Lynn-Ann Gries, Managing Partner of the First Check Fund, invested in Ohio's first "unicorn." Learn what that means and how she intends to find more incredible seed startups with enormous promise.

Laura Bordewieck Rippy, Managing Partner of Green D Ventures, shares how Dartmouth alumni investors are bringing more to venture-backed businesses than just money.

Chris Sklarin, Managing Partner of Castor Ventures—a fund investing for and in MIT alumni—shares why VC deals are so competitive and how being MIT-connected gives entrepreneurs and investors newfound access.

Amy Errett walked into a drug store, bought 30 boxes of permanent hair color solutions, and left on the verge of discovering a gaping hole in at-home hair coloring options. Now her venture-backed business is challenging beauty brand titans like L’Oreal and Clairol, but she's not intimidated at all.

Michael Martin and his team at RapidSOS are building technology that will soon be integrated into the iPhone. When that happens, having the latest iOS upgrade could save your life. Listen to this podcast to hear how the journey started for this inspiring entrepreneur and what he plans to do next to make the world a better, safer, more-connected environment.

The entrepreneur Sanjay Gupta made a bold career move after realizing he’d earned a great education but had almost no real-world experience. Now he’s a prolific inventor and a mentor to the next generation of consumer electronics developers in the Penn and MIT networks and beyond. In this podcast, Sanjay shares the lessons he learned outside the classroom and what he sees as the next phase of computing..

Frustrated that ice cream manufacturers valued shelf life more than taste and quality, this Stanford MBA graduate set out to freshen up an overly industrialized category. Nearly a decade later, she figured it out. Robyn Sue Fisher, CEO and Founder of Smitten Ice Cream relates her journey from building a prototype with a retired aerospace engineer to standing on the street corner to see if anyone would buy her product. She launched her business with a Tweet and now she has over a dozen restaurants in the works.

Before you take venture capital, angel investments or anything more than "friends and family" money, listen to this interview. Experienced founder and VC, Mike Collins, says there is only one good reason to take institutional money for your business and many entrepreneurs mistakenly ask for money when they shouldn't.

This experienced venture capitalist says you must be good at sales to succeed in any type of business. Here's Tom "TK" Kuegler's advice on how to become an effective salesperson and why that skill relates to VC.

His product has been compared to a sci-fi device, but the founder of Consumer Physics says the technology he's using has been around for years. Now he's using VC to make it accessible to everyone.