Special guest Jonathan Weinberg, Founder and CEO of IKON joins us to discuss his esports startup journey. Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded successful companies in both Israel and the USA. We discuss investments, esports and best practices for running a startup in the esports space!

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Welcome to The Esports Startup!

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In this episode we talk about:

0:00 - Gene editing

2:50 - Post GDC meetings / reflection

4:50 - Introducing ourselves because we forgot

7:20 - Back to talking about post GDC fund raising

19 30 - Transparency regarding fundraising

21:39 - What Jonny and Jordan have been up to on the marketing/biz dev side

26:00 - What games we're playing at the moment

27:30 - Next steps after having investor commitments

31:00 - What's changed from the last round?

34:10 - What are we doing with the money? (joking)

36:00 - Musical interruption & speaking about our production

40:00 - Wrapping up the episode

Contact Info:

Jordan O'Hara (Marketing Director)

Jonny Hockey (Head of Biz Dev)

Welcome to The Esports Startup, Episode 6!

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This past week we were lucky enough to have Glenn Argenbright, founding partner of Quake Capital (the first Startup Accelerator we attended) and early investor in Esports One swing by the office to visit while he was in town and to record an episode of The Esports Startup with us!

Glenn played a crucial role in our early days as a company and has himself spent over 25 years as an entrepreneur, founder, and senior executive with experience running a wide variety of public and private companies, with nine exits, 3 public offerings and over $5B in value created.

In this episode, Matt speaks with Glenn about how Quake Capital came to be, what exactly they look for in startups that apply, and what to expect once you make it into their program!

Thanks for tuning in to our first-ever episode of The Esports Pro Panel! To our loyal "The Esports Startup" listeners, we have another episode coming soon and we hope you enjoy this while you wait!

This was a fairly last minute content collaboration between Esports One, Parkes Ousley, Tanner (Damonte), Philippe (Vulcan) and Clutch Gaming. Huge thank you to Parkes for hosting the episode and organizing with our guests, Tanner and Philippe for being down to record a last-minute podcast and providing some incredible insights, and Clutch Gaming for enabling the last minute content collaboration!

Episode 1 of The Esports Pro Panel is hosted by Esports Journalist Parkes Ouseley (@ParquesoMedia) who is joined by our esteemed guests:

Tanner "Damonte" Damonte: Mid Laner for Clutch Gaming (@Damonte)

and

Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme: Support Player for Clutch Gaming (@Vulcanlol)

Parkes takes Damonte and Vulcan through a quick Q&A to get the show started, before moving on to a stats quiz & banter session about the 2019 Spring Regular Season. There are some more fun bits of the show that we won't spoil for you, and then the panel goes in for a deep look at this weekend's Playoff matches: FlyQuest vs Golden Guardians and TSM vs Echo Fox!

Hope you enjoy the first episode of The Esports Pro Panel! If you find this interesting and would like to hear more episodes in the future, tweet at @EsportsOneInc, @ClutchGaming and @ParquesoMedia to let us know!

Welcome to The Esports Startup!

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In this episode we talk about:

 1:00 — Our favorite parts of GDC (Then start talking about…. movies?)

This episode comes with a complimentary blog post that has behind the scenes info, tips and resources on this episode! Check it out and follow the Esports One Medium to see whenever we post a new article!

Contact Info:

Jordan O'Hara (Marketing Director)

Jonny Hockey (Head of Biz Dev)

 Welcome to The Esports Startup!

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In this episode we talk about:

This episode comes with a complimentary blog post that includes actual screenshots from our current Series A pitch deck, behind-the-scenes information, helpful links and more! Check it out and follow the Esports One Medium

Contact Info:

Welcome to The Esports Startup!

Join our Slack community to chat with the hosts and learn about esports, startups and funding from your hosts and community members! To learn more about Esports One, visit our site.

In this episode we talk about:

1:30 - Why we decided to start raising for Series A

4:40 - When exactly did we start raising our Series A?

11:14 - Strategizing the best way to raise Series A

16:48 - Celebrity Investments

19:05 - Timing for starting series A, early meetings, and the story of the deck

21:13 - Understanding the market and personas/archetypes

29:43 - Slide by slide through our current Deck

51:40 - The deck building process, challenges and solutions

This episode comes with a complimentary blog post that includes actual screenshots from our current Series A pitch deck, behind-the-scenes information, helpful links and more! Check it out and follow the Esports One Medium

Contact Info:

Matt Gunnin (CEO)

Email: [email protected] | Twitter | LinkedIn

Jordan O'Hara (Marketing Director)

Email: [email protected] | Twitter | LinkedIn

Jonny Hockey (Head of Biz Dev)

Email: [email protected] | Twitter | LinkedIn

 Welcome to The Esports Startup!

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In this episode we take you through:

1:25 — Closing a seed round of funding, lawyers & negotiating with your investors

This episode comes with a complimentary blog post that includes some behind the scenes pictures/details and links to the actual pitch decks, job descriptions and presentations that we used throughout our Seed Round and beyond.

 Welcome to The Esports Startup!

 Join our Slack community to chat with the hosts and learn about esports, startups and funding from community members! To learn more about Esports One, visit our site.

In this episode, we’re going to talk about where the idea for Esports One came from (spoiler alert, we weren’t called Esports One at first). We’ll also discuss what it was like to attend two startup accelerators, the value we got from them, and how we approached raising our seed round of funding afterwards.

 Contact Info

Matt Gunnin (CEO)

Jordan O'Hara (Marketing Director)

Jonny Hockey (Head of Biz Dev)

Welcome to The Esports Startup!

Join our Slack community to get your questions answered on an upcoming episode! To learn more about Esports One, visit our site.

In Season 1 we're going to take you on the journey of raising our Series A round of funding. You'll get a firsthand, behind the scenes look at exactly how we approach the tricky business of raising VC money to build your own esports startup. Thanks for tuning in!

Contact Info

Matt Gunnin (CEO)

Jordan O'Hara (Marketing Director)

Jonny Hockey (Head of Biz Dev)