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Brian York, Co-Founder & CEO at Cubbo, and Founder and GP at Bassin Ventures talks about Latin America and how it differs from the U.S. startup ecosystem. We also talk about exits from LatAm and Brian shares his advice to founders trying to expand their network in a new country.

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

Cubbo: https://cubbo.com/

Bassin Ventures: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bassin-ventures/about/

Fundraising Radio episode about the exit of the largest e-commerce in LatAm: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Marcelo-Franco/

Amos Schwartzfarb, Managing Director at Techstars and Trevor Boehm, Venture Partner at Saturn Five, co-authors of LEVERS - The Framework For Building Repeatability into Your Business talk about writing a book together and their motivation behind it. We also talk about content generation in general and who should consider taking their time to generate content.

Amos' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amosschwartzfarb/

Trevor's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorboehm/

Levers, a book about creating repeatable processes in startups: https://www.leversbook.com/

Saturn Five: https://www.saturnfive.com/

TechStars: https://www.techstars.com/

Alex Luce, Partner at Creative Ventures, talks about investing in first-time founders, the mistakes they tend to make and the green flags that they can show investors. We also touch on some major red flags that Alex sees and how those can be avoided.

Alex's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexluce/

Creative Ventures:

Website: https://creativeventures.vc/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Creative_VC

Early stage accelerators for scientific founders and hardtech companies mentioned in the episode:

https://www.activate.org & their resources at https://www.activate.org/learn

https://chainreaction.anl.gov

https://innovationcrossroads.ornl.gov

https://nmleep.com

Endless Frontier Labs: https://endlessfrontierlabs.com

https://indiebio.co

Creative Destruction Labs: https://www.creativedestructionlab.com

Claudine Emeott, Senior Director at Salesforce Impact Fund talks about investing in impact startups and what qualifies one. We narrow in on what founders of impact startups should and shouldn’t do to benefit the most from their unique position.

Claudine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudineemeott/

An article that Claudine Emeott co-authored with a few other impact investors: Corporate Impact Investing in Innovation

Salesforce Impact Fund: https://www.salesforce.com/company/ventures/impact/

Preethy Padman, Impact investor talks about who qualifies as an impact startup,  what the major benefits of that status are, and how to reach out to impact investors: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Preethy-Padman/

Benjamin Narasin, Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates talks about changes he’s seen in the VC space over the last decade+, and about the process of taking one of his companies public. We also discussed alternatives to the pitch decks and ways founders can speed up their fundraising process.

Benjamin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennarasin/

NEA: https://www.nea.com/

Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BNarasin

Ben's blog: Ben Narasin's Writings. Sybaritic & Silicon Valley.

John Helm, Managing Director at Real Estate Technology Ventures talks about investing in proptech, and details the emerging market of rent-tech. John spoke about the future of this field and where he sees rent-tech going in the U.S. as the pandemic reaches its end. We also spoke about the two companies that John  has sold and how he arrived at and identified his exit points.

John's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-helm-00820a1/

Real Estate Technology Ventures: https://www.ret.vc/

Another episode on PropTech here.

Lee Greene, former founder and CEO of WearAway and current creator & host of the Stairway to CEO podcast talks about making the pivot from startups to airwaves. We also spoke about the acquisition of WearAway and the company got to that point.

Lee's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leegreene/

GRIN, the company that acquired WearAway: https://grin.co/

Stairway to CEO podcast: http://stairwaytoceo.com/

Stacy Stubblefield, Co-Founder and CIO at TeleSign talks about landing their first big customer, which started a chain reaction that brought in even more. We spoke about the value of implying who your customers are without disclosing their names and how it can lend you validity in the eyes of potential customers. We also spoke about the acquisition of TeleSign by BICS in 2017. 

Stacy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacystubblefield/

TeleSign: https://www.telesign.com/

What kind of questions should you ask your future pre-seed investor? All in this episode of Fundraising Radio: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Scott-Krivokopich/

Thibauld Favre, co-founder and CEO of Fairmint talks about a new way to raise money from your customers on an ongoing basis. CAFE stands for Continuous Agreement for Future Equity—continuous being the key word—and this new form of fundraising is on the rise.

Fairmint's website: https://fairmint.co/

For those who aren’t very familiar with standard SAFEs, here's an episode with Phil Nadel where we discuss them: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Phil-Nadel/

CAFE of Opengrants: https://invest.opengrants.io/signin

Thibauld's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibauld/

Anil Advani, founder and managing partner at Inventus Law and founding member and legal advisor at Excelerate talks about choosing the legal support that best suits your startup. We compare pricing of small and big law firms and some automated software that can help startups avoid working with lawyers altogether. Anil also talked about how lawyers should be open to working with such software and supporting startup founders even when things go south.

Anil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadvani/

Inventus Law: https://www.inventuslaw.com/

Excelerate: https://excelerate.it/

Other episodes of Fundraising Radio related to law: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/category/legal/