Nothing Ventured

Ernst Rustenhoven is a venture capitalist working at Slingshot Ventures. Slingshot Ventures is a Dutch venture capital fund solely backed by successful entrepreneurs. Ernst is also a Board Observer at Eatch and Wundermart and a Board Member at Check and Toothfairy.

🕒 Time stamps -

00:00 - An intro to Ernst Rustenhoven

00:58 - How Ernst got into venture capital.

05:48 - What ventures is Ernst most excited about right now?

12:39 - A taster of what is to come in the main episode

🔗 Ernst Rustenhoven's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernstrustenhoven/

Web - https://www.slingshot.ventures/

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Zoltan A. Vardy helps business-to-business tech founders struggling with sales to build predictable revenues by teaching them how to focus, structure, and scale their sales and marketing activities worldwide.

👂 Listen to the Primer episode here - https://youtu.be/lZ_p_anasRY

🕒 Time stamps -

01:31 - How Zoltan Vardy closed $2 billion worth of deals in his career.

🔗 Anishka Prasad's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanvardy/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Zoltan A. Vardy helps business-to-business tech founders struggling with sales to build predictable revenues by teaching them how to focus, structure, and scale their sales and marketing activities worldwide.

👂 Listen to the Primer episode here - https://youtu.be/lZ_p_anasRY

🕒 Time stamps -

00:58 - How did Zoltan Vardy start his career?

🔗 Anishka Prasad's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanvardy/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Anishka Prasad is a former lawyer turned entrepreneur and the founder of Astra. Astra is a network of inspiring and aspiring angel investors who enable each other to grow their investment portfolios by showcasing and investing in underrepresented and female-founded businesses.

She is also the Head of Strategy & Operations at Future VC, having previously worked as their growth manager.

👂 Listen to the Primer episode here - https://youtu.be/6inO17gnflg

🕒 Time stamps -

0:00 - An intro to Anoushka

🔗 Anishka Prasad's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishkaprasad/?originalSubdomain=uk

🔗 Astra's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrainvestor/

🔗 Future VC's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-vc/

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Anishka Prasad is a former lawyer turned entrepreneur and the founder of Astra. Astra is a network of inspiring and aspiring angel investors who enable each other to grow their investment portfolios by showcasing and investing in underrepresented and female-founded businesses.

She is also the Head of Strategy & Operations at Future VC, having previously worked as their growth manager.

0:00 - Anishka talks about Astra and her career.

Anishka Prasad's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishkaprasad/?originalSubdomain=uk

Astra's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrainvestor/

Future VC's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-vc/

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Paolo is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Exceptional Ventures, early-stage Venture Capital firm based in London that invests in high-impact businesses focused on helping people live happier, healthier, and longer lives.

Prior to that he was the Managing Director for Europe at Joyance Partners, US VC firm investing in health and happiness startups. Paolo launched Joyance' European operations from scratch, invested in 25 companies across 9 EU countries, built a team of 8 world-class investors, attended and spoke at more than 400 events including the World Economic Forum and created a community of more than 1000 like-minded entrepreneurs and friends of the fund, promoting Health and Happiness along the way. This led to the fund being named among the most active EU VC by Pitchbook and one of the Hottest EU VCs by TechCrunch.

Paolo started his career at Cisco in Silicon Valley as Software Development Engineer, going on to become Technical Marketing Engineer and then Product Manager. He then moved to Switzerland to launch Cisco’s new SDN product line across EMEAR (Europe Middle East Africa and Russia) and later Asia Pacific, going from $0 to $300M run rate in less than three years. He is an Angel investor and serves in various startup boards and advisory roles. Paolo holds an Executive MBA from London Business School where he was recognized for excellence in asset management, and a Cum Laude MS Engineering degree from Politecnico di Torino. He is passionate about meditation, nutrition and exercise: he co-founded and runs a fitness training bootcamp in London, where he lives (www.urbantribe.life). Paolo speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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Paolo is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Exceptional Ventures, early-stage Venture Capital firm based in London that invests in high-impact businesses focused on helping people live happier, healthier, and longer lives.

Prior to that he was the Managing Director for Europe at Joyance Partners, US VC firm investing in health and happiness startups. Paolo launched Joyance' European operations from scratch, invested in 25 companies across 9 EU countries, built a team of 8 world-class investors, attended and spoke at more than 400 events including the World Economic Forum and created a community of more than 1000 like-minded entrepreneurs and friends of the fund, promoting Health and Happiness along the way. This led to the fund being named among the most active EU VC by Pitchbook and one of the Hottest EU VCs by TechCrunch.

Paolo started his career at Cisco in Silicon Valley as Software Development Engineer, going on to become Technical Marketing Engineer and then Product Manager. He then moved to Switzerland to launch Cisco’s new SDN product line across EMEAR (Europe Middle East Africa and Russia) and later Asia Pacific, going from $0 to $300M run rate in less than three years. He is an Angel investor and serves in various startup boards and advisory roles. Paolo holds an Executive MBA from London Business School where he was recognized for excellence in asset management, and a Cum Laude MS Engineering degree from Politecnico di Torino. He is passionate about meditation, nutrition and exercise: he co-founded and runs a fitness training bootcamp in London, where he lives (www.urbantribe.life). Paolo speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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Agata is a two-time entrepreneur (one exit) and an investor. She spent the past 7 years working in fintech. First, at a clearing house startup, second as a founder of a blockchain capital markets startup selling to major investment banks. Recently, she moved to Venture Capital, investing in fintech founders, and founded Female Foundry (femalefoundry.co) - a community and mentorship platform of over 5,000 female founders and investors across Europe with the mission to bring more diversity into the Venture Capital ecosystem and more funding to female entrepreneurs.

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Agata is a two-time entrepreneur (one exit) and an investor. She spent the past 7 years working in fintech. First, at a clearing house startup, second as a founder of a blockchain capital markets startup selling to major investment banks. Recently, she moved to Venture Capital, investing in fintech founders, and founded Female Foundry (femalefoundry.co) - a community and mentorship platform of over 5,000 female founders and investors across Europe with the mission to bring more diversity into the Venture Capital ecosystem and more funding to female entrepreneurs.

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Welcome to this episode of The Nothing Ventured Primer. Today in the studio with me I am super excited to have me Sameer Singh.

Sameer is an early-stage investor focused on network effects. "Creator" of Breadcrumb.vc and Applied Network Effects (one of the highest rated courses on Maven) — both are globally renowned resources to learn about network effects. Sameer is also a Venture Partner at Speedinvest and part of the Atomico Angel Program, where he invests in early-stage startups with network effects.

14 years of experience in the technology ecosystem — distributed between technology startups and investing. For much of this time, Sameer studied technology business models and network effects in a professional capacity and via independent projects. He Previously, spent 5 years at App Annie, a Sequoia-funded, late-stage startup during its hypergrowth phase. There, he led a global, cross-functional team, working across product, marketing, and sales. Advised leading tech companies like Spotify, Shpock and Trainline. Before that, Sameer was an early-stage investor focused on commerce businesses.

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