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The Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place.
Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subscription.
Mike also interviews founders that are building some of the most disruptive consumer facing companies in the world. The conversation usually includes the insight the founder discovered, fundraising strategy, and the pitch.
This podcast also includes bonus episodes. Each bonus episode dives into a particular subject that might not have to due with the fundraise or venture capital, but still would be helpful to founders. For example, a bonus episode on brand strategy or how to construct a board of directors. All bonus episodes will be clearly labeled.
For all episodes, please visit www.theconsumervc.com. For updates, you can follow @mikegelb on Twitter.
Episode | Date |
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Is AI the Sole Future of Consumer Tech, What's Missing in Social & Will Glasses Be The Consumer Platform with Bryan Kim, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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Dec 10, 2024 |
How Choosing the Best Food for Your Dog Can Add Years to Their Life & The Problem with The Legacy Pet Food Market with Terri Rockovich, Co-Founder & CEO of Jinx
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Nov 13, 2024 |
How He Went From the Music Industry to VC, Investing in Tech vs. Brands, and When Down Rounds Make Sense with Jon Keidan
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Oct 18, 2024 |
The Future of Gaming: Game Economies, New Business Models, Gamification, Blockchain Technology & AI Innovation with Brian Cho, Co-Founder of Patron
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Sep 27, 2024 |
The Evolution of Premium Products in Mainstream Retail with Marcel Bens, CEO of Emil Capital Partners
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Sep 06, 2024 |
When to Invest in Consumer Technology with Vanessa Larco at NEA
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Aug 30, 2024 |
Turning Science into Consumer Brands with Osman Khan, CEO of Squared Circles
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Aug 16, 2024 |
Investing in the Future of Healthy Living with Abby Miller Levy, Managing Partner and Founder at Primetime Partners
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Aug 02, 2024 |
How They Built a Direct-to-Consumer Baby Food Brand and Scaled to Selling Millions of Products Each Month with Angela Vranich and Ben Lewis From Little Spoon
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Future of Food Tech, Can A Retail Model Like Foxtrot Work at Scale, and Channel Strategy for Food Brands with Ashley Hartman and Andrew Bluestein @ Bluestein Ventures
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Jun 27, 2024 |
Unlocking the Potential of Beauty and Personal Care Brands With Manica Blain
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Jun 06, 2024 |
The New Types of Acquirers in Health & Wellness, Different Parts Of The Term Sheet That Could Make a Difference In The Exit, and How Deals Get Done with Teddie Townsend from CG Sawaya Partners
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May 24, 2024 |
The Fusion of Past & Future Shopping Experiences, Insights from Brand Capital Fund's Consumer VC Benchmarks Report with Diana Melencio at XRC Ventures
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May 09, 2024 |
What Consumers Care About in Health & Wellness Products, How Competition Builds New Categories, and Will Ozempic Have an Impact on CPG Demand? with Dayton Miller, BFG Partners
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Live from SXSW: George Milton and Erin Link – How They Founded Yellowbird Sauce
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Apr 18, 2024 |
What Gives a Brand Acquisition Energy with Amrit Richmond
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Mar 08, 2024 |
He Worked with JAY-Z, Was an Olympian, and Now Runs a VC with Samyr Lainé, Founder of Freedom Trail Capital
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Feb 29, 2024 |
How He Built A Business Off a Fruit Peel, The Shocking Moment of Getting into Retail, and How One Chat Changed His Trajectory with Matt Weiss Founder & CEO at Rind Snacks
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Selling Group Nine Media, The Evolution of New York's Startup Scene and The Future of Digital Media with Ben Lerer, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau
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Feb 07, 2024 |
How He Buys Multi-Million Dollar Brands with Fan Bi, Founder/CEO of The Hedgehog Company
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Jan 29, 2024 |
What is a Cult Brand? With Sarah Woelfel, Co-Founder & Partner at Cult Capital
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Jan 18, 2024 |
How She's Adding The Belgian Waffle To The American Diet...and 8,400+ stores with Anouck Gotlib, CEO of Belgian Boys
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Selling 10 Million Soup Dumplings and Counting: The Story of MìLà with Caleb Wang
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Why This Venture Studio Backed By VF Corp is Investing in Consumer Tech with David Wagner and Jesse Marble, Co-Founders of Wildwood Ventures
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Nov 29, 2023 |
When Can A Celebrity-Led Brand Work with Denise Lambertson from Constellation Capital and LMS
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Nov 02, 2023 |
FinTech: What's Real and What's a Scam with Drew Glover, General Partner of Fiat Ventures
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Oct 26, 2023 |
Breaking Boundaries in Broadway: The TodayTix Story with Brian Fenty
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Oct 12, 2023 |
Will There Be Cities With No Cars? What is The Future of Urban Transportation? The Difference Between U.S. and European Markets with Martin Mignot from Index Ventures
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Transforming the Mexican Food Aisle: Miguel Leal's Journey with SOMOS Foods
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Why He Invested In Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, and a Breakdown of the Venture Studio Model with Mike Jones, Co-Founder of Science Inc.
