S5:E265 David and Paul discuss a significant milestone notched by VentureSouth, an Angel Group focused on the Southeastern Startup Ecosystem. They reached the $100M threshold of deployed capital, joining just 10 other North American Angel Groups that have reached that milestone. In the VC world, only 10% of VC funds are in this club. We’ll be discussing what this means, how VS achieved that goal and review the other 10 Angel Groups that have reached the $100M threshold. (recorded 8.14.26)

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S5:E264 David reviews the past week in venture and tees up Wednesday's E265 when Paul joins in a discussion of a significant milestone notched by VentureSouth, an Angel Group focused on the Southeastern Startup Ecosystem. They reached the $100M threshold of deployed capital, joining just 10 other North American Angel Groups that have reached that metric. And in the VC world, only 10% of VC funds are in this club. We’ll be discussing what this means, how VS achieved that goal and review the other 10 Angel Groups that have reached the $100M threshold. (recorded 8.16.26)

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S5:E263 David and Paul discuss how economic downturns can affect founders and startup investors, what they can do to plan for them, how to deal with them and what can be learned from them. (recorded 8.6.26)

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S5:E262 David reviews the past week in Venture and previews E263 on Wednesday 8.12.26 with Paul when we'll be offering up a timely episode on ‘Financial Downturns’ and how investors can plan around them while the champagne is still flowing. (recorded 8.9.26)

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S5:E261 David interviews Emily Morris, CEO of Emergy, a startup focused on harnessing water infrastructure into distributed renewable energy microgrids, an elegant solution to growing power demand. (recorded 7.31.26)

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S5:E260 David reviews the past Week In Venture and setups his interview with Emily Morris, CEO of Emrgy, a startup I first invested into in 2016. Emrgy is focused on harnessing water infrastructure into distributed renewable energy microgrids, an elegant solution to growing power demand. (recorded on 7.31.26)

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S5:E259 David interviews Christopher Mirabile, a leading Angel Investor with Launchpad Ventures, a co-founder of the venture portfolio tracking tool Seraf, and an author of two novels (links below) with Bublish, one of David's portfolio companies. 

The pair discuss Christopher's authorship experience with Bublish, his angel investing experience, and the founding of Seraf. (recorded 7.26.26)

Check out Chris's first two novels: The Washashore & The Holdfast.

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S5:E258 David reviews The Week In Venture, and, once again, AI dominated. Then on Wednesday July 29th I'll be interviewing Christopher Mirabile, a leading angel investor with Launchpad Ventures, a co-founder of Seraf, a venture portfolio tracking tool, and an author of two novels with Bublish, one of my portfolio companies. (recorded 7.26.26)

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S5:E257 David & Paul Paul kick off part two of our double-header on Ten Myths of Angel Investing -- covering material for founders, new angel investors, and the "tech curious." We’ll be taking on myths 6-10 in startup investing: is everything you thought you know about startup investing wrong? (recorded 7.9.26)

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S5:E256 David covers the past week in Venture with a special focus on the AI Bubble. Then on Wednesday July 22nd, David and Paul kick off part 2 of our series on the top 10 myths in Startup Investing for Founders, Rookie Angel Investors and the Tech Curious. We’ll be taking on myths 6-10 in Startup Investing noting that everything you thought you knew about Startup Investing is wrong. (recorded 7.19.26)

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