The Silicon Valley Podcast

092 Venture Capital Opportunities in South East Asia and more with Jeep Kline

Jeep Kline who it the first Thailand Venture Capitalist, her experiences include creating a startup, taking a leadership role in technology companies, and managing Big Data at The World Bank (and teaching at Hass school of business at Berkeley.  She enjoys applying strategies and analytics to solve difficult problems and create meaningful impacts.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
If the US started to have inflation issues how would that impact VC funds? 
What is the due diligence process in Latin America like? 
How are Venture Capital opportunities in South East Asia countries?
 
Connect with Jeep
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeepkline/
Clubhouse @jeepkline 
Twitter @jeep_kline 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jeepkline

091 Silicon Valley, Tech, Africa and the Future with Almaz Negash

Show notes for Almaz
In 2010, Almaz founded the African Diaspora Network (ADN) to inform and engage Africans in the diaspora and facilitate direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders to invest and improve the lives of everyone on the continent. Under her leadership and vision, ADN is now the home of The African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS), the Builders of Africa's Future (BAF), and Impact & Innovation Speaker Series. Currently, she is pursuing the development of Africa Impact Investment Fund to provide capital to those working to better the lives of people in Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
What is the African Diaspora Network (ADN) mission?
What resources are African founded startups needing?
What are some of the positives and negatives of remittances?
How does one recruit an amazing board?
 
Connect with Almaz
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/almaznegash/
Website https://africandiasporanetwork.org/
 
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090 Money, Sports and Tech with Chis Kane

Chris is passionate about startups, sports, FinTech (specifically payments), and financial literacy. He believes that you can get anywhere you want in this world as long as you work your butt off and never stop learning."Everything around you, that you call life, was made up by people that are no smarter than you. You can influence it, you can change it." - Steve Jobshttps://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw?t=12
 
We talk about
What is Fintech and what role does Financial Literacy play in the sports world?
What is the Step-by-Step Payment process system?
How can startups collaborate with one another to succeed?
 
Connect with Chris
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-j-kane/
Website  https://chekspend.com
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089 Entrepreneurism to Infinity and Beyond with Captain Steve Hoffman

Steve Hoffman, or Captain Hoff as he’s called in Silicon Valley, is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators. He’s also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books. These include “Make Elephants Fly” (published by Hachette), “Surviving a Startup” (published by HarperCollins), and "The Five Forces" (published by BenBella).
 
 
On today Show we Talk about:
What are possible repercussions of taking friends and family money?
When do patents matter?
How do you know the commitment level of your co-founder, are they 100% in?
When is it time to quit your startup?
 
 
Connect with Steve
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/
Founder Space https://www.foundersspace.com/
Book  Surviving a Startup  Amazon.com: Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top (9781400223190): Hoffman, Steven S.: Books
 
 
 
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088 Breaking down Mergers, Aquisition's, raising Growth Capital and more with Mark Wilser

Mark Wilser
As Co-Founder of Global Capital Markets, Mark Wilser is a 25 year veteran investment banker with a proven track record of maximizing shareholder value through M&A and Corporate Finance transactions.Specialties: Sell-side M&A (involving both strategic buyers and private equity), growth capital (debt and equity), and management buyouts.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
 
What is the process for an M&A deal, what are all the steps that are involved?
What are some red flags in deals in a deal?
How do bankers get paid? What is a normal fee structure?
 
 
Connect with Mark
Website  https://www.globalcapitalmarkets.com/
Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwilser/
Email mw@globalcapitalmarkets.com
Phone (949) 252-4600 x 225
 
 
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087 The Dark side and Bright side of Tech with Vanessa Russell

Vanessa Russells Bio
Love Never Fails is committed to the restoration, education and protection of young people who are at risk of or currently being sexually exploited in California. Since inception they have educated thousands on this issue, trained over 100 Mentors for Positive Change”, launched an elementary, middle and high school abuse prevention program and located over 100 missing and exploited women and children and provided young people with sustainable jobs in IT, real estate, banking, health care etc They are a state certified CyberSecurity Pre-apprenticeship program, Cisco Networking academy, CalJOBs trainer and Department of Rehab vendor.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
What are the responsibilities of the app stores to sensor or block apps targeting children?
How is cryptocurrency playing a part in Human trafficking?
Can technology be used to help find missing children?
 