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Aug 31, 2023 |
How She Built a $100 million CPG Brand in Three Years Selling Cauliflower Pizzas with Gail Becker, Founder of CAULIPOWER
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Aug 03, 2023 |
Decoding the Future of Media and Commerce with Kevin Parakkattu at Plug and Play
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Jul 27, 2023 |
How To Invest in Misunderstood & Highly Regulated Markets with Helene Servillon from JourneyOne Ventures
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Matt Alexander (Neighorhood Goods) - How They Are Reimaging The Department Store
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Nigel Eccles (Vault) - How He’s Helping Artists Monetize Their Music, Fandom in the Digital Age and Lessons from Creating FanDuel
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Jun 08, 2023 |
Kiva Dickinson & Madeline Kaplan (Selva Ventures) - Raising $34 Million Fund 2, Opportunities in Beauty & Personal Care, And The Value of $1 in Revenue Online vs. In Retail
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Rakesh Narayana (Access VC) - How They Are Changing The Image of Corporate Venture Capital, and How They Evaluate Opportunities From an Exit Potential
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May 25, 2023 |
Andrew Blackmon (The Black Tux) - How He Approaches Standardization, Customization and Scale Running a Tuxedo Rental Business
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May 17, 2023 |
Melissa Facchina (Siddhi Capital) - Can You Be A Great Entrepreneur But Not A Great Operator, Why She’s Not Investing In Beverage Companies, Her Way of Scaling and more
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May 09, 2023 |
Chaz Flexman (Starday Foods) - How He's Building The Next Food Conglomerate With Data Science
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May 06, 2023 |
Mike Salguero (ButcherBox)- How He Bootstrapped ButcherBox to $600 million, Why He Didn't Take Any VC Money, And Lessons From Raising Money at CustomMade
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May 02, 2023 |
Jessica Karr (Coyote Ventures) - How She Went From Scientist to Investor, The Opportunity in Women’s Health, and Why She Doesn’t Invest in Beauty & Personal Care
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures) - Could AI Be The Next Consumer Platform After The iPhone?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
When You Start, Scale, Sell and Then Buy Back Your Business From Hershey And Coca Cola with Jon Sebastiani (Krave Jerky) and Mark Rampolla (Zico)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
Elle Lanning (Camino Partners) - What KIND Snacks Got Right, What Differentiation is in CPG, and How to Back The Right Founders
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Apr 13, 2023 |
Bruce Smith (Hydrow) - Why He Believes Rowers Could Overtake Bikes, The State of Connected Fitness, and How Kevin Hart Became Their Creative Director
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Ken Sadowsky (Verlinvest) - What He Saw In VIta Coco and Vitamin Water Early, Beverage Trends He's Bearish On and How to Evaluate Entrepreneurs
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Deepak Shahdadpuri (DSG Consumer Partners) - Why India is Ripe for Premium Consumer Brands, How to Localize Brands, and Trends In India and South East Asia
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Will Nitze (IQ Bar) - How He Leveraged Harvard and Growth Hacked Indie Gogo, Why He Entered Conventional Grocery Over the Natural Channel, and Brain Food Explained
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Mar 30, 2023 |
Mark Samuel (IWON Organics) - Why His Entrepreneurial Journey Led Him to CPG, What’s Difficult About Scaling a Health Brand, Approach To New Sales Channels and Media
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Dario Wolos (Tacombi & Vista Hermosa) - Why he Started Selling Tacos Out of a VW bus in Mexico, How He Expanded to a Chain of Taquerias in New York, and Why His Mission Is To Bring Authentic Mexican Food to the World
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Mar 22, 2023 |
Live from Austin: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth (Poppi) - How They Became The #1 Soda Brand on Amazon, Pivot During COVID and How They Approach Brand
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Mar 17, 2023 |
David Friedberg (The Production Board) - What The Next Generation of Brands Look Like, How to Analyze Entrepreneurs, and What He’d Change About The All-In Podcast
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Mar 15, 2023 |
Mike Fata (Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods) - How He Founded a 9-figure Hemp Brand
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Mar 09, 2023 |
Carle Stenmark (VMG) - Why a consumer PE firm also has a $400m technology fund, the evolution of his thesis, and why VMG rebranded
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Kyle Cooke (Loverboy) - How he started a $38m alcohol brand while on a Reality TV, His journey as an entrepreneur and why Loverboy worked vs. his other ideas
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Mar 02, 2023 |
Marc Washington (Supergut) - Why better health starts with the gut, What is the gut microbiome and His innovation within CPG
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Feb 28, 2023 |
Steve Berg (Stride Consumer Partners) - How to invest in consumer companies at the growth stage, what types of brands work in both natural and conventional, and how to analyze retail outlets
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Joey Guerra and Alex Dashefsky (Airsign) - Why the vacuum cleaner needed innovation, brand positioning, and their approach to organic marketing
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Feb 21, 2023 |
Mateo Marietti (CookUnity) - How he’s changing the food delivery experience for daily meals, how he works with the top chefs in the world, and growth during the pandemic
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Feb 17, 2023 |
Anthony Zhang (Vinovest) - What makes wine a profitable investible asset, How he recovered from a spinal injury that left him paralyzed while guiding his company to a successful exit, and other alternative investment markets
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Feb 14, 2023 |
James Currier (NFX) - How generative A.I. changes the internet, Will startups be able to capture the value, and Will OpenAI succeed
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Feb 10, 2023 |
Adam Ross (Heyday) - Why he found a facial retail chain, franchise models vs. corporate stores, and producing products
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Ryan Woodbury (Needed) - How she's building a bundled DTC subscription business with prenatal products, why it took 3 years of R&D research before launching and her fundraising philosophy
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Feb 03, 2023 |
Lydia Jett (SoftBank) - How she invests in eCommerce at a global scale, How to evaluate emerging markets, and Learnings from 2022
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Aimy Steadman (BeatBox) - How she created a drink for music festivals, fundraising on SharkTank and how a change in product packaging was an unlock to scale
