6 Podcast Interviews with Seed Investors

There are shifts happening in the world of seed investing. Some questions are emerging: How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does an angel investor (or an entrepreneur, for that matter) mitigate the Series A gap? How do you parse Unicorn mania? As an angel

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365th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Venktesh Shukla, TiE Angels

Venktesh Shukla, founder of TiE Angels and General Partner Monta Vista Capital discusses some shifts happening in the world of seed investing.

364th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Greg Besner, CultureIQ

Greg Besner, Founder and CEO at CultureIQ, is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. We discuss both his journey as an entrepreneur, lessons thereof, as well as his methodology and philosophy of angel investing.

363rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Swati Chaturvedi, Propel(x)

Swati Chaturvedi is Co-founder and CEO at Propel(x), an online platform where entrepreneurs are connected to angels. Swati and I discussed some of the key trends of the seed financing eco-system as viewed from Propel(x).

281st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Paulo Rosado, OutSystems

Paulo Rosado is CEO of OutSystems, one of the very few enterprise software companies out of Europe, and they have succeeded in building a substantial global business.

275th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Art Papas, Bullhorn

Art Papas, CEO and Co-founder at Bullhorn, discusses how he pivoted a venture-funded startup, bootstrapped it to product-market fit and momentum, raised venture capital again to take out his original investors, and is now getting ready to go public. He also reiterated his more fundamentals-focused philosophy, emphasizing the need to attain product-market fit before raising funding.

274th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tim Hentschel, HotelPlanner and Meetings.com

Tim Hentschel, CEO at HotelPlanner and Meetings.com, has bootstrapped his company to $25M in revenue, growing 20% y-o-y organically. He emphasizes our mantra of entrepreneurship = customers + revenues + profits, financing, exit, valuation all being optional. Of course, today’s atmosphere is so frothy that such fundamental-oriented thinking has few takers.

272nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Tom Foremski, SiliconValleyWatcher.com

Tom Foremski, Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com, discusses the future of journalism and provides his views on a new business opportunity that he foresees: Media-as-a-Service (MaaS).