 
Connect with Vanessa
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarussell10/
Website
https://www.loveneverfailsus.com/
 
 
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086 Building a Global Startup Community with Nick Hughes

Nick Started Founders Live in Seattle, WA in 2016.
In addition to creating the global entrepreneur network Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or biz dev roles if needed. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds as well as helping start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATM’s. As a sought-after adviser, entrepreneurial speaker and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path.
 
 
On today Show we Talk about:
 
Why does your events do 99 second pitches?
Will accelerators still have a place post Covid?
What are the needs of starts based where they are located geographically?
Where are the gaps in the existing startup community infrastructure?
 
 
 
Connect with Nick
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnickhughes/
 
Websites
Founders Live https://www.founderslive.com/
 
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085 Super Bowl Winning Mindset For Business Success with Chukky Okobi

Chukky Okobi earned a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers against the Seattle Seahawks. He has also been a member of the Arizona Cardinals and Houston Texans. Chukky currently is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). With his brand, Basic Instructions, he helps executives, athletes and others to access the resources within themselves to achieve the life experience they desire.
 
We Talk About
How important is mindset in terms of success when playing in the Superbowl and as a founder of a company?
Where do startup founders, have the biggest problems?
How to reprogram your mind for success...How to have a Super Bowl winning mindset?
 
Connect with Chukky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chukkybasics/
https://www.basicinstructions.com/
 
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084 Neuroscience in Business and Tech with Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriadis

Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriadis (MBA, PhD) has been applying neuroscience in business and education for over fifteen years. He is an award-winning communications professional, educator and consultant. He is the author of the books “Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain Adaptive Leadership Approach” (now in its 2nd edition) and “Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, Skills, and Tools
 
On today Show we Talk about:
How is Artificial Intelligence impacting marketing?
Why don’t people like to talk to or trust CMO’s and what is a NeuroMarketer?
How can we train our brains to act?
What have been the major milestones in the field of neuroscience?
 
 
Connect with Dr. Nikolaso
 
Websites
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaosdimitriadis/
Email ndimitriadis75@gmail.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nikos.dimitriadis.3150
 
Books  Neuroscience for Leaders
Advance Marketing Management
 
 
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083 Mental Wellness of Startup Founders.

Waikit Lau has founded 2 machine learning-based companies that were acquired and he helped take one public. He has been on both VC and founding/operating side. 
 
Tim Alison is an entrepreneur who has started and scaled four businesses. At the age of 31 Tim walked away from one of the highest paying sales jobs in the country, moved to a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia Canada, and started an educational software company. The naysayers laughed. They stopped laughing when his sales topped $10 million.
 
Rich Razgaitis has been passionate about building brands and teams. Since 2002, he has served in CEO/president-level roles in several venture capital backed start-ups, privately held turnaround and growth companies, and he brings insight from those experiences to his work today at FloWater.
Raz was the CEO of several consumer-tech companies, including DealOn, an e-commerce company that developed the Web’s first deal-commerce exchange, and another, MyTownPerks, which built the first PCI-complaint, cloud-based loyalty program for B2B. (Both companies were subsequently acquired.)
 
 Steve Hoffman. Steve, or Captain Hoff as he’s called in Silicon Valley, is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading incubators and accelerators. He’s also an angel investor, limited partner at August Capital, serial entrepreneur, and author of Make Elephants Fly, the award-winning book on radical innovation.
Always innovating on his life, Captain Hoff has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.
Hoffman was the Founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, Board of Governors of the New Media Council, and founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group.