Mark Brinkerhoff is the president of Fusion Design which is a full-service product development company located in Silicon Valley. Founded in 1990, they have worked with a variety of clients from small companies to fortune 100 corporations with engineering services.

Mark’s specialties include: Product Development Consulting, Turnkey Solutions, Industrial Design, Mechanical Packaging and Mechanism Design, Finite Element Analysis, Thermal Analysis 

We talk about:

What are soft batteries? Elastic Wiring? Limitless Multi-touch Force?

What about 5 g technology, how is that going to play a part in wearables

What is the typical design process when you are building a product?

Find out more about Fusion Design

Website https://www.fusiondesigninc.com/

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Tim Alison is an entrepreneur who has started and scaled four businesses. At the age of 31 Tim walked away from one of the highest paying sales jobs in the country, moved to a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia Canada, and started an educational software company. The naysayers laughed. They stopped laughing when his sales topped $10 million.

We Talk About

What are the basics that someone needs to know when looking at financials?

Price a product, what are some mistakes that people are making and what should they be doing that’s different?

How do you reverse engineer an opportunity, or look at an opportunity to see if it is worth doing or not?

Connect with Tim

Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-alison/

Website https://screwthenaysayers.com/podcast/

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Sherri Haskell

After witnessing firsthand, the innovation and eclecticism among cannabis startups Sherri launched CannaAngels LLC: an Angel Investor Consortium focused specifically on businesses within, and supportive of, the cannabis industry. With years of experience as an alternative investment leader she has a solid knowledge of how to vet companies, structure deals, raise capital, and establish trust. As cannabis transitions into the mainstream, her accomplished team is prepared to bring a unique blend of investment intelligence, technical savvy and steadfast integrity to this industry.

We Talk About

What are some of the different verticals of the cannabis industry?

What new laws or regulations are being discussed that will impact cannabis investing and the companies in the industry?

When will we see Wall Street enter the picture?

Where will the money be made in the industry? Where is the hidden value that investors should know about?

Connect with Sherri

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrihaskell/

Canna Angels website https://cannaangelsllc.com/

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Roger King

Founder of BayAngels

CEO of Chiefpeople

We Talk About

How has angel investing changed over the past 20 years?

Some suggestions for beginner angel investors?

What problems do startups make when pitching to investors?

Do angel groups talk to each other?

Connect with Roger

[email protected]

Bay Angels website http://bayangels.com/ns/

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055 Deep Dive into Financial Models with CEO Broadscope Consulting Brett Sharenow pt2

Trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995 he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion.

This episode we talk about:

• ·       Once you have the model, how do you use it to forecast how much money you need to raise?

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• LinkedIn

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Brett Sharenow is a trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995 he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion.

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Guest:

• Brett Sharenow on LinkedIn

This episode we talk about:

• How does a founder/CEO know that their strategy will work?

I want to thank Shmuel Silverman who made the introduction to Brett allowing this interview to happen.

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Tweet your comments about this episode directly to Shawn Flynn and the rest of The Investor’s Podcast Community using #TIPSiliconValley.

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Learn more about Brett Sharenow

LinkedIn

Email  [email protected]

Website  https://www.broadscope.com/

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For the Past 30 years Bob Karr has been both an active angel investor as well as in business development founding and growing some of the most powerful networking groups in Silicon Valley.  His current company, LinkSV is an online information service providing curated, detailed information about the senior team, board members, key partners, customers, angel, institutional and VC funding on companies in Silicon Valley.

This episode we talk about:  

• How can parents encourage their children to become entrepreneurs?

I would like to thank Brett Sharenow who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.

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For the Past 30 years Bob Karr has been both an active angel investor as well as in business development founding and growing some of the most powerful networking groups in Silicon Valley.  His current company, LinkSV is an online information service providing curated, detailed information about the senior team, board members, key partners, customers, angel, institutional and VC funding on companies in Silicon Valley.

This episode we talk about:  

• What are some of the usual questions that you ask the entrepreneur?

I would like to thank Brett Sharenow who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.

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051 Stanford to Harvard to Managing Partner at Alchemist Accelerator and More with Ravi Belani

Ravi Belani   is the Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator which is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating startups whose revenue comes from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator backs teams with distinctive technical founders.  He is also a Lecturer, Fenwick & West Educator of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University where for the past 8 yrs he co-teaches The Spirit of Entrepreneurship, an undergrad/grad survey course on entrepreneurship

We talk about:

• What were some of the companies Ravi passed on investing in and why? 

I would like to thank SC Moatti Managing Partner at Mighty Capital who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.

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• Linkedin

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050 Helping your Portfolio Companies with Managing Partner of Mighty Capital SC Moatti

SC Moatti is a technology visionary and investor.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Other than money what value can Venture Capitalists bring to the deal?

We would also like to thank CJ Terral who made the introduction that allowed the interview to happen.

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