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The Syndicate episodes

  • China Startups
    An investor in the likes of FitMob and Shyp, Sajid Rahman is an executive level leader with industry leading experience in emerging markets, helping companies expand internationally and the Asian startup landscape. He started the first tech accelerator program in Bangladesh, runs an AngelList syndicate, sits on the board and advises numerous startups and is an active angel investor himself.
    Listen and Learn:

    * How angel investors should think about Asia
    * Why emerging markets drive massive returns
    * The new Silicon Valley’s worldwide
    * How to help with deal flow
    * What AngelList is doing to change early stage
    * How AI companies can attract investors
    * Why the next BIG tech company is coming from China


    Sajid Projects:
    Sajid’s AngelList profile
    Sajid’s syndicate
    Sajid’s blog
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.An investor in the likes of FitMob and Shyp, Sajid Rahman is an executive level leader with industry leading experience in emerging markets, helping companies expand internationally and the Asian startup landscape. He started the first tech accelerator program in Bangladesh, runs an AngelList syndicate, sits on the board and advises numerous startups and is an active angel investor himself.
    Listen and Learn:

    * How angel investors should think about Asia
    * Why emerging markets drive massive returns
    * The new Silicon Valley’s worldwide
    * How to help with deal flow
    * What AngelList is doing to change early stage
    * How AI companies can attract investors
    * Why the next BIG tech company is coming from China


    Sajid Projects:
    Sajid’s AngelList profile
    Sajid’s syndicate
    Sajid’s blog
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
    29 min
  • Missing Uber Seed Round By Hours and The Evolution of Silicon Valley with Maarten ‘t Hooft
    Maarten’s a developer that has seen the evolution of Silicon Valley, from Sun Micro System to Google and finally launching his own micro VC fund. Quest Ventures is industry agnostic and looks for opportunities in early stage startup companies. With some big hits, some big misses, the firm is actually founder friendly and has a great partner team of genuinely good guys.
    Listen and Learn:

    * The evolution of Silicon Valley
    * How Google and Sun Micro Systems stagnated
    * The challenges of corporate creativity
    * Missing out on Uber’s 15,000x return
    * How to build a nimble venture fund
    * The gut instinct that all angel investors need
    * How syndicates are changing investing


    Maarten’s Projects:
    Maarten’s AngelList profile
    Quest Venture Partners
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Maarten’s a developer that has seen the evolution of Silicon Valley, from Sun Micro System to Google and finally launching his own micro VC fund. Quest Ventures is industry agnostic and looks for opportunities in early stage startup companies. With some big hits, some big misses, the firm is actually founder friendly and has a great partner team of genuinely good guys.
    Listen and Learn:

    * The evolution of Silicon Valley
    * How Google and Sun Micro Systems stagnated
    * The challenges of corporate creativity
    * Missing out on Uber’s 15,000x return
    * How to build a nimble venture fund
    * The gut instinct that all angel investors need
    * How syndicates are changing investing


    Maarten’s Projects:
    Maarten’s AngelList profile
    Quest Venture Partners
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
    33 min
  • The Pitch
    Sheel Mohnot of 500 Startups is ACTUALLY a jack of all trades. He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology, as a creator or an investor/partner. He focuses specifically on what he calls “financial services for the rest of us” and helping financial institutions operate more efficiently.
    Sheel has had 2 successful fintech exits, invested in and advised some big names like Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, runs the 500 FinTech accelerator and FinTech fund and also host a bi-weekly podcast called “the pitch,” where he interview founders with a panel of other investors.
    Listen and Learn:

    * How founders feel about early exits
    * Why fund size isn’t about bigger is better
    * What to look for in Fintech traction
    * Which accelerator should entrepreneurs attend
    * How to handle fintech specific regulations and hurdles
    * Why YCs brand is best but overpriced
    * What is the future of blockchain
    * How to avoid being “dumb money capital”


    Sheel’s Projects:
    Sheel’s AngelList profile
    Sheel’s personal syndicate
    500 Startups
    500 Fintech Syndicate
    The Pitch
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Sheel Mohnot of 500 Startups is ACTUALLY a jack of all trades. He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology, as a creator or an investor/partner. He focuses specifically on what he calls “financial services for the rest of us” and helping financial institutions operate more efficiently.
    Sheel has had 2 successful fintech exits, invested in and advised some big names like Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, runs the 500 FinTech accelerator and FinTech fund and also host a bi-weekly podcast called “the pitch,” where he interview founders with a panel of other investors.
    Listen and Learn:

