Edu: Picking the Right Business Model - Don't Prop up the Industry you Should be Disrupting
Have you followed your heart when choosing the business model for your startup? Or are you making the choice out of fear? Yaniv and Chris examine when to go B2B and when to go B2C, and how too many st...
28 Apr 202233min
Edu: Investing & Fundraising - The Truth About VC w/ Nick Crocker from Blackbird Ventures
Chris and Yaniv have a discussion with Nick Crocker, General partner at Blackbird Ventures. Together they discuss The truth about "VC Value add" and how the wrong investor can be value destructive...
21 Apr 202256min
Edu: Fundraising Basics Part 3 - Crafting your pitch
Building compelling and clear fundraising narratives and pitch decks can be life and death for your startup. In this episode, Yaniv and Chris discuss what a standard pitch deck narrative looks like a...
14 Apr 202253min
Edu: Fundraising Basics Part 2 - Avoid Selling Yourself Short
Knowing how to run a good fundraising process (and what to ask for) can make the difference between a glorious partnership that takes you to your next big milestone and serious resource constraint and...
6 Apr 202252min
Edu: Fundraising Basics Part 1 - How to Find the Smart Money
The symbiosis between founders and venture capitalists is at the core of what makes the startup business model possible. When it works well it can work very well indeed, but when it goes badly the res...
31 Mar 202231min
Edu: Scale-up Execution Overview - Avoiding Founder Sabotage
Is your startup about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? When you've built a product that customers love, scaling up to take that product to more customers might seem simple. In fact, the sca...
24 Mar 202251min
Edu: Early Execution Overview - Your MVP Sucks
Ideas are cheap, but execution is where the magic happens. Listen as Chris and Yaniv talk about what it means to execute successfully as an early-stage startup. We finally disagree about something to...
17 Mar 202245min
Edu: Early ideation - Your Idea Is Worthless
Got an idea for a startup? Congratulations, so does everybody else. In this episode, Chris and Yaniv dive deep on the idea of ideas, their role, and their limitations in the context of building a star...
11 Mar 202234min
