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Brian Mac Mahon, Founder at Expert DOJO - one of the largest and most active accelerators in Los Angeles talks about fundraising for early stage startups, investment thesis of Expert DOJO and funding availability during the pandemic.

Brian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmacmahon2/

Apply to Expert DOJO: https://expertdojo.com/register/international-accelerator/

Miki Reynolds talking about accelerators in Los Angeles and SoCal: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Miki-Reynolds/

Joost van Dreunen, ex-Co-Founder of SuperData Research acquired by Nielsen in 2018 and currently Investor and advisor, lecturer at NYU Stern and Author of "One Up" talks about fundraising for his exited company and about the major trends he sees in the universities.

Joost's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joostvandreunen/

Interesting article about fundraising by Joost: https://medium.com/@superjoost/what-i-learned-from-raising-money-dda3f07272da

Book Joost wrote on gaming industry: https://www.amazon.com/One-Up-Creativity-Competition-Business/dp/0231197527

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Hasan Luongo, VP Growth Marketing at Chipper Cash, previously Director of Growth Marketing at Voicea (acquired by Cisco), Growth Marketing Lead at Fairy acquired by Postmates and Head of Growth at Honey acquired by PayPal, talks about growth marketing and how founders with no experience in this should approach it. 

Hasan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasanluongo/

Chipper Cash: https://chippercash.com/

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Poseidon Ho, Founder and General Partner at Outliers Fund talks about investing in deep tech and the real moonshots. We've also talked about crypto investing and how Outliers Fund was started and how it became what it is in 2020.

Poseidon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poseidonho/

Outliers Fund: http://outliers.fund/

Episode of FR on working with the US department of defence: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Ellen-Chang/

Audra Gold Co-founder and CEO at Vurbl Media in this episode explains how she managed to close the round after the covid hit. We've also discussed the major tactics she used while raising money and how her approach to investors changed after covid. We also talked about the moment that Vurble started getting more attention from VCs and the round got oversubscribed.

Audra's LinedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audragold/

Vurble: https://vurbl.com/

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Adrian Sedlin, serial entrepreneur with 5 successful exits and currently the CEO at CANNDESCENT, talks about - what do you need to have to raise the pre-seed round? What is FFF round (friends family and fools) and how those are being raised.

Adrian's linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-sedlin-1087473/

CANNDESCENT: https://www.canndescent.com/

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Srinivas Kilambi, founder with 2 exits and 2 IPOs and currently the Founder at Accelenovate talks about the exits in his career and one unsuccessful venture he had. We also discussed the major steps he took to get to those exits and his thoughts on the major mistake he's done in the past in terms of fundraising.

Srinivas' LiN SAB Group: Make the most of your professional life

If you want to join Srinivas' group in whatsapp ping him: whatsapp +17707140963

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Steve Walsh, angel investor, Advisory Board Member at ZenSports and the CEO at Procurrence talks about angel investments, working as an advisor, fundraising for Procurrence and comparison of fundraising in the pre-COVID VS COVID world. We also discussed Steve's work at Procurrence and how he is approaching to investors right now.  

Steve's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-walsh-a791a44/

Procurrence Inc: https://www.procurrence.com/

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Angad Singh, Founder and CEO at Casette that was acquired by Evernote and currently he is a Product Manager at Coda. And in this episode we spoke about differences between small and big startups from fundraising perspective as well as customer acquisition and much more. Touched onto an interesting pivot and a happy ending as well:)

Angad's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preetangad/

Coda: https://coda.io/welcome

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David Mandel, SoCal-based super Angel, investing in emerging technology startups who Invested in over 500 startups up to date, talks about early stage startups. We focused our conversation on how helpful accelerators can be and why founders should consider applying to those. We also talked about David's investing thesis and the way he gets his deal flow.

David's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david3712/

Emerging Ventures Capital: https://emerging.vc/

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