The Silicon Valley Podcast

Ep 149 How to Pitch your Startup with George Parrish

Show Notes George Parrish
George Parrish who is the Head of the Deal Screening Committee at the Angel Group Bay Angels. He is also the Executive Director of Entrepreneur Lab LLC, Headquartered 90 minutes East of SF/Silicon Valley in the Central San Joaquin Valley with a branch launched in Tracy California. Entrepreneur Lab is located and supported by the City of Stockton, the City of Tracy, WorkVine209, the San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Central Valley Asian Chamber of Commerce.
 
 
We talk about
How have companies’ pitches changed over time?
What is the most common mistake startups miss with their pitch?
What surprises international delegations the most when they come to Silicon Valley?
How does a background in sales, help when analyzing a company?
 
And much more
 
Connect with
george.parrish.sales@gmail.com
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeparrishconsultantsgp/overlay/contact-info/
 

Ep 148 Building Communities with Nicholas Adams

Ep 148 Building Communities with Nicholas Adams
 
Nicholas E. Adams is a national award-winning publicist, strategist, and advisor. He has served as president and ceo of NINICO Communications® since 2011 and champions the motto Power of Partnership®. For more than a decade, the firm has created campaigns, developed messaging, and served as publicist to some of California’s most storied brands and business leaders.Mr. Adams is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and board member of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce and Symphony San Jose. He is an active member of the Silicon Valley Capital Club, Sovereign Order of the Knights of St. John, and Rotary Club of San Jose – the region’s oldest service organization. In 2009, he took the oath of office and was appointed to the San Jose Arts Commission, where he served as cultural ambassador on behalf of Northern California’s largest city for eight years. In 2019, the Silicon Valley Business Journal named Mr. Adams among the 40 most influential people in the region under the age of 40. Mr. Adams has been featured as an industry thought leader in stories by NBC, ABC, The Mercury News, Crunchbase News, VentureBeat, PR Week and the US Chamber of Commerce. Under Mr. Adams’ leadership, both the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles Business Journals have named NINICO Communications® among the top public relations agencies throughout the regions. Hailed a Power Player by Silicon Valley Magazine in 2021, Mr. Adams has been recognized for his professional accomplishments and stewardship of the PR and Ad industry and wider community by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, Association of Marketing Communication Professionals and Public Relations Society of America. In 2022, Mr. Adams cofounded Voyage Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm which invests in diverse entrepreneurs and technical innovators in the FinTech and GreenTech spaces.
 
 
We talk about
what are the rules of doing business?
What is really a company’s brand, is it a logo or name or more?
To start a business, a team is so important. How do you know you have the right people on board?
What is the red-carpet treatment for PR
And much more
 
 
Connect with Nicholas Adams
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaseadams/
 NINICO Communications
na@ninico.com

Ep 147 Music and the Metaverse with Ivan Linn

 
Ivan Linn is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and pianist. He is known for his work in the music production of video games in the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series. He is also the music director and chief conductor of the Assassin's Creed Symphony World Tour. Linn is a production executive of Goldstones Studios and the CEO and founder of web3 music platform Wavv. Linn is a member of the National Arts and Sciences Recording Academy and ASCAP.
 
We talk about
How is pitching a startup different or the same as pitching an idea in Hollywood?
Does being a childhood star prepare you for a life as an entrepreneur?
How do you calculate risk and reward?
How has NFTs changed the artist community?
And much more
 
 
Connect with Ivan Linn
 (6) Ivan Linn | LinkedIn
Wavv - web3 Music Platform & Services
 

