VC10X - Venture Capital Podcast Prashant Choubey

Guillermo Flor is a Venture Capital Investor at Gohub Ventures, an early-stage SaaS B2B Venture capital fund investing in great companies all over Europe & USA.

Before joining Gohub Ventures, Guillermo built a SaaS startup, worked as a strategy consultant at Accenture Strategy, and graduated with an MBA from IE Business School.

In this episode, we talk about:

- Guillermo's story and how he started investing
- Investing in startups with "yellow flags"
- How should early-stage founders think about going after product market fit?
- How and when should founders consider a pivot?
- Common mistakes that founders make while fundraising
- How can founders create a sense of urgency, and close out the fundraising round?

& lots more

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Chris Cheung is a Partner at TenSquared Capital LLC (10SQ) with eight years of experience in venture capital and investment banking. Prior to joining 10SQ, he was an associate at 10T Holdings, LLC, a $1.2Bn AUM growth equity firm focused on investing in mid-to-late-stage companies in blockchain and Web3.

In this episode, we talk about -

- How Chris started investing into blockchain startups?
- Why hasn't blockchain gone mainstream yet?
- Investment thesis at 10 Squared
- Key sub-sectors within blockchain
- Their investment into Superlogic
- How is the Digital Asset Ecosystem (DAE) taking shape?
- How 10 Squared supports it's portfolio companies?

& lots more

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Ben Kohlmann is a Partner at Cubit Capital where he looks into Frontier Tech Investments. Ben is a former F18 pilot in the US Navy. Ben led the Chief of Naval Operations Rapid Innovation Cell and is also the co-founder of the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum.

In this episode, we talk about -

- How's the experience of flying an F18 fighter jet?

- How Ben built a culture of non-conformity within the US Navy?

- How is the speed of innovation in Defence forces?

- What's the Product-Market Fit equivalent for DefenceTech startups?

- Product validation in the battlefield

- What do DefenceTech startups learn from the ongoing wars?

- How are DefenceTech startups different from software startups in terms of revenue & sales cycles?

& lots more

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Jeroen van Doornik is the Founder & Managing Partner at Pacenotes where they are backing top-tier funds and doubling down on breakout companies

In this episode, we talk about:

- How to build a VC firm that stands the test of time?
- What separates "Emerging Firms" from "Brand Name Firms"?
- The challenges faced by Limited Partners
- Most crucial metrics for VC firms to track
- Leading deals Vs co-investing alongside other leads, what's a better strategy for VCs?
- Reserve Vs No Reserve: what's a better approach?
- Solo GPs Vs Multiple GPs: what do LPs prefer?

& lots more

Links:

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Guy Cherni is a deep-tech founder and investor. Guy is the Co-Founder and the managing partner of Climate First, which supports deep-tech and Climatech startups. He invested in more than 30 companies disrupting the fields of Energy, Materials, Food, Mobility, and more.

Prior to Climate First, Guy Co-founded Atlas Dynamics, the leading European unmanned aerial systems (UAS) company that redefines the drone industry using autonomous swarms.

In this episode, we talk about -

- How Climate is the greatest opportunity of this generation?

- What's the mission at ClimateFirst?

- The ClimateFirst London roadshow

- How is investing in deeptech startups different from investing in software startups?

- Lifecycle of a Deeptech startup

& lots more

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Nick McLean is one of the founders of Four Pillars Investors. Four Pillars Investors is a private equity firm that purchases and operates businesses in the lower middle-market ($20M in sales to $250M in sales). Their ideal acquisition candidates are companies with untapped potential for growth.

In this episode, we talk about:

- What is Private Equity?
- How is Private Equity investing different from Venture Capital?
- Investment thesis at Four Pillars Investors
- How do Private Equity firms determine the valuation of a business?
- Why is it important for founders to understand the world of Private Equity to have it as an exit option?
- What type of businesses do Private Equity firms back?
- How have rising interest rates impacted activity in Private Equity?

& lots more

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