The Real Capitalist Podcast

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Minnie started her career as an early product manager at Google where she co-founded the Access team. Prior to joining Code for America, Minnie was COO of Shift, a Goldman Sachs and DFJ-funded company that she founded and helped the company to raise over 200 million dollars.  She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in computer science from Stanford University. Millie has recently joined TenOneTen Ventures, based out of LA, California.

Andrea Barrica is CEO/co-founder of O.school, a judgment-free multimedia platform to learn about sexuality and pleasure through videos, live chat, live streams, and more. Previously, Andrea co-founded accounting and tax platform, inDinero.com. She also served as a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups, one of the world’s most active, global seed funds.

Rachel Sipperley is the CEO and Founder of Rent My Wardrobe, a peer to peer marketplace that empowers women to generate additional income while becoming more financially savvy. The daughter of a youth pastor, Rachel came from humble beginnings and was a born entrepreneur. Her mission is to inspire and equip women and girls to become their own entrepreneur in a women-supporting-women culture and share her testimony of financial stewardship.

In this week's episode host Courteney talks all about how to Reverse Engineering Your Pitch to Win the Ask.  It's important as a founder to be able to articulate the value and future of your business. It is the key to being able to raise venture capital or securing your first customer. Today's episode will highlight some great tips to helping you craft the perfect pitch!

Sara Brand is the Founding General Partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage VC fund investing in women-led businesses in consumer health and sustainability sectors. She is also the co-founder of (512) Brewing, the largest draught-only, self-distributing microbrewery in the country. Sara was previously in venture capital and management consulting in the Bay Area as well as in a variety of strategic and operational roles in large tech companies.

Ashley Whitehurst is the Managing Director of Syndicates at LAUNCH. She beginning working as an EA for Jason Calacanis. Over the years she has grown with LAUNCH and is now the Managing director of The Syndicate fund at Launch.

In today's show, we talk all about what Syndicate funds are, as well as the benefits they bring to both founders and investors. Ashley also gives us a behind the scenes look at what running a fund looks like and insider tips on how to pitch a company to investors.

Tune-in to this week's episode with my friend 25 Freya Oehle. She is a serial entrepreneur is shaking up the German Startup Ecosystem. In today's show, we talk all about how she went from an MBA student at Northwestern to starting her first company in her parents living room in the German countryside. Freya shares with us lots of great nuggets of wisdom and some hard truths about the startup world.

Genevieve is the co-founder of Fetcher, a Manhattan-based startup combining AI with human expertise to help companies fill open positions at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional recruiting tools. Fetcher launched 2 years ago, and the team has quickly grown to over 160 employees, and they are now working with over 450 companies ranging from stealth-mode startups to the Fortune 50, to help re-imagine recruiting.

Nicola's experience working with startups has almost stretched 10 years. Originally from Ireland, where she led startup and accelerator engagement for the global technology conference, Web Summit. AT Pollenizer, an early stage startup incubator where she made waves to bring startup methods to some of the world’s largest companies.

At AGL Energy, Nicola helped define a technology ecosystem to develop a pipeline of growth companies for investment. Now, Nicola is running the Sydney program at muru-D.