146 How to Move Up the Corporate Ladder with Dr. Elizabeth Xu

Show Notes Elizabeth Xu
 
Dr. Elizabeth Xu is a passionate global transformative leader and public company board member. She is a C-level executive with 20+ years of experience & a track record of technology, product and business strategy/execution & customer satisfaction success.She is the CEO and co-founder of A2C Leadership Group, an interactive online education and coaching platform. A2C helps companies to develop their top talent, elevates their thinking into a creative win-win mindset, and instills best practices for their daily execution. A2C helps employees build 4-level of innovative win-win solutions for the customers, companies, teams, and shareholders.Her expertise includes formulating global digital transformation strategies in Retail, Food, Education, Finacial Service, and IT Industries, and accelerating innovation through the applications of Cloud, AI, IoT & cybersecurity, and creating new digital business models.She has in-depth software development experience in creating large-scale, mission-critical mobile, SaaS, multi/hybrid clouds, billion-dollar revenue software products. She drove Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Training, Customer Support, Professional Services, and IT organizations in public companies, she also built deep partnerships with customers, successfully met revenue/profit targets She served as the Group CTO at CP Group, a $65 Billion Revenue International Conglamorate, CTO at BMC Software, Head of global Engineering, Product Management, Professional Services, IT and Customer Engagement a few public companies. A Stanford University lecturer, she taught big data, global operation, and leadership classes, authored a textbook and developed course material. She frequently speaks at industry conferences/events. Dr. Xu was the Top 50 US Diversity Leader in 2020, 2017 WITI Hall of Fame winner, 2013 Women of Influence of Silicon Valley, and received 10+ other awards such as Female Technologist of the year, Female Executive of the Year, Coach of the Year. Dr. Xu is an investor and advisor for companies in Enterprise Software, Retail, Telecom, Financial Service, Food, Toy, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Big Data, Analytics, ML, Online Education, Healthcare & Software-defined storage. She is an MIT Advisor for Innovation, Computer Science Advisory Board for the UNR College of Engineering.A passionate community leader, Dr. Xu is the Chairman of the WITI APAC Advisory Board and Be the Change Foundation. She is also a dedicated mentor for students at Peking University, MIT, Stanford & Berkeley Universities.
We talk about
How does one get promoted fast?
What would be examples of calculated risk at one's' job?
How does a CEO grow with their company, with the opportunity they come across?
What are the extraordinary benefits of the c-suite and boardrooms?
How does one go about planning and balancing all aspects of one’ life?
 
And much more
 
 
Connect with Dr. Elizabeth Xu
(6) Dr. Elizabeth Xu | LinkedIn
http://a2cacademy.org/
 

145 Secondaries, Selling your Pre-IPO Shares with Bryce Emo

145 Secondaries, Selling your Pre-IPO Shares with Bryce Emo
Bryce Emo is the Founder of Sidecar
Sidecar is an advisory service for shareholders in hyper-growth companies. They aid shareholders as they navigate the private liquidity markets to fund the exercise of options and/or gain liquidity. By helping shareholders understand the value of their equity, layout the various solutions (private sale, loan, structured finance, etc.) and introduce them to providers who can help them achieve their goals.Registered Representative of Emerson Equity LLC. Securities offered through Emerson Equity LLC, member FINRA and SIPC. All investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Speak to your tax and/or finance professional prior to investing. Emerson Equity LLC is not affiliated with any other entities identified herein.
 
We talk about
What should every founder or employee know about 409A valuations?
How does ROFR Right of First Refusal impact the sale of shares?
How could selling shares on the secondary market impact the cap table?
What is a personal liquidity model?
How long on average do these processes take?
And much more
 
 
Connect with Bryce Emo
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-emo-b7073a12/
Bryce@SidecarFinance.com
http://www.SidecarFinance.com
 
 
*Disclaimer
This podcast is not an offer to buy or a solicitation to sell a security. The podcast is a discussionpertaining to one or more investment strategies and/or asset class(es), and is not a discussion of anyspecific offering, past or present, of securities. As a reminder, there is no guarantee that any investmentor strategy will perform as targeted, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, and anyinvestment involves risk of the loss of some or all principal invested. The podcast contains statementsintended for educational and hypothetical purposes only, and is not to be construed as a promise ofperformance. Information presented herein reflects the opinions of the speakers and is from sourcesbelieved to be reliable, but all information is subject to change. You should always speak to your financeand/or tax professional prior to investing.Securities offered through Emerson Equity LLC Member: FINRA/SIPC. Only available in states whereEmerson Equity LLC is registered. Emerson Equity LLC is not affiliated with any other entities identified inthis communication

144 Disruptive Technology from The Business Capital & Exit Strategy Summit

Panel 4 Capital Summit and Exit Strategy
 
Panel 4
Tech and the Economy...What will disrupt your business? Is your company on the verge of being disrupted and you don't even know it? What keeps you up at night? Well... we are going to unlock some information on technology that if you are not tracking today your company might fall in, with names like Blockbuster and Kodak.
 
