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Borys Sydiuk

Author’s bio

Borys Sydiuk is a long established writer, journalist and translator with special interests in digital marketing, IT, AI and emerging technologies. He was a part of teams behind many popular projects in book publishing, beverages and computer-related industries. He also possess ESFS Best Promoter award for Science Fiction popularization in Europe.

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Interviews February 4, 2022

Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital): In Silicon Valley failure is a feature, not a bug.

Interviews January 28, 2022

Gilman Louie (Alsop Louie Partners): The most powerful thing about venture capital is that it is filled with optimistic people.

Interviews January 20, 2022

Ashesh Shah (The London Fund): Be Brave!

Interviews October 29, 2021

Brett Martin (Charge Ventures): This is my dream job - being an entrepreneur and being an investor.

Interviews October 28, 2021

Peter Harris (University Growth Fund): When you do the hard things, it’s very impressive because VCs know that those things are hard and it will give them more conviction to back you.

Interviews October 26, 2021

Scott Nissenbaum (Ben Franklin Technology Partners): We do encourage companies to look at the social aspects - what is the social good of this business, how does it make the world a better place, how can you measure this good by whether it is hiring people from my disadvantaged background or curing a disease.

Interviews October 8, 2021

Emanuele Levi (360 Capital): Our history of finding successful companies that we have been able to support since their very early days and have worked with for many years speaks for itself

Interviews September 30, 2021

Harry Haeck (SmartFin): We prefer to have a limited number of investments we can support decently rather than a large portfolio.

Interviews September 24, 2021

Rishi Garg (Mayfield Fund): We’ll try to be the most trusted, consistent, and powerful partner that our companies have.

Interviews September 20, 2021

George Spencer III (Seyen Capital): You go to a war with these guys, and I just love the battle!

Interviews September 2, 2021

Adrian Lloyd (Episode 1 Ventures): We want to see people who clearly could get extremely highly paid jobs in other technology firms, but have chosen this one.

Interviews August 31, 2021

Peter Redford (Band of Angels): Talking to investors is not that easy - you need to be on different levels of abstraction when you talk to them than what you normally operate on.

Interviews August 27, 2021

Christie Pitts (Backstage Capital): People who are not actively doing something about their networks to include diversity will be left behind.

Interviews August 17, 2021

Neeraj Vohra (Naples Technology Ventures): The biggest surprise is the number of interesting companies you can see in a week, and some weeks it could be non-stop.

Interviews August 12, 2021

Thomas Wisniewski (RosePaul Investments and Newark Newark Venture Partners): Every company is unique but the situations and things they are going through are 90% the same.

Interviews July 30, 2021

David Gardner (Cofounders Capital): We have a joke that if we don't understand something in the first 2 minutes, we won’t invest.

Interviews July 23, 2021

Lee Greene (HealthInc): The health industry is very complex - we call it “tripod”, that has to have 3 legs in order to stand up.

Interviews July 19, 2021

Steve Berg (Lytical Ventures): I would sadly say that I haven't really invested in crazy or exotic things, but my normal world and companies there are super interesting.

Interviews July 12, 2021

Neil Callahan (Pilot Growth Equity): You need to put your own money and time into your company because you make better decisions and you are more focused.

Interviews June 30, 2021

Sonia Nagar (Pritzker Group Venture Capital): Start building relationships with investors as soon as possible and build those relationships over the long term.

Interviews June 28, 2021

Christian Lassonde (Impression Ventures): We’re looking for businesses that have built version 1 of their technology, which works, and they had acquired their first customer.

Interviews June 22, 2021

Bilal Mekkaoui (JOBI Capital): To be a good VC you need the mindset that you have to help the business you're investing in, to help founders to achieve their goals.

Interviews June 10, 2021

Amy Coveny (Quake Capital Partners): The founder needs to have the right kind of emotional intelligence to sustain being a founder and getting through all of the trials and tribulations.

Interviews June 1, 2021

Bengt Walerud (Walerud Ventures): We like a startup to have technology that can create barriers to entry and superior skills among the founders, so they can do something unique that is hard to copy immediately.