Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

144 Episodes

1. The blueprint for starting a new firm with Chemistry Ventures, including the work needed before choosing your partners and non-consensus decision making.

   Published: 10/30/2024
2. Meet the Expert: Venture Fund Banking with Sam Heshmati and Vincent Timoney of Citizens Private Bank

   Published: 10/16/2024
3. Saga Ventures on key lessons on raising a Fund I, building healthy partnerships, and winning in a competitive seed market

   Published: 9/26/2024
4. Building a firm to last, lessons from nearly three decades of investing, and the path to hiring great venture teams with Glenn Solomon of Notable Capital (FKA GGV Capital)

   Published: 8/28/2024
5. Doing a successful GP led secondary in Venture Capital, Why seed funds can scale, and what a good VC platform team looks like

   Published: 8/8/2024
6. Investing in USV Fund I, lessons learned as a LP, and why Emerging Managers are so important

   Published: 8/1/2024
7. The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now start going back on offense featuring Tom Loverro of IVP

   Published: 7/17/2024
8. Finding greatness in non-consensus startups, the story of Twitch from Justin.TV, and why great companies need insights and inflection points with Mike Maples

   Published: 7/10/2024
9. TX Zhuo’s of Fika Ventures on raising a Fund I, evolving decision making frameworks, and what founder first means to them

   Published: 6/27/2024
10. Limited Partner Unlocked: Michael Kim Cendana Capital on the Emerging Manager landscape, fundraising, and the need for liquidity

    Published: 6/5/2024
11. Amy Saper of Uncork Capital on how startups should embrace constraints to foster creativity, and her learnings from being at Accel, X, Uber, and Stripe

    Published: 5/15/2024
12. LP Unlocked shorts: What We're Hearing about Venture Liquidity with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

    Published: 4/19/2024
13. What's happening at the seed stage? Featuring Jenny Fielding, Kirby Winfield, and Nate Williams

    Published: 4/10/2024
14. The Craft of Venture Capital with David Sacks

    Published: 3/27/2024
15. Adam Bain of 01 Advisors on scaling Twitter from 0 to $1B+, being coached by Bill Campbell, and why they don't take board seats

    Published: 3/13/2024
16. Mitchell Green of Lead Edge Capital on the Moneyball approach to investing, the art of effective cold calling, and managing 700+ strategic LPs

    Published: 3/6/2024
17. Limited Partner Unlocked shorts: What we're Hearing from LPs with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

    Published: 2/23/2024
18. Khosla Venture's Samir Kaul on building an iconic, durable firm, and the role of non-consensus decision making

    Published: 2/16/2024
19. Venture Unlocked Shorts: Looking back the era of Unicorns and what's ahead?

    Published: 1/31/2024
20. Venture Unlocked Shorts: Why VC has gone mainstream and the parallels to private equity and hedge funds

    Published: 1/26/2024