In this week's Weekly Roundup on February 1, 2019, we cover

• The reasons behind Tesla releasing all of its patents
• Management essentials for startups according to a VC
• Apple’s shutdown of apps that Facebook uses
• Disparities in health care and AI
• How tech salaries are stagnating, and 
• New communications technology using laser audio techniques. 

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Welcome to our podcast show, The Weekly Roundup. At the end of every week, we bring you a roundup of the latest articles and trends from VCs, interest pieces from around the web, and the need-to-know tech and startup news from the past week.

In this episode on January 25, 2019, we cover:

• The allegations behind the Oracle lawsuit
• David Bowie’s future internet thinking 
• What big tech lobbying means for privacy laws
• EU's antitrust enforcer on the way out
• Nest camera's alert of a missile attack
• The rise and fall of meal delivery startups
• Screen-sharing technology to watch, and
• Boeing's flying car

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Welcome to our podcast show, The Weekly Roundup. This show is part of the Silicon Valley Startup Podcast, which is brought to you by Founders Floor, a coworking accelerator for startups here in Silicon Valley.

At the end of every week, we’ll bring you a roundup of the latest articles and trends from VCs, interest pieces from around the web, and the need-to-know tech and startup news from the past week.

In this episode on January 19, 2019, we have a roundup from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, news from Mastercard’s new policy around companies that automatically bill consumers, how tech workers are uniting against forced arbitration, China’s role in the global economy, thoughts on Slack’s new logo and much more.

Welcome to our new podcast show, The Weekly Roundup.

At the end of every week, we’ll bring you a roundup of what’s been happening in the world of tech and startups. We gather the latest articles and trends from VCs, as well as interest pieces from around the web and, of course, the down and dirty need-to-know news from the week.

In this episode on January 12, 2019, we’re looking at how Amazon rose to the top, the best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs that came out of 2018, the rise of audio - according to Marc Andreessen, and some quite compelling research the New York Times is reporting on, about the language that sits behind earning reports.

Sources from today's episode:

CNBC Enterprise - How Amazon became the world's most valuable public company

First Round Review - The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018

TechCrunch - Marc Andreessen: audio will be ‘titanically important’ and VR will be ‘1,000’ times bigger than AR

New York Times - How Companies Like Apple Sprinkle Secrets in Earnings Reports

This is Part 2 of our Fireside Chat with Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. In this episode, we cover off a wide range of topics around the fundraising process from Scott's experience at the firm that currently has $2.7 billion under management.

Here are some of the topics Scott talks about:

- How does Andreessen Horowitz feel about sole founders?
- What should founders be looking for from VCs?
- What do VCs view as seed stage and Series A investment?
- What does the fundraising process look like?
- Key differences between seed and institutional round
- What is/isn’t traction?

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We were fortunate enough to hear from Jeff Epstein, investor at Bessemer Venture Partners talk about what VCs want and needs to see from startups and entrepreneurs. The info and insights Jeff talks about are based on his immense breadth of experience as an investor - but he's successfully drawn on exactly what he would want to know if he were a founder now - knowing what he knows as a successful investor.

It's for this reason that we're excited to bring you this podcast. It's seriously info-packed and there's a lot of great advice from someone who's been part of a firm that is a venture capital institution in the United States.

Bessemer Venture Partners is the oldest venture capital firm in the United States. They didn't just see the dot com boom and follow suit - they opened their doors in 1911. The firm has over $5 billion in management and the notable names they have in their portfolio are too many to name - Yelp, LinkedIn, Shopify, Twilio, Box... the list goes on. 

You can follow Bessemer Venture Partners on Twitter, @BessemerVP, as well as us here at Founders Floor on all social channels as @foundersfloor. Don't forget to rate, comment and subscribe to stay updated when we regularly release new episodes.

As part of our Investor Series, we hear from Silicon Valley VC, Charles Hudson, currently at his own seed stage investment firm, Precursor Ventures, although at the time of this recording, Charles was at SofTech Ventures (now Uncork Capital).

In this podcast, Charles talks a lot about the fundraising process, along with some keen thoughts on founding teams and solo founders. He also gives a very realistic glimpse into how VCs approach investing - what worries them, what he wishes he hadn't passed on. In his words, 'You have to have a short memory in this job.'

Over his career, Charles has been an active investor in all different stages of the investment spectrum, from Series A and M&A, to now Pre-Seed and Seed stage. You can follow him on Twitter, @chudson, as well as us here at Founders Floor on all social channels as @foundersfloor. Don't forget to rate, comment and subscribe to stay updated when we regularly release new episodes. 

We sat down with Scott Kupor of renowned Silicon Valley VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz, to discuss all parts of the fundraising process:

• Where introductions to their investments generally come from
• Key ingredients for a successful venture funded startup
• Most common mistakes he sees in startups
• Seed stage vs series A
• What does the process look like towards funding
• Key differences from seed/angel round to institutional rounds
• Understanding different incentives for different investors
• Advice for entrepreneurs on what they should be looking for in VCs
• Thoughts on sole founders vs founding teams