos at https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC.

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Episode #20 discussing how In-Q-Tel came into being and how it has evolved to be investing for strategic benefits on behalf of 8 U.S. intelligence agencies and how In-Q-Tel partnerships with startups can add enormous value and revenue opportunities to startups around the world in working with the U.S. government such as Palantir. Discussed other issues such as CIFIUS and FIRMMA. More information on that here: https://nvca.org/cfius-vc-3-takeaways-from-the-final-rules-and-what-investors-must-know/. George is an active board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Prior to joining In-Q-Tel 10 years ago, George was an executive at HP, Silicon Valley’s original startup and a career venture capitalist, former manager at Blueprint Ventures, Redleaf Group and El Dorado Ventures. Full video of this episode at https://www.youtube.com/AndrewRomansVC.

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Episode #19 - Fireside with a VC – Harrie Vollaard, founder and Managing Director of Rabo Frontier Ventures, talking about best practices of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Fund of Fund (FoF) + direct investment strategy, strategic vs financial returns, how to manage the separation of Corporate Development / M&A and investments / CVC, coming up with frameworks to agree on investment themes with the Board of Directors of the bank and heads of Business Units (BUs), how to smoothly manage a CVC Investment Committee (IC), delivering real value to startups, leveraging assets of the bank and creating partnerships among BUs and portfolio companies. Video: https://youtu.be/n5jvPCLTFJ4

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Episode #18 Fireside with a VC – Eran Davidson, founder of venture debt firm Davidson Technology Growth Debt in Berlin. Former founder of Hasso Plattner Ventures, the venture arm of the cofounder and former chairman of SAP. As of August 2020, Forbes reported that he possessed a net worth of $17.9 billion. Eran explains how venture debt works, when to take it, what percentage of a funding round should be venture debt, how to minimize dilution to founders and existing investors, what interest rates to expect, how much warrant coverage, supply vs demand for venture debt in Europe, who are the major players in Europe, trade offs of debt, dilution, risk, performance of the venture debt asset class, default rates, how Europe is evolving, the impact of Bexit on Berlin and other European capitals and how what to discuss next. We even discuss his VC fund he and Hasso Plattner founded in Africa 12 years ago. https://davidson-capital.com/

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Episode #17 Fireside with a VC – Marcus Frampton, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, the largest sovereign wealth fund in the United States. Talking about how to manage such a large pool of capital, allocations to different asset classes and strategies to balance the fund during Covid and other fluctuations in the market, the IPO markets, domestic and emerging publicly traded equities, the OTC and micro-cap markets, real estate, fixed income, private credit, infrastructure, hedge funds, PE, VC and direct co-investments and how to grow the value of the permanent fund for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Refreshing conversation with Sammy, a VC in Dallas Texas, about a very down to Earth approach to Venture Capital and the innovative way he started and has grown his venture capital business with a new fund every year. https://youtu.be/ZZmY0cC01-U. Full audio on all major podcast platforms. Search Spotify, iTunes, etc. “Fireside with a VC” 

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Episode #15 – Sean Seton-Rogers, cofounder of ProFounders Capital - Fireside with a VC – London VC, Former Benchmark Capital Europe / Balderton.Talking about founding ProFounders Capital and its initial launch strategy, current position in the UK & European venture landscape, portfolio construction and investment strategy, the impact of Brexit, how ProFounders delivers value to startups, IRR vs cash-on-cash multiples, the evolution of the British and European startup and venture ecosystem and absolute performance. Follow “Fireside with a VC” and watch video @ https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. 

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Bryan Ciambella Partner at Antler in New York talking about working at B Capital Group, working with Eduardo Saverin co-founder of Facebook, Boston Consulting Group, CVC, the Samwer Brothers at Rocket Internet, New York vs LA for startups and VC and the impact of SPACs. Video at https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. 

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Talking about the early days of VC in Silicon Valley, cofounding Draper Johnson with Bill Draper, working with Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, Tom Perkins, cofounder of Kleiner Perkins and Brook Byers, who worked for Pitch before becoming the “B” in KPCB. VC advisor in Central and Eastern Europe. Great advice and wisdom for all of us.  Full video on “Fireside with a VC” https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC

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Talking about the evolution of SPACs, IPOs, secondaries, liquidity and investing in growth tech ventures.

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Talking about launching MVPs and bootstrapping startups, recruiting advisors, initial angel investors, solo founder vs team of cofounders, how to deal with evolving MVPs and initial customers, raising capital over Zoom and investing over Zoom, how to select your VC and dealing with running out of cash. Great other VCs on the panel with me. 

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Jason Calacanis, legendary Silicon Valley angel investor from LAUNCH, first or first-5 investor in Uber, Calm, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Datastax, Thumbtack, Fitbod and Desktop Metal as well as my co-investor in a number of companies including Superhuman talking about the good, the bad and the ugly of Silicon Valley investing.

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Talking about how corporates can access external startup innovation as well as develop internal innovation. Also talking about how the Startupbootcamp accelerators work, what is the value the startups get and how the programs work. Discussed the growth path of how Startupbootcamp Global has grown into so many programs on 5 continents and the addition of other businesses such as Accelerator Squared, Innoleaps and The Talent Institute. 

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Discussing legal details and lessons learned for founders, angels and VCs with Roger Royse, Partner and legendary VC lawyer at Haynes and Boone, LLP in Silicon Valley. Docs needed to start your company, angel and VC funding, convertible notes and priced rounds, liquidation preferences, other key terms of a term sheet, M&A, carve-outs, bankruptcy and more. Roger is an active angel investor, entrepreneur and author of Dead on Arrival: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Start-Up. Full video of this podcast at Fireside with a VC YouTube Channel. 

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Discussing VC Fund of Funds (FoFs) with André Jaeggi, former Managing Partner, Adveq, a $10bn+ FoF in Zurich on podcast “Fireside with a VC”. André is also a personal investor in 7BC Venture Capital and Rubicon Venture Capital. André also wrote the foreword to Andrew’s first book on venture capital. Full video of this podcast https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC.

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Discussing meditation for startups with Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners in London on podcast “Fireside with a VC”. How meditation will be understood to be as necessary as physical exercise. Nic is a former Partner at DFJ Esprit and former Associate at Reuters Venture Capital. Find and subscribe to audio on Spotify, iTunes, Google & other podcast platforms at anchor.fm/andrew-romans. Full video at youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. #meditation #startups #London #venturecapital #VC

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