Oren is a director of capital markets at Intersectional Capital. In his previous five years in the securities market, Oren has supervised and assisted in the placement of over 400 million dollars of investor capital.
Gagan Biyani had a lot working against him. He was a nobody in the startup scene who didn’t know any investors and couldn’t program. It didn’t stop him. He raised his profile by writing for one of the best known tech blogs. He connected with investors by making sure he ran into the best of them at events. And he hooked up with two sharp developers who became his co-founders.
DreamIt Ventures gives 10 startups a year a little money ($10,000 – $25,000) and a lot of mentoring to help them launch their businesses. I invited one of the seed fund’s co-founders, Steven Welch, to talk about how they pick the 10 startups and how they help turn ideas into businesses.
When Fred Wilson looked at the previous venture capital firm that he co-founded, he said, “we screwed up a bunch of things.” This is the story of how he took the lessons from that experience and launched Union Square Ventures, whose portfolio of notable tech companies includes Twitter, Zynga, FourSquare, and Etsy.
Naval Ravikant, co-founder of Venture Hacks and AngelList, helps first-time entrepreneurs turn the funding process upside down so they gain the upper-hand over investors.
Venrock is the pioneering venture capital firm that backed Apple, Intel, DoubleClick and other well-known success stories. I invited one of its newer partners, David Pakman, to find out how he went from working for Apple, to launching and running his own companies to becoming an investor.
The aim with this program is to cover the basics of venture capital, including questions like “How does a VC earn money?” and “What are the different roles inside a VC firm?”
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