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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Anne Dwane from Village Global, an early stage venture fund backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos, Sara Blakely, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Magic Johnson and Anne Wojcicki. Previously she co-founded Military.com, a social and professional network for service members and veterans that was acquired by Monster. Also, she was the CEO at Zinch, a network connecting students with colleges and scholarships. Zinch was acquired by Chegg, where she served as Chief Business Officer, before and after the IPO. 

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Anne Dwane

05:31 Building a venture firm vs. work as a founder

10:33 The founding story of Village Global

15:08 Advice for individuals just starting out in venture

20:14 Origin of Chegg

24:53 Quick hack on investor updates

30:22 Figuring out how to fine tune your process as an investor

Show notes:

Anne Dwane | https://twitter.com/adwane?lang=en

Village Global | https://www.villageglobal.vc/

Zinch | https://www.chegg.com/

Military.com | https://www.military.com/

Christopher Michel | https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelchristopher/

Monster.com | https://www.monster.com/

Adam Corey | https://mobile.twitter.com/frumpy

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today I'm joined by my good friend Elana Dickman, an investor at Red Beard Ventures. She started her career at top consulting firms such as KPMG and Deloitte. She has built a reputation for herself as a content creator with her podcast, The Girls Table, where Web3 individuals chat about ideas, investments, the future, and more. Elana is an angel and NFT investor as well.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Elana Dickman

04:55 Transition from consulting to venture

10:00 Increasing connections through crypto events

15:05 Diving into the world of web 3

20:45 3 common mistakes founders make

25:22 Elana's favorite concerts

Show notes:

Elana Dickman | https://mobile.twitter.com/tradingfemale

Red Beard Ventures | https://redbeard.ventures/

The Girls Table | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-girls-table/id1625030412

Drew Austin | https://mobile.twitter.com/drewaustin

Power of Habit | https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X

Ready Player One | https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Emily Herrera, creator and investor from Night Ventures. If you don’t already know Emily from Twitter, you may know her from her previous roles as the Regional Community Lead for Built By Girls and a venture fellow at On Deck, Republic, Dorm Room Fund, and Contrary. Before becoming an investor at Night Ventures she worked at Harlem Capital and BBG Ventures. Em is also the founder and Syndicate Lead for The Wiress, the women student-startup network for young women defining, using and creating technology. 

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Emily Herrera

03:47 Emily's Love of Fan Fiction Culture

06:46 How Emily's star sign affects her investing

11:16 How Wiress Started

16:25 Defining a "vibe check"

23:55 The pressure for young people to be creators

32:11 Who has made the greatest impact on Emily's journey?

Show notes:

Emily Herrera | https://twitter.com/emilyhxrrera

Night Ventures | https://nightventures.com/

Ben Matthews | https://twitter.com/bentwitr

Wiress | https://www.thewiress.com/

Girls Who Code | https://girlswhocode.com/

Built by Girls | https://www.builtbygirls.com/

Nisha Dua | https://twitter.com/nish67

BBG Ventures | https://www.bbgventures.com/

Cody Ko | https://www.youtube.com/c/codyko

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Jamie Rhode, Vice President at Verdis Investment Management where she’s focused on venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund investment sourcing and due diligence. She joined Verdis from Bloomberg, where she held roles in both equity research and credit analysis. There, she created, managed, and leveraged an extensive library of statutory and financial, and market data for buy and sell-side clients that use Bloomberg to make investment decisions.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Jamie Rhode 

04:51 Correlation between # of portfolios and unicorns captured

11:11  Love for therapeutics and life science

16:15 Tips on finding an investment

21:40 Two types of family office worlds

26:40 Advice for emerging managers for 2022

Show notes:

Jamie Rhode | https://twitter.com/lady10x?lang=en

Verdis Investment Management | https://www.verdisinvestment.com/

Bloomberg | https://www.bloomberg.com/

Stripe | https://stripe.com/

Coinbase | https://www.coinbase.com/

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Turner Novak, Founding Partner of Banana Capital. Turner launched Banana Capital in 2021. Prior, he ran all venture capital investing at Gelt VC and invested their second fund. Prior to Gelt, Turner was a member of the investment team at Afore Capital, where he invested in pre-seed companies. Turner previously helped manage a $1.6b endowment, and prior to that worked in credit, private equity, and corporate finance.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Turner Novak
04:00 Turner Novak’s whistling talent
9:15 Investing in eCommerce platforms
14:45 How Turner makes LPs more money
20:00 Funny Cold Emails
26:18 Turner’s philosophy on scaling his venture team