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Jan 26, 2023 |
Wyatt Taubman (Vive Organic) - How he discovered immunity shots, the learning curves building a CPG brand and why they sold to Suja Juice
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Yanni Hufnagel (Lemon Perfect) - Why He Left Basketball To Founding a Lemon Water Company, Getting Beyoncé to Invest, and How He Scaled Distribution Nationally
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Elly Truesdell (New Fare Partners) - How she started a cat food brand with Bobby Flay, Going from Whole Foods to launching VC fund, When brands should vertically integrate
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Annie Kadavy (RedPoint Ventures) – How she invested in Patreon, Classpass and DoorDash, What Are Investible business models, and Lessons Learned as a Founder
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Jan 12, 2023 |
Chris Ashenden (Athletic Greens) - How he founded a billion dollar nutrition brand, why he waited until $150m in sales to raise capital, and creating a new consumer habit
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Jan 10, 2023 |
Davis Smith (Cotopaxi) - Why he started a mission-led outdoor apparel brand, the difference between Cotopaxi and Patagonia, and lessons learned from his first two businesses
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Jan 05, 2023 |
Matt Higgins (RSE Ventures) - How he became a Shark on SharkTank, Why he invested in Gary Vee, and the future of Direct to Consumer
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Josh Cliffords (FreeWater) - How He Found a New Business Model for Bottled Water
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Dec 30, 2022 |
Sean Riley (DUDE Wipes) - How he went from $0 to $90 million in sales selling flushable wipes, Getting Mark Cuban to Invest on SharkTank and Why he chose bootstrapping
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Ty Haney (Outdoor Voices, Joggy, TYB)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Chuck Newhall (NEA)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Steve Case (AOL.com, Revolution, Rise of the Rest)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Jessica Peltz-Zatulove (Hannah Grey
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Joe Kudla (Vouri)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Mike Ghaffary (Canvas VC)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Greer Tessler & Cara Kaufman (Simple Food Ventures)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Jason Karp (HumanCo)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Holiday Highlights: Nagraj Kashyap (SoftBank Investment Advisors)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
Sarah Foley (SWAT Equity Partners) – Investing in Consumer vs. Tech
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Dec 15, 2022 |
Brigette Wolf (Mondelēz) - Inside Mondelēz's Innovation Hub
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Dec 13, 2022 |
Ashley Hartman (Bluestein Ventures) - Investing in The Future of Food
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Dec 08, 2022 |
Vijen Patel (The 81 Collection & Pressbox) - Why building & investing in hardware is overlooked
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Dec 06, 2022 |
Ty Haney (Outdoor Voices, Joggy, TYB) - Why she left Outdoor Voices, how brands can leverage crypto, and creating a CBD line
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Dec 02, 2022 |
Jesse Pujji (Gateway X) - How Brands Should Approach Performance Marketing Today, When To Raise Equity vs. Boostrapping & How He Incubates Companies
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Nov 30, 2022 |
Marcos Gonzalez (VamosVentures) - Why he left PE to start a VC fund that invests in minority-led businesses
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Nov 22, 2022 |
Steve Case (AOL, Revolution & Rise of the Rest) - Why He's Optimistic About Innovation in Secondary and Tertiary American Cities
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Nov 15, 2022 |
Joe Welch (In Good Taste) – How you can make money in wine and why he left tech to found a beverage company
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Wayne Hu and Josh Constine (SignalFire) - The Current State of NFTs & Which Web2 media Platform is Best Positioned for Web3?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Ben Jones (Haus Labs by Lady Gaga) - Inside Lady Gaga's Beauty Brand
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Katlin Smith (Simple Mills) - How She's Building a Next Generation Food Company
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Oct 27, 2022 |
Eze Vidra (Remagine Ventures) - Investing in Israel, Media, and the Metaverse
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Abraham Shafi (IRL) - Building a community rather than an audience
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Ashleigh Hinde (Waldo) - Building a brand with a product you can't see - contact lenses
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Oct 14, 2022 |
Mike Hirshland (Resolute Ventures) - The state of pre-seed & seed investing
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Oct 11, 2022 |
Mike Senackerib (Dewey's Bakery) - How a 90-year old bake shop turned into a CPG powerhouse
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Mike Mayer (Windmill) - Building the smart AC Unit that's eye candy for your window
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Matt Gibson (New Culture) - Creating Cheese Without the Cow
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Sep 30, 2022 |
Noah Gray (Onda) - How he's Scaling Shay Mitchell's Tequila Seltzer Brand
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Sep 27, 2022 |
Brent Vartan (Bullish) - How desires lead to opportunities & Bullish on Consumer Report
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Cristina Nuñez (True Beauty Ventures) - How to invest in beauty and personal care brands
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Alison Cayne (Haven's Kitchen) - From founding a cooking school to creating a sauce brand
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Sep 15, 2022 |
Chuck Newhall (NEA) - How he founded one of the most successful venture capital firms in history
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Sep 08, 2022 |
Nick Moran (New Stack Ventures) - Going from podcast to syndicate to fund, how he’s investing in founders outside major markets and the state of the current VC market
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Aug 25, 2022 |
Sita Chantramonklasri (Siam Capital) - How to raise a VC fund as a first-time manager, what investing in sustainability really means and her due diligence process
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Clément Pointillart (Verlinvest) - How do you examine brand equity, Why rummaging through the trash made him interested in consumer and Does product innovation matter in CPG
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Aug 18, 2022 |
Jonathan Wolfson (Brainiac Foods) - What nutrients have been missing for kids and how he’s changing it
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Aug 16, 2022 |
