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Vanda Vovk

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Born in 1986, a Ukrainian journalist and copywriter specializing primarily in tech and financial media.

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Interviews July 3, 2020

Andrew Romans (7BC Venture Capital & Rubicon Venture): Our basic rule is if we cannot add value, we will not invest

Interviews June 28, 2020

Whitney Sales (Acceleprise): We want people who have indicators of perseverance and who are passionate about the space and the market

Interviews June 25, 2020

Bill Trainor (Mutual Capital Partners): Even with the best technology, you have to have a world-class management team and a board of directors around them

Interviews June 15, 2020

SC Moatti (Mighty Capital): Don’t try to be different because what is going to make you stand out is the quality of your team, the size of the problem you’re solving, the defensibility of your solution and your revenue traction

Interviews June 4, 2020

Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Social Venture Circle): Our criteria are very strong on impact, but we also expect the financial return, this is not a philanthropic giving

Interviews June 2, 2020

Anurag Chandra (Fort Ross): We’re not conservative, we’re not aggressive, we’re Fort Ross, we’re no different today than we were before COVID started

Interviews May 21, 2020

Sergey Gribov (Flint Capital): Nobody in the normal mind would invest in a company that has more chances to fail than to succeed, but that’s what we do

Analytics May 18, 2020

Survival strategies for startups during the crisis

Interviews May 15, 2020

Matthew C. Le Merle (Fifth Era & Keiretsu Capital): We are working very hard on supporting teams that are transitioning the world to a digital world

Interviews May 5, 2020

Hernán Fernández Lamadrid (Angel Ventures): I think that this COVID crisis will be a very important test for many founders, and a capability to survive will guide them through the rest of their founding life

Interviews April 21, 2020

Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners): “Entrepreneurs need to know their market really well and have a compelling value proposition”

Interviews April 14, 2020

Vijay Tirathrai (Techstars): “We don’t incubate ideas, we accelerate a proven viable product”

Interviews April 6, 2020

Enis Hulli (500 Startups): “We only invest into entrepreneurs who we feel like they are smarter than us”

Analytics April 2, 2020

What we tweet vs what we invest

Interviews March 30, 2020

Tarek Assaad (Algebra Ventures): “In the context of Egypt we like businesses that are very local”

Interviews March 25, 2020

Wael Amin (Sawari Ventures): “We are looking for self-aware teams that have a realistic view of what they know and what they need to improve”

Interviews March 18, 2020

Dr. Jeffrey Chi (Vickers Venture Partners): We find technologies that make a difference and solve very big problems