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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 15: Michael J Skok, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

As an entrepreneur of 20+ years, turned venture capitalist for the last decade+, Michael is passionate about investing to accelerate innovation and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. He is a lecturer at Harvard University, and shares lots of his amazingly relevant content on his blog.

Carlos had the chance to sit down with Michael during the Boston stop of our US Trip and ask him many questions about his background and his views on governance in a startup.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 14: Spencer Lazar of General Catalyst

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

While in NYC on our US Trip, we had the chance to catch up with Spencer Lazar of General Catalyst. Spencer has been a long-time friend and is one of those few VCs who has been a product manager turned VC turned founder turned VC again, so it was great to catch up with him and hear his story.

From GC’s website: Spencer focuses on early stage software & internet investments, with a particular interest in online marketplaces, mobile applications, web services, and enterprise IT.

He was previously the cofounder of Spontaneously, Inc – an iOS development studio. Prior to that he was an early stage software & internet investor at Accel in London, where he sourced and worked with companies including Hailo, Birchbox, Bonobos, ForgeRock, and Qriously. Preceding that, he was a growth equity investor at Insight Venture Partners, where he sourced & helped manage the firm’s investments in 3P Learning, BeyondTrust, and GenArts. He started his career as a product manager at the mobile enterprise software developer, ScrollMotion.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 2: Evaluating Interested & Existing Investors in Your Startup

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The ‘Take On:’ series sees the Seedcamp Partners, Reshma and Carlos explore various topics throughout the world of Startups and Early-stage Investment. During each episode they’ll speak with members of the Seedcamp family to hear their views; including the Seedcamp team, our Investors, Mentors, and Startups.

For the second podcast in this series, Reshma and Carlos look at what investors look for in other investors to syndicate with, but also what founders should look for in investors, when actively fundraising. They discuss:

  • why choosing your investors is like choosing a family
  • what an amazing investor looks like
  • what type of investor might be most suitable for your startup
  • why the size of your investor’s fund is worth considering
  • the pros and cons of working with specialist vs generalist skill-set investors
  • why an investor’s deal experience is important
  • how to tell if an investor might not be suitable for your startup

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For more information on what to look for in an investor, read our blog post that goes into more detail.

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Investment & Finance

Deciphering Crowdfunding For Startups

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One of the options that founders are reminded of more and more above and beyond VC and Angel funding is Crowdfunding via online platforms such as Kickstarter, AngelList, and Seedrs, to name a few. However, these platforms are not all the same and in this post we’ll cover how they differ as well as what makes them unique.
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To help better categorize the use cases for the different types of crowdfunding platforms, let’s split them into two:
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1) Cash for Product Pre-Orders – Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc.
2) Cash for Equity – AngelList (USA), Seedrs (UK), Crowdcube (UK), etc.
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Start Smart: Essential tips for the next A-Team

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Building a strong team early in your company’s life-cycle is one of the key attributes that pre-disposes your company to success and to gathering investor interest.

In this presentation, I cover some of the attributes that makes an A-Team compelling.

The Slideshare Slides for this presentation can be found here –

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