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Aug 7, 2019 • 39min

Andre Gharakhanian of Silicon Legal Strategy, talks about growing a leading law firm

Andre Gharakhanian of Silicon Legal Strategy (http://www.siliconlegal.com/), the first outside lawyer for Uber, Pinterest, and Instagram, talks startup legal strategy and about growing a law firm totally focused on serving fast-growth startups.
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Jul 10, 2019 • 31min

Robbie Mitchell of Frame.ai on building a business intelligence stack for customer communications

Robbie Mitchell, CEO and founder of Frame.ai (https://frame.ai/), discusses his founder journey - and explains how companies are integrating their customer conversations and using machine learning to create a business intelligence stack for important customer communications.
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Jun 27, 2019 • 32min

Stephanie Mann and Anne Foreman of At Your Core, a leading startup values and culture consultancy

Stephanie Mann and Anne Foreman of At Your Core (http://www.atyourcore.org/) discuss how to set the foundation for a strong culture in a startup, and how to build and maintain a startup’s team value system.
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May 22, 2019 • 38min

Andrew Miller of the Toronto Blue Jays talks about operating a professional sports franchise

Andrew Miller, Executive Vice President of Business Operations of the Toronto Blue Jays (https://www.mlb.com/bluejays) discusses aligning an organization to focus on a single goal, winning.
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May 15, 2019 • 53min

Lars Kamps, Intermix founder, diagrams how to raise a startup seed round

Lars Kamps, Intermix founder (https://www.intermix.io/), talks about how to raise a seed round for your startup. Hear about how Lars decided how much to raise, mapped out possible investors, and figured out how to structure his seed round.
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May 8, 2019 • 52min

Mark MacLeod of SurePath Capital Partners breaks down the SMB SaaS M&A market.

Mark MacLeod, an investment banker to fast-growing SMB software startups, dives into how SaaS companies prepare for an exit. Learn what a SaaS startup has to do to be acquired, what the M&A process is like, and how to maximize the probability of an exit.
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Apr 24, 2019 • 45min

Evan Meagher of Logikcull discusses the intersection of finance & sales in fast growth SaaS startups

Evan Meagher of Logikcull (https://www.logikcull.com/) discusses how to scale finance and sales scale together in fast growth SaaS startups. Evan dives into how finance and accounting can support the growth of a sales team, and when SaaS companies should make infrastructure investments.
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Apr 17, 2019 • 14min

What is Venture Debt? Scott Orn breaks down how startups use debt financing

Venture debt expert Scott Orn, of Kruze Consulting, explains what venture debt is and how startups use debt to boost growth while optimizing their cap table.
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Mar 27, 2019 • 29min

Parker Conrad explains how to bring Payroll, Benefits, HR & IT together with Rippling

Parker Conrad founded Rippling (https://www.rippling.com/) to simplify a startup's entire back-office by uniting Payroll, Benefits, HR & IT.
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Mar 13, 2019 • 35min

Charles Hudson explains the ins and outs of launching and managing a seed fund

Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures (https://precursorvc.com) goes over the challenges of raising a seed fund in today's environment, then discusses how Precursor Ventures takes bets on up and coming founders in exciting industries.

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