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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.

Neeraj Vohra is Chief Investment Officer at Naples Technology Ventures. A forward-thinking seasoned executive and board director with 20 years of strategic, financial management, and capital markets experience and a record of success achieving company objectives. He demonstrates the ability to create shareholder value through organic and inorganic growth as well as cost and earnings improvements. He is a founding member of FBR's technology investment banking practice and leader of the FinTech/Tech Services group.

Analytics August 16, 2021

Warm and cold introductions: how it works

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 August 10, 2021

Amos Ben-Meir (Sand Hill Angels): As an entrepreneur or investor, it's always better to be transparent and honest

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.

Blog June 23, 2021

Ultimate Startup Toolkit

Blog June 22, 2021

Rocking industries at European series A rounds

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.

Blog June 15, 2021

Unicorn Nest Policy: "Better to do and regret, than not to do and regret"

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.

Interviews May 25, 2021

Vikas Malhotra (StartUp Hub Poland): My first advice to the founders: Don't raise investment too early.

Interviews May 24, 2021

Stephan Morais (Indico Capital Partners): Entrepreneurs may not realize that this is a “Winner takes it all” game: you're either going to win the lottery or you're busted.

Interviews May 20, 2021

Don Rainey (Grotech Ventures ): The storytelling component is very important in the VC world, that’s how you identify what it is you seek to create.

Interviews May 14, 2021

Massimiliano Sulpizi (HSMI Corporate Advisory): I will never invest in a person from a rich family because entrepreneurs should have this hunger, a need to succeed.

Interviews May 12, 2021

Bas Rieter (Dutch Founders Fund): We are not always only sunshine and rainbow, because we are founders ourselves, we know how things are done, and we have walked that road.

Interviews April 30, 2021

Arnaud van der Wyck (Concrete Venture Capital): You can have 10 companies addressing a similar problem in the same competitive landscape, but ultimately you're making a bet on people.

Interviews April 28, 2021

John Frankel (ff Venture Capital): I would tell anyone who is thinking of starting a company: Think about this from the customer side.

Interviews April 26, 2021

David Lau-Kee (London Venture Partners): We want founders to be as well informed as they can about what matters to us and what matters to them in order to build a strong partnership.

Blog April 23, 2021

Cold emailing for startups: How to contact investors