Susan Lin (Felix) - What consumer-driven means, what are real competitive advantages for companies, and why Felix raised $600 million
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Aug 09, 2022 |
Ollie Forsyth (Antler) - The New Creator Economy, Web3 and what social platforms are most vulnerable right now
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Aug 04, 2022 |
Mike Asem (M25) - Why the midwest the perfect place to launch and invest in consumer startups, diversity report insights and creating a VC board game
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Jeff Nobbs (Zero Acre Farms) - How he's changing cooking oil for the better
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Jul 26, 2022 |
Mark Achler (MATH Venture Partners) - How to Exit Right
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Jul 21, 2022 |
Justine Palefsky (Kindred) - How she created a travel community that led to a house swapping platform, how to construct a marketplace where your supply equals your demand, and approach to monetization
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Jul 19, 2022 |
Juan Pablo Cappello (Nue Life) - Ketamine and psychedelic therapy, what’s wrong with current healthcare incentives, and picking the right investment partners
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Luke Vernon (Ridgeline Ventures) - Why family offices are great investment partners for brands, investment timelines and do brands need product innovation to succeed?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Joe Spector (Dutch) - How he’s changing the pet industry and how his approach to fundraising has evolved
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Brian O’Malley (Forerunner Ventures) - How he’s investing in the empowerment economy, the evolution of consumer venture capital and raising $1 billion fund
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Jul 05, 2022 |
John Timar (Kill Cliff) - Why they doubled down on their core audience in times of doubt, How the Navy SEALs inspired the creation of the brand, and His approach to partnerships for growth
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Patrick Chun (Juxtapose) - What is an inception stage investment firm, why it’s less risky than modern venture capital, how he recruits CEOs to lead each business he incubates
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Patrick Schwarzenegger (MOSH) - Why he's creating the tools for a "mindstyle" lifestyle, why he co-founded a brain bar brand and how he got into angel investing in health and wellness brands
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Ariana Thacker (Conscience VC) - What it means to invest in deep tech x consumer, How she raised her first VC fund, and Her definition of a moat
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Paul Voge (Aura Bora) - Why he decided to found a sparkling water company with weird flavors, How he entered retail during COVID, and What perception he would change when founding a CPG business
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Joe Marchese (Human Ventures) - What marketing channels brands overlook, how to partner with founders and build investment firms
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Matt Nichols (Commerce Ventures) - How Brands Can Leverage Web.3 to Build Community, The Future of Retail From a Crypto Lens, and Use Cases Where Web.3 Might Not Be Impactful
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Seth Goldman & Chef Spike Mendelsohn (Eat The Change & PLNT Burger) - Why they decided to found two companies together, and their approach to making the world a better place
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May 26, 2022 |
Amy Lacey (Cali’flour Foods) - How she created a cauliflower pizza dough that exploded online and the changes she had to make for retail
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May 24, 2022 |
Melissa Urban (Whole30) - How she founded Whole30 and created her own health & wellness content empire
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May 19, 2022 |
Jordan Gaspar (AF Ventures) - How she transitioned from law to investor, when brands are going omnichannel, and her approach to portfolio construction
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May 17, 2022 |
Marc Hostovsky (Minoan) - How he's creating 'native retail', connecting ecommerce and in real life experiences to try out products
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May 12, 2022 |
Natalie Gordon (Babylist) - How she combined content and commerce to better serve expecting parents, her approach to raising capital and creative product partnerships
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May 05, 2022 |
Nick Saltarelli (Mid-Day Squares) - How he built a passionate audience, why his family decided to found a chocolate company, and their approach to content
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May 03, 2022 |
Michael Duda (Bullish) - How to invest in brands that can appeal to the early majority, the two ways to win as a brand, and why all consumers are liars
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Sumi Das (CapitalG) - How to invest in consumer tech in both U.S. and emerging markets, when does the growth stage start, and the advantages of having a single LP structure
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Nuno Gonçalves Pedro (Chamaeleon) - What consumer technology will make its way to the west, do companies create new markets, what’s after the iPhone?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital) - Why investing in technological innovation is overlooked by most VCs, how to invest in at the intersection of deep tech x consumer
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Jeff Cantalupo and Brentos Fernandez (Listen Ventures) - How to build compelling brands through the power of storytelling
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Apr 11, 2022 |
Michele Romanow (Clearco) - The Three Critical Marketing Metrics for DTC Brands, When VC Money Makes Sense and When It doesn't and The Insight That Led to Founding Clearco
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Mac the VC (Rarebreed Ventures) - How He Leveraged Twitter To Raise a Fund, Why He Decided To Start RareBreed, How He Evaluates Customer Acquisition Strategy, and The Current State of Venture Capital
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Michael Ronen (Branded) - Why He's Building a Portfolio of Amazon Brands, The Aggregation Opportunity within eCommerce and Why He Left SoftBank Investment Partners
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Jason Karp (HumanCo) - How he started Hu Kitchen & Hu Chocolate, The Rebranding of Coconut Bliss to Cosmic Bliss, His Value System within Food and His Mission with HumanCo
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Jackie Fast (Sandbox Studios) - How to Build a Talent-Led Brand, The Intersection of Celebrity x Entrepreneurship and What Makes A Great Partnership
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Greer Tessler and Cara Kaufman (Simple Food Ventures) - Why they only invest in CPG products that work on-shelf, the difference between better for the planet and better for you, and analyzing product differentiation
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Ksenia Yudina (UNest) - How she's Helping Parents Invest in Their Kids
