Venture Voice
What does it take to start a successful business? Were working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and their friends and foes. This podcast features our conversations.
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VV Show #51 - Jeff Stewart of Mimeo, Monitor110 and Urgent Career
Download the MP3. Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995. Only three years later he became a serial entrepreneur by starting Mimeo, a service that lets you send a file directly from your computer to be prin ...
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VV Show #50 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork
Download the MP3. Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to "whack 'em [investors] off with a stick". Now we know why. Derek announces on our show for the first time the amount he sold his company for this past summer: $22 million. Derek owned 100% of th ...
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Angel Financing Without Hellish Legal Fees
It's great to hear stories like the one where Andy Bechtolsheim handed the Google founders a $100,000 check before they even set up their bank account. Convince an angel to invest and you're off to the races! However, what many aspiring entrepreneurs don't know is that after the one or two page term ...
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VV Show #49 - Rafat Ali of paidContent and contentNext
Download the MP3. Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter, Rafat Ali ended up broke in a market with a dearth of employment opportunities. To try to find a new jo ...
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Uncensored Interview
The folks at Uncensored Interview were nice enough to turn the tables on my by interviewing me on their show. You can watch all the clips here. Here's me talking about what makes a good interview: Please join our new Venture Voice Facebook Page.
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New York Venture Summit
When: June 24-25, 2008 Where: The New Yorker in New York City What: Venture Voice is a media sponsor of the 8th Annual New York Venture Summit that will feature over 25 Venture Capital Speakers, 3 Venture Capital Panels with open discussions and 40 of the most promising Emerging Companies seeking ...
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Next Question?
In our last round of questions on this blog, we asked each former guest about his or her first time (raising money). What should our next question be? Give us your ideas in the comments or via our contact page. We've got a number of new audio interviews scheduled. To support the show, please c ...
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VV Show #33 Announcing the Venture Voice Startup Workshop
Download the MP3. Venture Voice has been illuminating entrepreneurship through the podcast for just short of a year. Now, at the Venture Voice Startup Workshop on June 26 in New York, you can interact with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to find out how to start and grow innovative busi ...
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David Sacks' First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? David Sacks: I asked Peter, Max and Elon to finance "Thank You For Smoking" with me. I didn't have to do too much se ...
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Kelly Perdew's First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? Kelly Perdew: I raised my first round of financing ($500K in equity) from friends and family while I was still in bu ...
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Evan Williams's First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? Ev Williams: I asked my mom for $10,000. She gave it to me.
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Jay Adelson's First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? Jay Adelson: The first round of financing I ever raised was from angels. I was working with Al Avery, who co-fo ...
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Joel Spolsky's First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? Joel Spolsky: I put in a very small amount of money (I think it was about $50,000) from my own savings. That car ...
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Fabrice Grinda's First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing Grinda: The first time I had to raise money was for Aucland, a copy of eBay for Southern Europe which was my first I ...
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Scott Rafer's First Time (Raising Money)
This is the first of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple question and post their answers. How'd you raise your very first round of financing? Scott Rafer: The first money I raised was for Fotonation in 1996. We just had a cashflow issue, so borrowed ...
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The Other Side of the Mic
One of the most frequent compliments we get about Venture Voice is that we let the guests speak for most of the time by asking concise and focused questions. So in essence I???m being patted on the back for shutting up. Some would take that as a blessing, but because I do enjoy talking it???s nice t ...
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Startup Sold on eBay for $258,100 (or: eBay turns iBanker)
A web-based calendar startup called Kiko put all of its assets up on eBay a little over a week ago as its founder explained on his blog. As far as I know, this is the first time a technology company has essentially sold itself on eBay for a six-figure amount. Seems like a fitting way to exit for a t ...
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VV Show #38 - Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., Netscape and AOL
Download the MP3. There are not many entrepreneurs who have spent their entire 10-year careers starting new ventures in online media, but Jason Calacanis just can???t help himself. Jason rode the dot com wave in New York by starting Silicon Alley Reporter. His publishing company Rising Tide M ...
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After Labor Day
If there are three words an entrepreneur dreads hearing in the summer, perhaps it's "after Labor Day". People such as venture capitalists and customers who take things called vacations (what's that?) often say this to entrepreneurs trying to schedule meetings. In the startup world, a few weeks is a ...
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Lemonade Stand: School of Hard Knocks For Young Entrepreneurs
While there's no standard education to become an entrepreneur, almost every entrepreneur gets an early education in the lemonade business. The kids may be cute, but that doesn't mean they're not cut throat. In fact, Inc. Magazine just announced the Best Lemonade Stand in America Contest Winner.
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