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Top VCs MatchUp: Elliott Robinson Bessemer Ventures Partners, Ashley Aydin Vamos Ventures, Jason Scott ANIM Fund and Samantha Rodriguez Google for Startups.

Venture Capitalists debate the state of venture funding, Ai wave, Cloud computing, tips for the best founder intro calls, moving the needle on driving more $$ to diverse founders & funders, habits of the best founders, unpopular investment verticals, and Elon Vs Zuck!!

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Top VCs MatchUp: Nihal Mehta Partner at Eniac Ventures, Nia Johnson Investor, Olivia O’Sullivan Forum Ventures and Ollen Douglass VC & Board Advisor (Formerly Motley Fool Ventures)

Investors debate:

What should investors consider when making a bet on Ai during this frenzied environment? 

How should founders structure their fundraise?

Will VCs start using ChatGPT or Google’s BARD as an investment tool?

How important is it for founders to understand exactly how they will build a defensibility moat around their product at the pre seed / seed stage?

Cap table: What’s the ideal number to allocate for an employee option pool, why is it important and do you require the pool to be implemented before your investment?

bet a billion on anything, where you placing your chips?

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Top Venture Capitalists Elana Dickman at Red Beard Ventures, Saka Nuru at Funnder, Megan Ananian at H/L Ventures & Pete Mathias at Alumni Venutes matched up April 13th to debate the following Topics:

+ Current VC Mindset w/ SVB Disrupting Market Conditions
+ Most Exciting Verticals to Invest In & New Unicorns to look out for
+ Advising Portfolio Companies on how to handle Competition
+ PreSeed to Seed, What are most important Hires?
+ How to Navigate your Cap Table
+ What Role did VCs play in SVB debacle & what are the Long term Effects?
+ What New Jobs will be Born from ChatGPT
+ What are the Best StartUp Analogies /Stories for Success

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Soraya Darabi, General Partner & Founder of Trail Mix Ventures an early stage investment firm focused on the future of living well.  We talk through qualifying startup investments, the process of raising capital & traits of successful founders. As a 3x Mentor of the Year by Techstars, we discuss the secrets mentorship & finding a good mentor. Advice for female founders, tips for networking & the opportunities open for collaboration.

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Venture Capital Investor Panel, from Angel to IPO w/ speakers
Nikita Singareddy Investor @RRE Ventures | Kunal Mehta Principle @Hearst Ventures & Mario Gabriele @Charge Ventures Panel Presented by Entre CEO Michael Marra

Talking Covid-19 Impact on investing, raising capital & how to best strategies approach investors. What Qualities they look for in successful founders, networking & build strong relationships. Technology, healthcare tech, transportation mobility, esports and religious tech? Yes its all here!

Mario's Newsletter: https://readthegeneralist.com

Kunal’s Book https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Genius-Venture-Capital-Betting-ebook/dp/B07YCZH3NS

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Laura Chau is a Principal at Canaan Partners who focuses on investing in early stage consumer technology companies that are changing the way we live, work, and think. Laura has partnered with category-defining startups in various roles, including Coterie, Kabam, Cuyana, Branch Metrics, Greenhouse, Kustomer, and KonMari Media.

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech.

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Jeremy Levine is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in NYC.  BVP supports entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own by investing in technologies companies seed, early stage, and growth stage. From his early business career at McKinsey to working with BVP for near two decades, Jeremy gives us his principals on communication, customer acquisition, raising capital and networking. Jeremy shares a few great stories on Founders Jeremy Stoppelman at Yelp, Tobi Lutke at Shopify and the key insights that help BVP look for the roadmaps to invest.

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From Wall Street to working with Scott Harrison CEO of Charity Water. Lessons from interviewing the Founders of Betterment, Pintrest, Yippit, Eniac Ventures and others in the Venture Capital Ecosystem.  We discuss his role at Hearst Ventures and their history of Investments in Netscape, Roku, Pandora & Buzzfeed. Thoughts on Investment strategy for Transportation Mobility, FinTech, Cyber Securities and emerging areas in Media. Tips on a collaborative company culture and effective communication.

“Realizing Optionality. Embrace your failures and understand their are options and bounce back paths. Theres always more options.”

Pick up-  Finding Genius https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Genius-Venture-Capital-Betting-ebook/dp/B07YCZH3NS - Insight on How does venture capital operate and how to get funding from VCs.

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