It all started when Elizabeth Yin left Google during the VC drought of 2008 to launch her entrepreneurial career by first bootstrapping a series of consumer web products and then creating the ad network for newsletters, LaunchBit, which was acquired by BuySellAds in 2014. Elizabeth then began angel investing and co-founded Hustle Con, an annual conference and media company which has since scaled to over 1M readers. In 2014 she joined 500 Startups as a Partner and ran their accelerator program, investing in hundreds of startups. Today, Elizabeth is a General Partner and Founder of Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm in San Francisco. In this episode we discuss her first $1M in startup investments and what she has learned along the way. Follow Elizabeth on twitter @dunkhippo33 and her blog with tactical advice for founders https://elizabethyin.com

After founding and scaling the “Sweet Greens” of London to 5 locations and over £2m in revenue, Greg shifted focus and pursued his passion for technology, joining a gaming startup called Scaleform to lead marketing efforts. After that company was acquired he made his first angel investment into VR startup Oculus, which went on to be acquired by Facebook for over $2BN. That was the start of his investing journey and led him to found Anorak Ventures, a frontier tech focused VC firm based in the Bay Area. In this episode we discuss his first $1M in startup investments and what he has learned along the way. Find Greg on Twitter @gpcastle12.

In 2006 Martin Siniawski started online radio company Streema and went on to scale the company to millions of users and millions in revenue over 10 years. In 2016 he decided to move across the world from Buenos Aires, Argentina to San Francisco, CA and start a new company from scratch - The Podcast App -  scaling again from Zero to 1M. This episode is about his journey from Zero to the first 1M in revenue with his two companies.