    * How founders feel about early exits
    * Why fund size isn’t about bigger is better
    * What to look for in Fintech traction
    * Which accelerator should entrepreneurs attend
    * How to handle fintech specific regulations and hurdles
    * Why YCs brand is best but overpriced
    * What is the future of blockchain
    * How to avoid being “dumb money capital”


    Sheel’s Projects:
    Sheel’s AngelList profile
    Sheel’s personal syndicate
    500 Startups
    500 Fintech Syndicate
    The Pitch
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
    44 min
  • VC
    Phil Nadel is a managing partner and syndicate lead at Forefront Venture Partners/Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners where he leads one of the largest and most active angel syndicates on AngelList. In addition to being an accomplished investor and being a featured investor on the Shark Tank style Pitch podcast, Phil is also a published author, frequent conference speaker and all around thought leader in the world of early stage startup investing.
    Listen and Learn:

    * Why Forefront Ventures is industry agnostic
    * The reason YC companies and SF in general are overhyped and overpriced
    * How to prevent conflict of interest in syndicate venture
    * How to vet startup founders for funding
    * The way to get great deals on early stage deals
    * When to be valuation sensitive
    * What to do when deals go south
    * How to build a top angel list syndicate


    Phil’s Projects:
    Forefront Venture’s AngelList Syndicate
    Forefront Venture Partners – A diversified early stage VC firm
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Phil Nadel is a managing partner and syndicate lead at Forefront Venture Partners/Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners where he leads one of the largest and most active angel syndicates on AngelList. In addition to being an accomplished investor and being a featured investor on the Shark Tank style Pitch podcast, Phil is also a published author, frequent conference speaker and all around thought leader in the world of early stage startup investing.
    Listen and Learn:

    * Why Forefront Ventures is industry agnostic
    * The reason YC companies and SF in general are overhyped and overpriced
    * How to prevent conflict of interest in syndicate venture
    * How to vet startup founders for funding
    * The way to get great deals on early stage deals
    * When to be valuation sensitive
    * What to do when deals go south
    * How to build a top angel list syndicate


    Phil’s Projects:
    Forefront Venture’s AngelList Syndicate
    Forefront Venture Partners – A diversified early stage VC firm
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
    29 min
  • Cryptocurrencies, ICOs and the Future of Public Markets with Joey Krug of Panterra Capital
    Joey got involved in Bitcoin mining in 2011 before building Bitcoin point of sale system in 2013. In 2014, he dropped out of Pomona College to cofound one of the first projects on Ethereum called Augur, and in 2015 they did the first crowdsale on Ethereum. Then this year he joined Pantera Capital as Co-Chief Investment Officer managing their digital asset funds… oh, and he also run one of the top 100 (by backing) AngelList syndicates.
    Listen and Learn:

    * Why Ethereum is the cryptocurrency of the future
    * What ICOs mean for investors and startups going forward
    * Why first is the worst for startup companies
    * How angel investors should think about Blockchain
    * The big shift happening now in the derivatives market


    Joey’s Projects:
    Joey’s AngelList Syndicate
    Augur – Joey’s startup decentralizing prediction markets
    Panterra Capital – a blockchain investment firm specialized in ICOs
    Mentioned in the Episode:
    Numer.ai – a hedge fund built by a network of data scientists
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Joey got involved in Bitcoin mining in 2011 before building Bitcoin point of sale system in 2013. In 2014, he dropped out of Pomona College to cofound one of the first projects on Ethereum called Augur, and in 2015 they did the first crowdsale on Ethereum. Then this year he joined Pantera Capital as Co-Chief Investment Officer managing their digital asset funds… oh, and he also run one of the top 100 (by backing) AngelList syndicates.
    Listen and Learn:

    * Why Ethereum is the cryptocurrency of the future
    * What ICOs mean for investors and startups going forward
    * Why first is the worst for startup companies
    * How angel investors should think about Blockchain
    * The big shift happening now in the derivatives market


    Joey’s Projects:
    Joey’s AngelList Syndicate
    Augur – Joey’s startup decentralizing prediction markets
    Panterra Capital – a blockchain investment firm specialized in ICOs
    Mentioned in the Episode:
    Numer.ai – a hedge fund built by a network of data scientists
    Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
    29 min

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