 On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:   Mike Smerklo  Spencer Maughan  Vanessa Larco  Ben Wiener   Each investor discusses a portfolio company that did not survive and why it was that they failed.  Did you miss our guests full length episodes? Go to The Full Ratchet blog and catch up! Also, follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/27155166/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/TFR_Pod).

Investor Stories 223: Post Mortems (Smerklo, Maughan, Larco, Wiener)

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  On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:    Joe Kaiser  Michael Jones  Gaurav Jain    We asked guests to share the best question they've ever been asked by an allocator.   The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.   Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.   Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox! 

Investor Stories 344: Best LP Question (Kaiser, Jones, Jain)

 Larsen Jensen of Harpoon Ventures joins Nick to discuss TFR Declassified: Olympic Medalist and Navy SEAL on National Security, Deep Tech, and Taking Commercial Tech to Government Customers. In this episode we cover:    Startups Selling to Government Sector  Geopolitics and National Security in the Tech Industry  Startup Potential in Defense Industry  Investing in Tech Startups with a Focus on Government Contracts  AI Adoption in Government and Enterprise Sectors  Supporting Startup Founders with Differentiated Value  Drone and Counter-Drone Technology in National Security    Guest Links:    LinkedIn  Harpoon Ventures    The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.   Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.   Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox! 

429. TFR Declassified: Olympic Medalist and Navy SEAL on National Security, Deep Tech, and Taking Commercial Tech to Government Customers (Larsen Jensen)

  On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:    Tim Tully  Jules Schwerin  Morgan Beller    We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they've worked with and what makes them so special.   The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.   Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.   Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox! 

Investor Stories 343: Visionary Founders (Tully, Schwerin, Beller)

 Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital joins Nate to discuss The Future of Large Language Models, Open vs. Closed Sourced, and Why 2024 is the Year of Inference. In this episode we cover:    Venture Capital Investing Strategies and Ideal Founder Characteristics  AI Model Development and Its Future  AI Models for Legal Tech and Their Potential Applications  Tech Giants' Positioning in the AI Shift  Google's Innovation Dilemma and AI Adoption    Guest Links:    LinkedIn  X  Foundation Capital    The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.   Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.   Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox! 

428. The Future of Large Language Models, Open vs. Closed Sourced, and Why 2024 is the Year of Inference (Ashu Garg)

  On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:    Mitchell Green  Colin Walsh  Adrian Aoun    Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.   The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.   Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.   You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.   Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox! 

Investor Stories 223: Post Mortems (Smerklo, Maughan, Larco, Wiener)

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