Venture Studio

This week’s guest is Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart Ventures, an enterprise seed fund which focuses on infrastructure and SaaS startups.

All of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/edsim

Blog: Beyondvc.com

Newsletter: digest.beyondvc.com

Episode 24 with Eliot Durbin:

https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-24-eliot-durbin-boldstart-ventures

Jessica Lawrence Quinn is the CEO of NY Tech Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting New York’s growing technology community, and the organizer of NY Tech Meetup, the world’s largest Meetup group. Prior to her work with NY Tech Alliance, Jessica was the CEO of Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Southern California, where she supported a community of 75 staff, 5,000 volunteers, and 15,000 girls. Jessica was one of only 15 women selected to participate in Seth Godin’s Female Entrepreneur MBA (FeMBA) in 2010. Jessica’s writing has been featured on the Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes.com, The Next Web, The Huffington Post and in a weekly column in The Press-Enterprise. She also speaks frequently on the tech sector, the future of work, and organizational development and culture at events such as PopTech, SXSW, and TEDx.

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Jessica’s Blog

https://jessicalawrencequinn.com/

NY Tech Alliance

https://nytech.org/

NY Tech Meetup + Bloomberg Women's Demo Night 2017:

https://nytech.org/monthly-meetup/ny-tech-meetup-bloomberg-women-s-demo-night-2017

April 2017 NY Tech Meetup and Afterparty:

https://nytech.org/monthly-meetup/april-2017-ny-tech-meetup-and-afterparty

Human Tech Meetup

https://www.meetup.com/Human-Tech-Meetup/

Part 2 with Brad Harrison of Scout Ventures

Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies. Scout focuses on core business fundamentals and help with key areas of growth.

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www.scoutventures.com

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This week’s guest is the incomparable Brad Harrison, founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies.

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During this experience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.

While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications and retired as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

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Scout Ventures:

http://www.scoutventures.com/

This episode's guest is Spencer Ante, founder of WhoWeUse and author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital.

This is part 2 of our interview with Spencer. When we left off, Spencer had just told the story of Digital Equipment’s IPO, and its 70,000% ROI for ARD and its founder George Doriot.

This week, Dave and Spencer get into the drivers of economic progress, the roots of the difference between east and west coast founders and more detail about Spencer’s company, WhoWeUse.

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Download WhoWeUse:

http://whoweuse.net/

This episode's guest is Spencer Ante, author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital.

Spencer is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated and award-winning author, writer, editor, and journalist formerly with The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Wired. He is also a seasoned product developer and manager with extensive experience across digital media, social media, broadcast, and print media. He is also President and cofounder of WhoWeUse, a mobile app and Web directory that connects people with the most popular local services used by their friends and neighbors.

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Buy Creative Capital on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Capital-Georges-Doriot-Venture/dp/1422101223

This week’s guest is Shan-Lyn Ma, Co-Founder and CEO of Zola and angel investor in New York City. Zola is re-inventing the Wedding Registry for the modern couple.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Zola Wedding Registry

Zola.com

This week's guest is Jerry Colonna of Reboot. Jerry is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction. Previously he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private­ equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. He joined JPMP from Flatiron Partners, which he launched 1996 with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early­stage investment programs in the New York City area. At Flatiron, Jerry was responsible for a wide range of the firm’s investments including Geocities Inc., Gamesville Inc., Vertical One Inc., and The New York Times Digital.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Reboot

reboot.io

Reboot Podcast #45 – What’s Love Got to Do with It?- with Fred Wilson and Brad Feld

https://www.reboot.io/episode/45-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-fred-wilson-brad-feld/

Reboot Podcast # 49 - The Tragic Gap – with Tarikh Korula

https://www.reboot.io/episode/49-the-tragic-gap/

This week is part 2 with Jerry Neumann, early stage angel investor at Neu Venture Capital and longtime New York VC. Neu invests in seed-stage companies developing cutting-edge technologies for use in large markets. Neu makes five or six new investments a year and only invest in companies where they can make a difference.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Reaction Wheel

Jerry Neumann's Blog

reactionwheel.net/

Power Laws:

reactionwheel.net/2015/06/power-laws-in-venture.html

Neu Venture Capital

neuvc.com/

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This week’s guest is Jerry Neumann, early stage angel investor at Neu Venture Capital and longtime New York VC. Neu invests in seed-stage companies developing cutting-edge technologies for use in large markets. Neu makes five or six new investments a year and only invest in companies where they can make a difference.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

“The hard part’s not writing the check. The hard part is getting a bigger check back at the end.”

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Reaction Wheel

Jerry Neumann's Blog

http://reactionwheel.net/

Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing

http://reactionwheel.net/2014/07/betting-ponies.html

Neu Venture Capital

http://neuvc.com/