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Feb 17, 2022 |
Eric Kinariwala (Capsule) - How one visit to pick up his prescription led him to create a new type of pharmacy
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Mike Smerklo (Next Coast Ventures) - What it was like working for Ben Horowitz, How he set up a search fund and bought a company, Why he invests in consumer when he comes from enterprise
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Walker Drewett (NuBrakes) - How He Started a Mobile Brake Repair Company with No Automative Experience
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Feb 08, 2022 |
Joe Kudla (Vuori) - What Was Missing From Active Apparel, How He Scaled His Brand Profitably, and How He Pivoted To Find Customer-Fit
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Feb 03, 2022 |
John Foraker (Once Upon a Farm) - How To Craft A Story For Retail, Why Jennifer Garner Came On Board as Chief of Brand, and Their Approach To Scale
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Brandon Yahn (Convivialité Ventures) - Why the Second Largest Wine & Spirit Company is Investing in Consumer Tech
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Avrum Elmakis (CLMBR) - How He's Bringing Vertical Climbing To Your Home, The Future of Fitness and How He Fundraised From Top Athletes
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Abigail Cook Stone (Otherland) - How She Turned Her Love of Scents into a Leading Candle Brand
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Jan 21, 2022 |
Nagraj Kashyap (SoftBank Vision Fund) - His Three Consumer Investment Themes, How Fund 2 is Different From Fund 1, and How He Invests in Tech and Non-Tech Businesses
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Jan 19, 2022 |
Jessica Peltz-Zatulove (Hannah Grey) - How Brands Are Engaging with Web3, Why Identity Driven Brands Will Win and The Metaverse
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Mike Ghaffary (Canvas) - What’s next after the iPhone, Unpacking Web3, Metaverse and Remote First Products, and Is this the time to be investing in B2C or B2B
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Jan 11, 2022 |
Tushar Garg (Flyhomes) - How He’s Helping Families Buy Their First Home, and Why Real Estate Still Hasn’t Seen Much Innovation
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Stephen Hughes (Sunrise Strategic Partners) - What Makes a Great Market, When Should a DNVB Hit Retail and the History of the Natural Foods Movement
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Nisha Dua (BBG Ventures) - Opportunities within health and wellness, Investing in climate friendly consumption and solving problems for the 99%
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Ben Sun (Primary Venture Partners) - Lessons Learned from Building The First Social Networking Site, The Rise of New York's Tech Scene, and Are Early-Stage Companies Overvalued in Today's Market?
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Brett Thomas (CAVU Venture Partners) - How He Adds Billboard Value, His Approach to Brand Building, and When Consumer Companies Should Raise Capital
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Sarah LaFleur, Founder & CEO of M.M. LaFleur
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Dec 13, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Madeline Haydon, CEO of nut pods
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Jeremy Cai, Founder & CEO of Italic
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Dec 09, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Denise Woodard, Founder & CEO of Partake Foods
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Mark Gainey, Founder of Strava
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Holiday Recap: Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Alex Fine, CEO of Dame Products
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Nov 30, 2021 |
Denise Woodard (Partake Foods) - How Her Daughter Inspired Denise to Leave Her Well Paying Job and Create A Cookie Everyone Can Eat, How She Started in Retail from Day One, and Impact of COVID
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Nov 23, 2021 |
Lori Coulter (Summersalt) - How She Built an Inclusive Swimwear & Apparel Brand
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Sarah LaFleur (M.M.LaFleur) - Changing workwear for women and adapting through COVID
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Michael Markesbery (OROS) - How he is Sciencing the S*** Out of Everything and Bringing Space Tech to Outdoor Apparel
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Jeremy Cai (Italic) - How he created THE C2M Online Marketplace for Luxury Goods, What he learned from Amazon and Costco, and The Evolution of eCommerce
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Tali Vogelstein (Avid Ventures) - Are Valuations High, How to invest globally, and What Verticalized Fintech means
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Jon Sebastiani (Sonoma Brands + Krave) - Growing up as a winemaker, How he started, scaled, sold Krave and why he decided to buy back the brand, & What's next in consumer
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Stuart Landesberg (Grove Collaborative) - How he built a brand devoted to eco-friendly products and why inve
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Carter Reum (M13) - Why LA is the Place to Build a Consumer Company, His Approach to Fund Differentiation, and Starting a Venture Capital Fund with you Brother
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Oct 26, 2021 |
Will Schmitt (Miroma Ventures) - Investing with a value add, considerations before heading to retail and pulling the right levers for growth
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Oct 21, 2021 |
Doug Hudson (Tend) - The First Dentist You Look Forward To Visiting
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Claire Díaz-Ortiz - Why solo female founders are underserved, investing early in LATAM, and getting the Pope on Twitter
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Oct 14, 2021 |
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - How he created Bonobos, why they sold to Walmart, the current state of DNVBs, and a sneak peek of what he's doing next
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Rui Ma (Tech Buzz China) - Chinese Crossover Brands, C2M Supply Chains and Future of Livestreaming
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Andrea Hippeau (Lerer Hippeau) - Investing in Pet Care, When a Digitally Native Brand Should Head Into Retail and Raising from Family Offices vs. VCs
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Oct 05, 2021 |
Kevin Campos (Fifth Wall) - Why Landlords Should Love Tech Enabled Tenants, Omnichannel Strategy For DNVBs and Growing Up in Retail
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Sep 30, 2021 |
Gabby Etrog Cohen & Tehmina Haider (Harry's) - Building Harry's Portfolio of Brands
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Neil Sequeira (Defy) - When to invest before the Series A, the verticalization of social and the future of celebrity co-founded business
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Sep 21, 2021 |
Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital) - The evolution of New York's startup ecosystem, staying price discipline and what it means to be a generalist
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Sep 16, 2021 |
Andrew Gluck (irrvrntVC) - How to evaluate DTC brands with a growth marketers lens, starting a rolling fund and what's next for commerce
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Sep 14, 2021 |
Rex Woodbury (Index Ventures) - Web 3.0, Culture and Investing in the Metaverse
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Allon Bloch (K Health) - Founding two public companies, the future of health and how to approach which markets are ripe for disruption
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Sep 07, 2021 |
Ali Hamed (CoVenture) - The Amazon Opportunity, Future of Social, and Credit at the Early Stages
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Aug 31, 2021 |
Paul Hsiao (Canvas Ventures) - How the Data Economy Is Impacting Consumer and the State of the Series A
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Aug 24, 2021 |
Sam Corcos (Levels) - Solving the metabolic health crisis with real time glucose monitoring
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Ben Savage (Clocktower Technology Ventures) - Why the future is Fintech, Fractional Ownership and Lessons Learned from Ray Dalio
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Aug 17, 2021 |
Katie Shea (Divergent Capital) - Why Consumer Brands Have Higher Benchmarks Than Ever
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Henri Pierre-Jacques (Harlem Capital) - His mission to invest in 1,000 diverse founders over 20 years
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Aug 10, 2021 |
Harpreet Singh Rai (Oura) - How to improve your sleep and why we should track it
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Aug 05, 2021 |
Bri Kimmel (Worklife Ventures) - Having Fun is Serious Business
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Haley Rosen (Just Women's Sports) - Starting a sports media company through the pandemic, the relationship between athlete and journalist, and why women's sports are overlooked
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Jordan Nathan (Caraway) - Scaling one of the fastest growing brands during COVID
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Jul 27, 2021 |
Ben West (Spark Grills) - The flavor of charcoal and the ease of gas combine to make the modern precision grill
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Max Niederhofer (Heartcore) - Investing in happiness and the differences scaling in Europe vs. U.S.
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Tige Savage (Revolution) - Investing in regulated industries and outside of SIlicon Valley
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Jul 15, 2021 |
Ernesto Schmitt (The Craftory) - Why digitally native brands should wait to head into retail, and investing globally at the Series A
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Jul 13, 2021 |
John Sherwin (Hydrant) - Are we in a dehydration crisis?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
Heather Hartnett (Human Ventures) - The Human Needs Economy
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Megan Bent (Harbinger Ventures) - Why milk alternatives is in a better position than cell based meat to win, the benefits of a concentrated portfolio, and sharing carried interest
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Tyler Mincey (Bolt VC) - New business models for SaaS + Box, design vs. sustainability and what's next in tech enabled products
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Rachel ten Brink - Founding Scentbird, investing in personal care, and how to grow online
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Brian Reilly (Will Ventures) - The opportunities investing in sports, media and telehealth
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Sandy Gibson (Better Place Forests) - New natural traditions for your final resting place
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Jun 17, 2021 |
John Gannon (GoingVC) - How to break into venture capital and the power of cohort based learning
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Jun 15, 2021 |
Ben Zises (SuperAngel.Fund) - Starting a rolling fund, what first check-in means, and lessons learned from founding
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Jun 10, 2021 |
Justin Kolbeck (Wild Type) - Creating the most sustainable seafood, the state of the ocean, and developing fast feedback loops
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Jun 08, 2021 |
Steve Sashen (Xero Shoes) - Building the ultimate minimalist shoe
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Jun 03, 2021 |
Ariel Kaye (Parachute) - Creating the leading brand in bedding and home decor
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Lindsay Kaplan (Chief) - Building the network for women leaders
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May 27, 2021 |
Kate Shillo Beardsley (Hannah Grey) - The early days of venture capital in New York, learning from Martha Stewart, and the creator economy
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May 25, 2021 |
Mark Gainey (Strava) - Building the social network for athletes
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May 20, 2021 |
Matteo Franceschetti (Eight Sleep) - Why we should optimize our sleep
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May 18, 2021 |
Amir Nathoo (Outschool) - Building a direct to family marketplace to help kids learn what they want to learn
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May 13, 2021 |
Madeline Haydon (nutpods) - Developing creamers from scratch with no food and bev experience, using Amazon as a testing ground, and fundraising without a network
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May 11, 2021 |
Elizabeth Galbut (SoGal Ventures) - The biggest arbitrage opportunity of her lifetime, managing a global investment fund, and leveraging her community to make decisions
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May 06, 2021 |
Ryan Gnesin (Elevate Brands) - Investing and Scaling Amazon Brands
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May 04, 2021 |
Dan Reich (Troops.ai + TULA) - From skincare to SaaS, building B2C and B2B businesses
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Apr 29, 2021 |
Robin Li (GGV Capital) - What U.S. investors can learn from China's consumer internet, bringing small businesses online and opportunities in the creator economy
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Callie Christensen and Kelly Oriard (Slumberkins) - Creating stories to help teach children emotional learning, scaling organically and fundraising when you don't have a lead investor
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Apr 22, 2021 |
Andrew Dudum (hims & hers) - The Future of Telehealth
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Eric Doty (Loupe) - Building the world's largest community of sports card collectors
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Apr 15, 2021 |
Monique Woodard (Cake Ventures) - The three layers of cake investment thesis, the future of work, and demographic changes that lead into opportunity
