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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:20 Mike Mignano I'm just a huge fan of Samil and, uh, Divya and the work they do.
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Adam Besvinick Before I started the process, I spoke to our mutual friend, Semel Shah. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:57 Harry Stebbings Samuel said on the show the other day from Haystack, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:02 Jason Lemkin When I started investing in, when, when Semo was crazy, when I started investing, all the LPs I met with talked about homebrew. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And with the funding, again, in just 13 months, Johnny's grown the team from 10 people to over 210 people across 37 countries, and in October this year, Samuel Shah awarded Hopin the label the breakout tech startup of twenty-twenty.
20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- ▶ 13:39 Barry Eggers We have a really close relationship with Semel Shah. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures
- ▶ 7:32 Harry Stebbings Samuel Shah said on the show that founders are voting with their feet in taking multi-stage money at seed.
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 24:34 Harry Stebbings I guess my question kind of subsequently from that, and it relates to an episode we did with Semel Shah, is how do you think about the entrance of multi-stage funds into Seed? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 13:00 Katie Stanton And I remember brainstorming with Semel Shah, who I think has been one of the most hugely helpful leaders in this space. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Harry Stebbings And so if we talk about one that's particularly really interesting for me at the moment, and Samuel Shah, actually, who you mentioned, said on the show that founders are voting with their feet in taking multi-stage money at seed, end quote… 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Jason has raised over eighty-four million dollars with Ironclad from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, Emergence, IA Ventures, Semo Shah's Haystack, and then obviously Ali Raugani, who led their… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings And I have to say a huge thank you to Manu Kumar, Andrew Parker, Matt Murphy, Semel Shah, and Arjun Sethi for the fantastic questions and suggestions today.
20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings I mean, we had Samuel Shah on the show from Haystack and Lightspeed, and he said that actually the best early stage managers of the next decade will be able to successfully navigate the secondary market with ease.
20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- ▶ 30:52 Harry Stebbings Again, a big thank you both to John Collahan, Eileen Lee, and Semel Shaw for the introduction today.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 19:42 Harry Stebbings I read Samuel Shaw's post the other day on how he filters and rejects slides when they're maybe just faces for teams, or they don't explain their kind of value prop well enough in the first slide.
20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And to date, HashiCorp have raised over seventy-four million in BC funding from many friends of the show, including Scott Rainey at Redpoint, Glenn Solomon at GGV, Semel Shah, True Ventures, and Mayfield, just to name a few.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to friend of the show Semel Shah at Haystack for the intro to Hans today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They're backed by the leading investors and past guests, including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Spark Capital, Semil Shah, Manu Kumar, Tim Draper, and Kamal Ravikant, just to name a few.
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings Samuel Shaw, one of your investors, asks, how would you like startup financing to be regulated in the future then?
- ▶ 23:12 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so much from Manu and Semil and Topher, so thank you so much for joining me today, and it was such a pleasure to hear more about Ishez.
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 17:16 Harry Stebbings It seems we've had Dustin Dolganow, we've had, uh, Sami Akaji, um, Kate Shillow, but then we've also got Naval Ravikant, Ryan Holmes at Hootsuite, Jonathan Abrahams at Nuzzle.