Moderator
Daran Herrman  CEO at Goboto | Host of Establishing your Empire with 10+ years of experience in managing online businesses, including managing strategy development, global eCommerce solutions, online marketing & multi-channel retail partnerships for business & consumer market sectors.  (2) Daran Herrman | LinkedIn
 
Dr Elizabeth Xu   Public Board Director; CEO; CTO; BMC; CPG; IBM; US Top 50 Diversity Leader; WIT, and the Hall of Fame. Dr. Xu is a passionate, global transformative leader, public company board member. She is a C-level executive with 20+ years of experience & a track record of technology, product and business strategy/execution & customer satisfaction success (5) Dr. Elizabeth Xu | LinkedIn
Guillaume jaulerry Founder & Chief Executive Officer at O Company Proven entrepreneur focused on wearable hardware, data security, cybersecurity. Global senior technology leadership experience. Solving security, privacy, and portability of all data for both consumer and enterprise markets (6) Guillaume Jaulerry | LinkedIn
Jeep Kline Venture Capital; Professional Faculty; Board of Directors. Jeep is a Founding Partner at Mr.Pink VC, a senior executive at Intel and pre-IPO tec hnology companies, and an Economist at The World Bank with 20 years expertise in driving the formation, growth, and market success of technology-based organizations in many countries. She thrives in entrepreneurial environments and is known for her strategic thinking, governance, and leadership skills (6) Jeep Kline | LinkedIn
 
 
 
 
We talk about
 
Where will the next big disruption happen?
What are the concerns moving forward with data privacy?
How is AI impacting the health care industry?
What is the future of the supply chain?
What are decisions companies making due to ESG concerns?

143 Selling Your Business from The Business Capital & Exit Strategy Summit

Selling Your Business from The Business Capital & Exit Strategy Summit 
 
This is the 3rd Panel from the Half Day Summit...Enjoy
 
Selling your business, the secrets of the complete process
What needs to be done, before, during, and after you decide to put your company up for sale? Where are the problems that could cause the deal to fail. In the event of failure, how do you walk away keeping the maximum amount from the transaction?Marcel Pfister Wealth Advisor for Startup Founders & Employees, ex-Goldman Sachs. His team advises founders and employees of high-growth startups on holistic wealth management solutions. Most of his clients have a big portion of their net worth in liquid stock options. He helps them mitigate that liquidity risk and create a plan to maximize after-tax proceeds of a potential sale or IPO.LinkedIn profile
Jerome Fogel Partner, Corporate Practice Group, Chair - Sports and Entertainment Group at Fogel & Potamianos LLP. Jerome is the co-founder of Fogel & Potamianos LLP. He is known as a dealmaker and innovator in the legal community. He represents successful entrepreneurs, small and lower middle market companies, and high-profile sports and entertainment leaders. He also serves as the go-to offsite general counsel for a number of organizations.  He has participated in over 100 corporate, non-profit, and entertainment transactions including company formations, mergers & acquisitions, equity financing, high-profile partnerships, talent agreements, digital music distribution, television distribution, publishing, licensing, and commercial transactions. LinkedIn profile
 
Shawn Flynn
Shawn Flynn started his career by founding, scaling and successfully exiting a company in Beijing China. He then returned to the US to work with companies ranging from fast growing Silicon Valley startups to established overseas public companies. He brings his international experience working with all stages and sectors of businesses to his role as Principal at Global Capital Markets, a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation and is the Host of The Silicon Valley Podcast. LinkedIn profile
Naveen Khugputh naveen@werqwise.com  Co-Founder and COO of Werqwise
Broad expertise in Private Equity, Debt and Venture Capital. Over a decade spent with Lloyds Capital Markets in London and New York and LDC in UK & Asia. Involved in over 30 completed private equity transactions with a value of over $3bn USD. Naveen Khugputh | LinkedIn

142 Tech and Government with Hongyi LI

Hongyi li 
 
Li Hong Yi, is the Director of Open Government Product for Singapore(the SWAT team version of government’s core engineering unit). Hong Yi having worked in Google before returning to Singapore to start and lead his own division from ground up. He is passionate about delivering modern digital solutions to Singapore citizens he has launched some amazing nationwide-adopted consumer services and made huge differences to Singapore national engineering culture through his platform. He’s also the current Prime Minister’s son
 
 
What are the differences between working at google vs working in the Singapore public sector?
How are efficiencies in the government measured?
Are inefficiencies linear or logarithmic?
How is Singapore positioning itself to be an entrepreneur hub?
What resources are there in Singapore that a foreign startup could access and utilize?
How does one go about in the thought process of social impact and implementation of Tech?

