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060 Screw the Naysayers and fulfill your Company's Dreams with Tim Alison

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.Profit Whisperer for bricks and mortar businesses where I specialize in helping business owners identify opportunities for improved financial outcomes.Host and Executive Producer Of The Screw The Naysayers Podcast where I have interviewed and amplified the voices of guests from around the globe including the likes of Jack Canfield, Seth Godin, John Perkins and an eclectic mix of Thought Leaders, WSJ and NYT Best Selling Authors, CEO's,Olympians, Paralympians, Professional Athletes and other women and men who have overcome great adversity. All are seeking to change the world.
 
 
We Talk About
 
What are the basics that someone needs to know when looking at financials?
Price a product, what are some mistakes that people are making and what should they be doing that’s different?
How do you reverse engineer an opportunity, or look at an opportunity to see if it is worth doing or not?
 
 
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Website https://screwthenaysayers.com/podcast/
 
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059 Cannabis 101 with Canna Angels Founder Sherri Haskell

Sherri Haskell
After witnessing firsthand, the innovation and eclecticism among cannabis startups Sherri launched CannaAngels LLC: an Angel Investor Consortium focused specifically on businesses within, and supportive of, the cannabis industry. With years of experience as an alternative investment leader she has a solid knowledge of how to vet companies, structure deals, raise capital, and establish trust. As cannabis transitions into the mainstream, her accomplished team is prepared to bring a unique blend of investment intelligence, technical savvy and steadfast integrity to this industry.
 
We Talk About
 
What are some of the different verticals of the cannabis industry?
What new laws or regulations are being discussed that will impact cannabis investing and the companies in the industry?
When will we see Wall Street enter the picture?
Where will the money be made in the industry? Where is the hidden value that investors should know about?
 
 
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Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrihaskell/
Canna Angels website https://cannaangelsllc.com/
 
 
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058 Bay Angels and 20 Years of Angel Investing Experience with Founder Roger King

Roger King
 
Founder of BayAngelsBayAngels is dedicated to promoting the entrepreneurial spirit by assisting early-stage technology companies with capital, connections, and board-level advice. Examples of our portfolio companies include Pree Media, CashBet, Trpz, Sea of Change Trading Co.,
CEO of Chiefpeople20 years’ experience in recruiting at both the executive level and the individual contributor level. Interested in companies with hiring needs. Offering extremely cost-effective solutions. Clients include SoftBank Robotics, Jiff, Gracenote, OpenTable, Manage, Grid Dynamics, and Navera.
We Talk About
 
How has angel investing changed over the past 20 years?
Some suggestions for beginner angel investors?
What problems do startups make when pitching to investors?
Do angel groups talk to each other?
 
Connect with Roger
Roger@bayangels.com
Bay Angels website http://bayangels.com/ns/
 
 
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057 pt2 Deep Dive into Financial Models with CEO Broadscope Consulting Brett Sharenow

055 Deep Dive into Financial Models with CEO Broadscope Consulting Brett Sharenow pt2
Trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995 he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion. Some of Brett’s client companies: Venture and Private Equity Backed • Verio (acq. by NTT) • Viator (acq. by Trip Advisor) • Dial Page/Dial Call (acq. by Nextel) • Switch Lighting • Vistard • VirtualLan • Ethernetworks • GroWiseBeWell Academy • Puronyx • Skylights • Husk Power Systems • Yonder Private Companies • King's Hawaiian • Astrology.net (acq. by iVillage) • MagniGyro srl • MarCom International • Putnam Consulting • Strozzi Institute • Skyline International • SensoryScapes • Say it Better Center • Indy Electronics • Generative Somatics Public Companies • USWestDex • Pacific Bell • Pacific Telesis • BFGoodrich • Fujitsu • Bay Area Cellular Telephone • Olin Corporation • Pacific Bell Mobile Services
 
 
This episode we talk about:
·       Once you have the model, how do you use it to forecast how much money you need to raise?
·       What kind of expertise is needed to understand a financial model?
·       Who can build a great financial model for start-up, raising capital, growth, and exit?
How does the Fundamentals of a Financial Model work?
 
 
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Email brett@broadscope.com
Website https://www.broadscope.com/
 
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056 Deep Dive into Financial Models with CEO Broadscope Consulting Brett Sharenow pt1

 
Brett Sharenow is a trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995 he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion. Some of Brett’s client companies: Venture and Private Equity Backed • Verio (acq. by NTT) • Viator (acq. by Trip Advisor) • Dial Page/Dial Call (acq. by Nextel) • Switch Lighting • Vistard • VirtualLan • Ethernetworks • GroWiseBeWell Academy • Puronyx • Skylights • Husk Power Systems • Yonder Private Companies • King's Hawaiian • Astrology.net (acq. by iVillage) • MagniGyro srl • MarCom International • Putnam Consulting • Strozzi Institute • Skyline International • SensoryScapes • Say it Better Center • Indy Electronics • Generative Somatics Public Companies • USWestDex • Pacific Bell • Pacific Telesis • BFGoodrich • Fujitsu • Bay Area Cellular Telephone • Olin Corporation • Pacific Bell Mobile Services
 
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Guest:
Brett Sharenow on LinkedIn
Email Brett Sharenow
Website  
 
 
This episode we talk about:
How does a founder/CEO know that their strategy will work?
Should a company’s strategybe influenced by a financial model? 
What are the typical inputs and outputs in a financial model?
What can a good financial model do for a company?
 
