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20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings One is that we're insanely West Coast focused, and should feature some of the amazing managers outside of the Bay.
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings Okay, so I'm flying to the West Coast, and I need a book for the flight.
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings I'm flying to the West Coast.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 28:33 Harry Stebbings What must I read on my next trip out to the West Coast?
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 25:29 Harry Stebbings Ok, so your favorite book and why, what must I read on my next trip to the West Coast?
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
- ▶ 5:50 Harry Stebbings I want to focus on the ground up element, and starting with the explosion that we've seen in the world of micro VC funds, small VC funds, over 600 now on the West Coast, if you can believe it.
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 29:02 Harry Stebbings So your favorite book and why, what must I be reading on my next trip to see you on the West Coast?
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 23:32 Harry Stebbings What must I read on my next trip out to the West Coast?
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and a show which makes me wish I'd spent more time on the West Coast, as I'd love to hang out with this guest more.
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings So joining us in the hot seat today, I'm delighted to welcome Andy Flom, founder and CEO at Astro, the startup that brings email, calendar, and an AI-powered assistant together to help you focus on what's most important, and they've raised…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- ▶ 13:36 Harry Stebbings Do you think we've seen the end of party rounds in, in kind of West Coast seed financing?
20VC: Why I Do Not Regret Taking 'Peter Thiel Money', What Is The Difference Between Leadership & Management & What Conversations Are For The Founding Team Only with Tim Junio, Founder & CEO @ Qadium
- ▶ 22:17 Harry Stebbings What are some of the worst elements of Silicon Valley, having seen both the East and the West Coast, and having that perspective?
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 4:43 Harry Stebbings So what does it take then to establish a fund in the already very crowded market of West Coast financing?
20 VC 049: VC is Getting Younger with Spencer Lazar @ General Catalyst Partners
- ▶ 19:28 Spencer Lazar We have one investment on the West Coast, um, but, you know, it's sort of an emerging ecosystem, creative platform, uh, set of tools, and, uh, and sort of a new canvas, and, um, you know, if you believe that that's gonna be a big market in…