Valley Nordic

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and I discuss Internet of Things (IoT) market. What is the current state of the market, barriers to adoption, product development in, new opportunities for entrepreneurs in this market, and interconnectedness with Cloud, AI, Semiconductors.  We briefly discuss common hiring mistakes at Startups. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and I discuss how technology-led and business-led startups evolve differently. Business-led startups target one market and develop technologies to solve problems in that market. And, technology-led startups can target many markets with the technology under development. In general, how to think about technology commercialization. In our hot or not section we c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and Chander go deeper into the business of venture investing. How do venture firms raise money, how do the venture capitalists make money, how do they make investment decisions? We also talk about how the venture investing business has changed over the last three decades and what are the differences between Nordic and Silicon Valley approach to venture invest...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and Chander talk about the new Facebook cryptocurrency, Libra. Answer an audience question on what are the barriers to entry for WeWork, Zoom, Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft. We end with discussing SLACK- direct IPO, business model, valuation, future prospects.  Useful links: Facebook Libra  Slack S1 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and Chander talk about decision making under uncertainty and ambiguity. How it requires a different way of thinking which is different than the linear thinking we grow up with. Startups and innovation are prime examples of working with uncertainty. Our conversation discusses an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist perspectives on seven heuristics that I have...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and Chander talk about StitchFix - business model, valuation, and challenges. Then we move on to marketing - basics, common mistakes startups make, and a debate on branding. We end with hot or not i.e. tech trends in silicon valley. Today, we discuss Blockchain and Autonomous Systems.  Useful links:  1. Advertising  2. Why do we buy things? Subscribe to the p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne & Chander talk about Zoom Video Communications, Inc. [Nasdaq: ZM], one the latest tech unicorn IPOs. What is Zoom's competitive advantage? Is it sustainable? Is the stock fairly priced? Then, we discuss two very different perspectives on Product Market Fit. How the Europeans might see it differently than the Americans. Finally, we discuss two mega tr...

Send a text In this episode, Arne and I, talk about how to think about Business to Business (B2B) vs. Business to Consumer (B2C) startups. Why Arne's venture capital firm, Alliance Venture , prefers to invest in B2B startups. Then, we move to talk about hardware and software startups. Why hardware startups are hard. Nordic advantage in creating hardware startups. Finally, we discuss the capit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and I talk about Facebook's plan for a cryptocurrency, how do startups start, how to scale a startup, the skills needed at different stages for startups. We also discussed a method to find a product-market fit and growth vs profit mindsets.   A few useful links that we discussed in the podcast:  1. Blockchain fundamentals  2. Net Promoter Score (NPS) WSJ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arne and I talk about UBER (valuation, how will they make money) which is going public tomorrow,  LYFT (valuation, operations) which announced 1Q 2019 earnings earlier this week. How Uber and LYFT are different, how capital markets have changed and have led to going IPO with losses and unpredictability about their business, And, we touch on my favorite shareholder...

Send us Fan Mail Arne Tonning , a Norwegian Venture Capitalist and I, Chander Chawla , a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, started a podcast today called Valley Nordic. The podcast is a free-flowing conversation about culture, technology, and startup life. You will get four different perspectives from the podcast i.e. entrepreneur and venture capitalist; Silicon Valley and Nordic Countries.  Today we t...