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Apr 13, 2021 |
Sara Deshpande (Maven) - Investing in companies building on top of Zoom and opportunities in Telehealth
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Apr 08, 2021 |
Morgan Hirsh (Public Goods) - Finding simplicity while focusing on selling sustainable essentials
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Apr 06, 2021 |
Alexandra Fine (Dame Products) - Normalizing Sexual Wellness and Self Care Products
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Apr 01, 2021 |
Aditi Dash and Joe Hovde (CircleUp) - Balancing data with founder-market fit when investing in consumer brands
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Mar 29, 2021 |
Wendy Tsu & Susannah Shipton (AlleyCorp) - Going from idea to venture-scalable business
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Mar 25, 2021 |
Leigh Radford (P&G Ventures) - What is Corporate Venture Capital, and the Advantages For Aspiring Brands
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Carey Smith (Unorthodox) - Scaling Big Ass Fans to $250 million and What It Means to be a Contrarian Investor
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Mar 18, 2021 |
Helaine Knapp (CITYROW) - How Running Injuries Led Her To Start Boutique Rowing Fitness Gyms and Transforming The Studio Experience to At-Home
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Mar 16, 2021 |
Brandon Schwartz and Lawrence Cisneros (DRNXMYTH) - Creating World Class Cocktails, Partnering with Bartenders, and Creating a Marketplace Out of a Bottle
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Kelsey Moreira (Doughp) - Leaving Tech to Start a Cookie Dough Company, Growth of Ecommerce During COVID, and Her Appearance on Shark Tank
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Mercedes Bent (Lightspeed) - The State of Series A, Future of EdTech, and Evolution of Investment Products
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Hugh Thomas (Ugly) - The Opportunity He Saw With Sparkling Water, Why He Started OmniChannel, and Approach to Overseas Expansion
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Mar 02, 2021 |
Tyler Morgan (BFG Partners): How His Passion for Health & Wellness Led Him Into CPG, Changes During COVID, and The Evolution of BFG
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Feb 18, 2021 |
Deborah Benton (Willow Growth Partners) - The Need to Focus on Profitability from Day One, Why Raising Lots of Money Doesn't Mean Success, and Her Investment Philosophy at Willow Growth
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Feb 16, 2021 |
Brendan Rogers (Wag! and 2 a.m.) - Founding Wag!, Scaling by Doing Unscalable Things, and Investment Opportunities in India
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Feb 11, 2021 |
Amanda Groves (PLUS Capital) - The Power of Celebrity, The Most Unlikely Partnership, and Managing an Advisory Practice with a VC Fund
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Beatriz Acevedo (SUMA) - Why Personal Finance, How Content Can Build Community and Educate, and Creating Products Serving the Latinx Community
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Feb 04, 2021 |
Rick Desai (Listen) - What Makes a Compelling Brand, Why He Loves Patagonia, and His Approach to Investing in Consumer Products
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Feb 02, 2021 |
Steven Wolfe Pereira (Encantos) - Teaching Kids 21st Century Skills, Building a Direct to Learner EdTech Company, and Overlooked Opportunities That Make Real Impact
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Jeff Housenbold (Softbank) - Approach to Risk with $100B AUM, Identifying Markets That Are Ripe for Disruption, and Assessing Value Chains
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Jan 26, 2021 |
Michael Nogen (Overton VC) - Founding Theality Maternity Wear, Learnings Working at Gap and How He Thinks about Innovation
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Jan 21, 2021 |
Andrew Goletka & Franklin Isacson (Coefficient Capital) - Behaviors that changed forever in 2020, Investing in CPG at the Series A, and when to go into retail
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Lucy Deland (Inspired Capital) - Founding Paperless Post, How Design Became Critical To Software, and Why She's A Generalist Investor
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Jan 14, 2021 |
Brian Requarth (Latitud + Viva Real) - Building an Online Real Estate Marketplace in Latin America, Raising Money Without a Network, and Solving Supply vs. Demand
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Jan 12, 2021 |
Sapna Shah (Red Giraffe) - Future of Retail, Drop Shipping, and Small World, Long Life
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Jan 07, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Ezra Galston, Founding Partner of Starting Line
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Jan 05, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Natalie Dillon, Principal at Maveron
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Jan 04, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Anna Whiteman, Vice President at Coefficient Capital
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Jan 03, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Charles Hudson, Founding Partner Precursor Ventures
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Jan 02, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Sarah Kunst, Managing Director of Cleo Capital
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Jan 01, 2021 |
Holiday Highlights: Sasha Astafyeva, Partner at Atomico
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Dec 31, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Michael Duda, Founding Partner of Bullish
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Dec 30, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Kanyi Maqubela, Managing Partner Kindred Ventures
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Dec 29, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Samara Hernandez, Founding Partner Chingona Ventures
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Dec 28, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Eric Paley, Founding Partner at Founder Collective
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Dec 27, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Soraya Darabi, Founding Partner TMV
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Dec 26, 2020 |
Holiday Highlights: Rishi Garg, Partner at Mayfield Fund
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Dec 25, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Jiake Liu, CEO of Outer
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Dec 18, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Jessica Rolph & Rod Morris, Co-CEOs of Lovevery
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Dec 17, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Michael Barlow, CEO of Fernish
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Dec 16, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Betsy Fore & Sofia Laurell, Co-CEOs of Tiny Organics
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: George Milton, CEO of Yellowbird Sauce