I want to thank Shmuel Silverman who made the introduction to Brett allowing this interview to happen.
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Learn more about Brett Sharenow
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Email  brett@broadscope.com
Website  https://www.broadscope.com/
 
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055 Pt 2 Wisdom from Silicon Valley Networking Guru and CEO of LinkSV Bob Karr

For the Past 30 years Bob Karr has been both an active angel investor as well as in business development founding and growing some of the most powerful networking groups in Silicon Valley.  His current company, LinkSV is an online information service providing curated, detailed information about the senior team, board members, key partners, customers, angel, institutional and VC funding on companies in Silicon Valley.
 
This episode we talk about:  
How can parents encourage their children to become entrepreneurs?
What is LinkSV?
How to create a network that leads to being able to access anyone?
What advice do you have for people on having fun in life?
 
I would like to thank Brett Sharenow who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.
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Email bkarr@linksv.com
LinkSV http://www.linksv.com/
 
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054 Wisdom from Silicon Valley Networking Guru and CEO of LinkSV Bob Karr Pt 1

For the Past 30 years Bob Karr has been both an active angel investor as well as in business development founding and growing some of the most powerful networking groups in Silicon Valley.  His current company, LinkSV is an online information service providing curated, detailed information about the senior team, board members, key partners, customers, angel, institutional and VC funding on companies in Silicon Valley.
 
 
This episode we talk about:  
What are some of the usual questions that you ask the entrepreneur?
Practical advice for entrepreneurs to connect with Angels?
Have what angel investors looked for in startups changed over the years?
 
I would like to thank Brett Sharenow who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.
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Email bkarr@linksv.com
LinkSV http://www.linksv.com/
 
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053 Stanford to Harvard to Managing Partner at Alchemist Accelerator and More with Ravi Belani

051 Stanford to Harvard to Managing Partner at Alchemist Accelerator and More with Ravi Belani
 
Ravi Belani   is the Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator which is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating startups whose revenue comes from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator backs teams with distinctive technical founders.  He is also a Lecturer, Fenwick & West Educator of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University where for the past 8 yrs he co-teaches The Spirit of Entrepreneurship, an undergrad/grad survey course on entrepreneurship
 
We talk about:
What were some of the companies Ravi passed on investing in and why? 
How does one advise a company?
Why teach The Spirit of Entrepreneurship at Sandford University?
What are the most common questions your students ask you about entrepreneurship?
 
I would like to thank SC Moatti Managing Partner at Mighty Capital who made the introduction allowing the interview to happen.
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Website Alchemist Accelerator
Email ravi@alchemistaccelerator.com
Twitter @rbelani
 
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052 Helping your Portfolio Companies with Managing Partner of Mighty Capital SC Moatti

050 Helping your Portfolio Companies with Managing Partner of Mighty Capital SC Moatti
 
SC Moatti is a technology visionary and investor.She is the founding partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest and certainly the most influential network of product managers in the world.Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. She also serves on boards of both public and private companies, including mobile technology giant Opera Software (OPERA:Oslo).An award-winning bestselling author, Moatti frequently gives keynotes on business and technology, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and on NPR. She lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she earned her MBA and has a Master of Science in electrical engineering.Andrew Chen, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, called SC “a genius at making mobile products people love.” 
 
 
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Other than money what value can Venture Capitalists bring to the deal?
What is considered a good product?
What are common areas of negotiations between entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists?
How is it different for a Venture Capitalists to work with an early stage company verse a later or pre-IPO stage company?
What are some exciting changes in Tech to look for in the future?
 
 
We would also like to thank CJ Terral who made the introduction that allowed the interview to happen.
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051 Pt 2 of Capital to Scale with Storm Ventures MD Tae Hea Nahm & LP Bob Tinker

 
Tae Hea Nahm is co-founding MD of Storm Ventures, a Silicon Valley VC firm investing in tech start-ups all around the world. He’s also a two-time author. His second book, Survival to Thrival: Change or Be Changed explores how all people in a startup – from the executive team to the CEO and the board – need to change their roles and skills as a company grows.
 
Bob Tinker is a three-time entrepreneur.
 
Most recently, he was the founding CEO of MobileIron, which in eight years grew from ‘three people and a whiteboard’ to over $150M in annual revenue, more than 12,000 enterprise customers, and IPO in 2014. MobileIron was named the #1 fastest growing tech company from 2009-2013 by the Deloitte Fast 500.  Before than Bob was VP Business Development for wireless pioneer Airespace, which was acquired by Cisco for $450M in 2005.
 
In this episode, you’ll learn:
 
What are the 5 stages that a company goes through?
How does one unlock growth in a company?
What is the difference between the VC and the CEO perspective of the business?
How can an investor’s portfolio have synergy among the investments?
Why are Korean startups ripe for investing right now?
 
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Tae Hea Nahm
Bob Tinker
Books Website  : http://survivaltothrival.com/
The Company Journey / Change or Be Changed
https://www.stormventures.com/
 
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