On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:  Grace Isford Somesh Dash Steve Blank Mark Suster  To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

Investor Stories 143: Strange & Unusual (Isford, Dash, Blank, Suster)

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 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 342: Why I Passed (Green, Walsh, Aoun)

 Brian Long of Attentive joins Nate to discuss The Playbook to Finding Product-Market Fit, When Founders Should Begin to Scale, and Lessons from Building Attentive. In this episode we cover:    Entrepreneurship, Product Development, and Market Opportunity  Strategic Decisions for Early-Stage Companies  Customer Discovery and Feedback in Product Development  Product Market Fit and Customer Acquisition Strategies  Customer Problem Evolution and Startup Success Strategies  Sales Strategies, Company Growth, and Founder Experience    Guest Links:    LinkedIn  X   Attentive    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 143: Strange & Unusual (Isford, Dash, Blank, Suster)

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