141 Post Pandemic Capital Structuring, where will the money come from? - The Business Capital & Exit Strategy Summit Panel 2

Panel 2
• Post Pandemic Capital Structuring, where will the money come from? During the Pandemic did one of these happen to you: 1) You borrowed money and now must recapitalize and are wondering what your options are?2) You struggled, barely survived, and now need capital to bring your company back to life? 3) Your company saw new highs and now you see unknown potential you want to raise capital to reach. These industry experts will share ideas and give you insights into potential solutions that can be implemented immediately to get you to where you want to be.
Moderator 
Shawn Flynn who is a Principal at Global Capital Markets, a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation and is the Host of The Silicon Valley Podcast.  LinkedIn
 
Panelist
Armello Rodriguez
Has spent 15 years in the financial services industry, with the past 10 years focused on commercial banking for small to medium sized firms in California. Prior to joining LafayetteSquare, Armello started his career at Wells Fargo and most recently worked at Bank of America as VP on the Global Commercial Banking. Armello's primary focus is to partner with firms by providing strategic capital to help them achieve their growth objectives. LinkedIn profile
Conor Riley  
As a Principal of Global Capital Markets is a full service investment bank focused on facilitating transactions within the Middle Market. Conor advises on a wide array of Mergers and Acquisitions across multiple industries. As well as, structuring growth capital, debt, and equity placements.LinkedIn profile
 
Mark DiTargiani
Senior VP, Technology Banking at Pacific Western Bank where Mark leads the Venture Banking Group that takes the approach of underwriting to the quality of a startup's technology, market opportunity, management team, and investor syndicate, PacWest can provide access to capital throughout a company’s lifecycle.  LinkedIn profile
 

140 Grit and your Startup with Luke Hohmann

140 Grit and your Startup with Luke Hohmann
Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, Inc. Our mission is to create the next generation of impact investors. Our unique go-to-market strategy supports all stakeholders as youth use participatory budgeting to invest real money in their schools. Youth learn the 5 C's of modern education: creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and civics as they experience true agency and stewardship over their futures, learning through their own experiences how money really works.We want to get $1K into 1M schools globally and watch what happens when youth control $1B in capital. Previously a SAFe® Framework Contributor and Principal Consultant, Luke was Founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. (acquired by Scaled Agile, Inc.) where he worked with an extraordinary dev team to create the Weave, Strategy Engine and Knowsy® decision agility platforms. The author of four books, numerous articles and cited as an inventor on more than a dozen patents, Luke is an internationally recognized expert in Agile Software Development. Luke co-organized the first Agile conference in 2003, has served on the Board of the Agile Alliance and in partnership with the Scrum Alliance produced the "Collaboration at Scale", the world's largest monthly webinar devoted to helping organizations with 10 or more Scrum teams in 2 or more locations scale agility.Luke is a highly sought after speaker has as keynoted such conferences as the Agile Alliance conference, Agile Australia, Lean-Agile Scotland, Agile New Zealand, the Austrian Innovation Forum, the CXPA and the SAFe Summit.Luke's is the co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and nonprofit organizations collaboratively solve problems that are unsolvable without civic engagement. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through Budget Games. In partnership with The Kettering Foundation (www.kettering.org), Conteneo created Common Ground for Action, the first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making.A former United States National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion, Luke likes playing with his four kids, his wife’s cooking and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains. Luke’s an old school Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Instead of building companies to flip, he builds companies that make the world better!
We talk about
For the different stages of a company’s growth, how can they collaborate using games to get results?
How can a company go about finding the right Investment Banker?
How important is teaching financial literacy?  
What is project based, learning-by-doing?
And much more
 
 
Connect with Luke Hohmann
(5) Luke Hohmann | LinkedIn
lukehohmann@yahoo.com
firstroot.co