Fireside with a VC

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 busines...

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 vulner...

#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...

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 w...

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 prepara...

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.   Dis...

#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 discussi...

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? ·...

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...

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 lower...

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 Y...

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 A...

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...

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 sec...

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 wor...

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. · I...

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 versu...

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...

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 rel...

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 no...

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 en...

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 techniq...

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 fund...

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,...

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 a...