Show notes:
Turner Novak | https://twitter.com/turnernovak

BeReal | https://bere.al/en

New Wave | https://www.newwave.vc/

Jean de La Rochebrochard | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeandlr/

Olivia Deng | https://twitter.com/olivia_deng_

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Seed to Harvest is a new podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, a classic seed stage investment firm based out of San Francisco, CA. Charles is a serial entrepreneur, previously founding Bionic Panda Games, 3rd Power LLC, and CH3 Media Holdings. Prior to founding Precursor Ventures he served as a Partner at Uncork Capital and as a Senior Associate at In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA. He is currently a Lecturer at Stanford’s GSB and a Board Member of multiple organizations, including H2, LightSide Games, Populus, and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Charles Hudson

05:35 Uncork Capital Founder Jeff Clavier doing it all

11:16 People sometimes make mistakes

18:08 What has changed at Precursor Ventures?

22:32 How Charles Hudson effectively manages relationships

28:30 Tips for writing an investor update

Show notes:

Charles Hudson | https://twitter.com/chudson?lang=en

Precursor Ventures | https://twitter.com/PrecursorVC

Jeff Clavier | https://twitter.com/jeff?lang=en

Uncork Capital | https://twitter.com/uncorkcap

Rashaun Williams | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashaunlwilliams/

Sydney Thomas | https://twitter.com/sydneypaige10?lang=en

Fern Mandelbaum | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fern-mandelbaum-a485851/

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by one of our investors Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS LLC and co-founder for 8 technology companies since 1981. In the 1970s, she helped create the internet working with Vint Cerf to develop TCP/IP at Stanford. She’s the author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy and is passionate about the impacts of technology on democracy and society. Judy has served on the boards of FedEx Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Sun Microsystems, The Medium Company, and KQED as well as the Walt Disney Company, where she served for fifteen years.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Judy Estrin

05:26 Judy's Book: Closing the Innovation Gap

11:08 Stifling innovation as opposed to creating it

15:37 Basic vs applied research

20:47 We need innovation around how we think about innovation

28:50 The future: fear and excitement

Show notes:

Judy Estrin | https://twitter.com/jlabsllc?lang=en

JLabs LLC | http://www.jlabsllc.com/

Closing the Innovation Gap| https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Innovation-Gap-Reigniting-Creativity/dp/0071499873

Out of Whack! | https://medium.com/@judy_estrin/out-of-whack-3aab64d28625

Vincent Cerf | https://twitter.com/vgcerf

David Carrico | https://twitter.com/davidacarrico

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Seed to Harvest is a new podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

On this episode, I speak with co-founders of Biom, Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger. Biom creates the world's first biodegradable and home-compostable wipe system. Better for you, better for the planet. Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger are passionate about reinventing stale, wasteful categories to protect and improve lives. Will Gahagan has 10+ years selling a range of enterprise software across broad range of industries (Financial Services, Tech, Government, Defense, Consulting). Hank Schellenger has 10+ years of experience in design work including previous roles at FABLab at UNC Charlotte and as an owner-manager at ECCENT Design Build, LLC. Currently, he serves as Chief Product Officer at Biom.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger

00:49 Shaking up the wipe industry

05:00 Skills for launching Biom

14:08 Improved wipes packaging

29:24 Will and Hank's process behind evaluating investors

Show notes:

Will Gahagan |  https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-gahagan-a055341b/

Hank Schellenger | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hank-schellenger-13770a42/

Biom | https://www.linkedin.com/company/getbiom/

The Hard Thing About Hard Things | https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205

Shoe Dog | https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Phil-Knight/dp/1508211809

Open | https://www.amazon.com/Open-Autobiography-Andre-Agassi/dp/0307388409

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Seed to Harvest is a new podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

On this episode, I speak with La Famiglia VC, Judith Dada.  Judith Dada, general partner at La Famiglia, an early-stage venture firm backed by leading tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the U.S. Previously she worked as a solutions manager for Facebook and lead Facebook’s venture program. She is passionate about creating an ecosystem based on creativity, equity, and inclusion for all. La Famiglia is an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Judith Dada
00:50 How Judith's youth impacted her career journey
07:00 working in VC: the greatest privilege on earth
09:47 How Judith's design aesthetic has influenced La Famiglia
19:58 Focusing on equity and inclusion to create greater opportunities in the ecosystem
22:25 Advice for aspiring investors

Show notes:

Judith Dada | https://twitter.com/dadajudith?lang=en

La Familia | https://twitter.com/LaFamigliaVC

Artsy.net | https://www.artsy.net/

Revolut | https://www.revolut.com/en-US/

N26 | https://n26.com/en-eu?utm_content=homepage&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=twitterbio

Forto | https://forto.com/en/

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