Fireside with a VC

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. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://ange...

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...

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, ent...

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 . Please use this link to inves...

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...

Author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East, with foreword by Marc Andreessen, active angel investor and VC at Next Billion Ventures, very experienced on startups and ecosystems in the Middle East, South East Asia, Brazil and other emerging markets. Former CEO of Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive, founder & CEO of HealthCentral, backed by Sequoia and Th...

Speaking as a guest lecturer at Zhejiang University, China to undergraduate students of a class on Technology & Entrepreneurship taught by a friend of mine Erik Forsberg. Talking about how to create a valuable startup with no cash and create something out of nothing, talking about various topics around fundraising, getting your board of directors right and other topics related to venture capit...

CVC 7 Forces Model for Innovation" as part of a series on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) discussing a model of how innovation, information or specific cases can be shared among these business units: CVC, Corp Dev, HR, R&D, IT, Strategy and even the Board of Directors. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this...

Jack Young, Head of Venture Capital, DTCP (Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners) in Silicon Valley on podcast “Fireside with a VC” discusses investment strategy and how to value startups from early to growth stage and how that compares with public markets. Full video of this podcast https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC . Find and subscribe to audio on Spotify, Google & other podcast platforms...

Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners in London on podcast “Fireside with a VC” discusses “Applied VC” and how his venture firm employs a Venture Studio to help portfolio companies with a range of technical and marketing services. We explore the need to add value to startups beyond just cash. Nic is a former Partner at DFJ Esprit and former Associate at Reuters Venture Capital. Full v...

"Fireside with a VC" talks to Dixon Doll , founder of DCM Ventures ($4bn AUM legendary VC) about early career, venture capital, philanthropy, & advising the Pope on VC. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  andrew@7bc.vc Subsc...

“Fireside with a VC” discusses how Covid will change office space, home working, commuting, small regional offices and the need to live in mega-cities. We even discuss the impact on marriage, babies, divorce, and more. Dan Harvey, Vice Chair of CBRE, the largest commercial real-estate services business in the world and LP investor in Andrew’s VC funds, discusses this and more with Andrew. Video ve...

Andrew Romans, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and Rubicon Venture Capital, discusses with David Blumberg specifics on what startups and VCs can do to survive and thrive in a Covid economy talking specifics on extending burn rate, lowering expenses, cutting salaries, Corona pivots, fundraising during Covid, making acquisitions, M&A exit market and the impact of Covid on the venture capi...