The Founder Initiative

193 Episodes

1. Chingona Ventures's Founding Partner, Samara Hernandez: Traction-Trumps-All

   Published: 6/16/2021
2. Silicon Matter's Founder, Olga Orda: 3 funding necessities

   Published: 6/15/2021
3. Google's Head of VC & Startup Partnerships, Mark Hall: building-in-public

   Published: 6/9/2021
4. Brown Venture Group's Dr. Paul Campbell; the economic impact of racial bias

   Published: 5/11/2021
5. Yamaha Ventures VC, Anish Patel: rising bar, $400k - $750k ARR minimum at seed stage

   Published: 5/6/2021
6. Foundation Capital's GP, Joanne Chen: the rise of ops as a B2B buyer

   Published: 5/4/2021
7. 'The 2% Rule' - Rob Ness

   Published: 4/29/2021
8. Nate Williams, Founder & Managing Partner at UNION Labs: the rise of non-technical hires...sooner

   Published: 4/27/2021
9. CEO of BuildFire, Ian Blair: AI-powered copywriting - they average 250k views/mo.

   Published: 4/14/2021
10. G. Founder of lemist; turned down $30M in funding

    Published: 4/13/2021
11. ex Intel Capital MD, Hassan Miah: event growth strategies still work

    Published: 4/9/2021
12. David Weekly; Founder & CEO of Medcorder: stop "pitching" investors

    Published: 4/9/2021
13. $360M+ AUM, Neotribe Ventures's Managing Director, Aditya Singh: Super SEs

    Published: 4/7/2021
14. Salesforce's Mathew Sweezey, Director of Marketing Strategy: 'Message to Experience'

    Published: 4/6/2021
15. $80M+ AUM, Clout Capital's German Fondevila; VCs Want Conversation NOT Presentations

    Published: 3/30/2021
16. ex Foundation Capital & Current WestWave Capital GP, Warren Weiss: large customer have increased pressure to work with startups

    Published: 3/26/2021
17. FreelanceForLaw.com CEO, Brian Bedard; how to use cold calling as an early growth strategy

    Published: 3/26/2021
18. Matik's CEO Nikola Mijic: "Champagneing" --> the best inbound strategy

    Published: 3/25/2021
19. MARL 5G Accelerator's Managing Director, Amir Khan: investors are prioritizing corporate experience > college dropout

    Published: 3/24/2021
20. $850M+ AUM, SOSV's Managing Partner, Sean O'Sullivan: why you must fire bad-fit customers quickly

    Published: 3/23/2021