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Dec 14, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Coulter Lewis, CEO of Sunday
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Dec 13, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Adelle Archer, CEO of Eterneva
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Dec 12, 2020 |
Holiday Recap: Kate Boyle, CEO of Banjo Robinson
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Dec 11, 2020 |
Annoucement: Consumer VC Holiday Schedule
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Dec 10, 2020 |
Matthias Metternich (Art of Sport) - Building the Nike of Body Care, The Power of the Athlete, and How to Build a Compelling Story for Retail
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Dec 08, 2020 |
Aaron Fu (Catalyst Fund) - The Biggest Misconception When Investing In Emerging Markets, Difference Between Selling to SMBs and Consumers, and the Effects of Mobile First
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Dec 03, 2020 |
Vincent Diallo & Joseph Sartre (Interlace Ventures) - Why ecommerce is boring, Why is China at the Forefront of Retail Tech, and Headless Commerce Explained
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Dec 01, 2020 |
Michael Barlow (Fernish) - The Advantage of Not Knowing, His Approach to Building a Rental Furniture Supply Chain, and The Biggest Hurdle When Fundraising
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Nov 24, 2020 |
Samara Hernandez (Chingona Ventures) - Why Chicago, How Diverse VC Teams Lead To Investing In Markets That Are Overlooked, and Some of the Differences When Investing In Consumer vs. Enterprise
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Nov 19, 2020 |
Elizabeth Edwards (H Ventures) - Why Some DNVBs Don't Work On Shelf, Different Customer Insights You Receive in Retail vs. DTC and Demystifying Corporate Venture Capital
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Taylor Nieman (Toucan) - Browser Extension Businesses, The Power of Partnerships, and Her Unique Approach to Fundraising
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Nov 12, 2020 |
Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Next Big Thing) - Why Investing in Consumer Subscription Businesses Has Become The Next Big Thing, and The Reasons Physical Goods and Software Businesses Aren't That Different
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Nov 10, 2020 |
Carlton Fowler (Goat Rodeo Capital) - The Changing Landscape In Beverage, Why Beverage is Poised For Ecommerce, and His Thoughts Around Portfolio Construction
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Oct 29, 2020 |
Han Shen (iFly.VC) - How He Thinks About Overlooked Opportunities, Focusing on a Sector Rather Than Becoming Opportunistic, and How One of His Portfolio Companies Was Able to Pivot Successfully
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Elaine Russell (Greycroft) - The Future of Retail, How to Choose a Co-Founder, and Running a Single LP Fund
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Oct 22, 2020 |
Yury Lifshits (Openland) - How to Build a Community, The Hard Pivot, and Minimizing Friction
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Bonus: Jordan Odinsky (Ground Up) - Cult Brands, Launch Strategies and the Importance of Celebrating The Failures
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Sep 22, 2020 |
Wayne Wu (VMG) – His Ecosystem Approach, How He Builds Community In CPG, and Advice for Founders Located in Secondary Markets
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Sep 16, 2020 |
Maya Horgan Famodu (Ingressive Capital) - Investing in Sub-Saharan Africa, What She Looks For When Entering New Countries, How to Build Startup Ecosystems in Frontier Markets
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Sep 11, 2020 |
Nate Cooper (Barrel Ventures): Lessons Learned from Founding Two Companies, The Beauty of Chicago and Investing in Markets that are Overlooked
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Sep 09, 2020 |
Sarah Kunst (Cleo Capital) - The Future of Work, Complicated Consumer and How to Have a Diverse Portfolio
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Sep 03, 2020 |
Sunny Dhillon (Signia Partners) - Grocery Store Technology, Why Beauty Brands Are Great To Invest In, and Changes in Retail
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Sep 01, 2020 |
Hilary Quartner (Hilma) - Creating The "Clinical Herbal" Category, Her Fundraising Strategy, and The Decision Making Process with Two CEOs
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Aug 27, 2020 |
Alix Peabody (Bev) - From Producing Events to Founding a Wine Company, The Challenges When Raising Capital, and How She Thinks About Opportunities
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Office Hour 2. David Goldberg (Corigin Ventures)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
Jiake Liu (Outer) - How Outer Became The Fastest Growing DNVB In The US, His Approach to Showrooms, and Why You Can't Rely On "Build It and They Will Come"
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Aug 20, 2020 |
Dan Gluck (Powerplant) - The Opportunity He Saw After Reading "Born To Run" and His Inspiration Behind Investing in Plant Based Products
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Aug 18, 2020 |
Alex Levitt (Yellow) - Inside Snap Inc.'s Launchpad for Startups, Building Products On Top of Social Platforms, and Her Diligence Process
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Aug 13, 2020 |
Betsy Fore and Sofia Laurell (Tiny Organics) - Delivering The Healthiest Food to Babies, Approaching a Co-CEO Partnership, and Their Unique Way of Approaching Organic Growth
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Mitch Hayes (Los Sundays) - Building a Tequila Brand for the Millennial, Focusing on Generating Demand, and a Taste of the Beverage Industry
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Aug 06, 2020 |
Sasha Astafyeva (Atomico) - Growing a Real Estate Tech Company in Brazil, Series A Consumer Landscape in Europe, and How She Thinks About International Expansion
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Nick Mindel (Amberstone) - Differences Between Trends and Fads, The Opportunity He Saw Investing In Consumer Brands, Why He's Bullish On Founders Located In Secondary Markets
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Jul 30, 2020 |
Ezra Galston (Starting Line) - Benefits of Chicago, Managed vs. Lightly Managed Marketplaces, and Consumer for the 99%
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Jul 28, 2020 |
Coulter Lewis (Sunday) - Introducing D2C & Environmentally Friendly Lawn Care, and Lessons From a Serial Entrepreneur
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Jul 23, 2020 |
Adam Cohen-Aslatei (S'more) - Bringing Inclusivity and Honesty to Online Dating, and How He Successfully Fundraised
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Jul 21, 2020 |
Jesse Draper (Halogen) - Why Investing In Female Led Businesses is Such a Massive Opportunity, Los Angeles Consumer Tech Scene, and Consuming Meaningful Content
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Jul 16, 2020 |
Soraya Darabi (TMV) - The Care Economy, Where Change Needs to Start In VC, and How to Approach Market Sizing
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Jul 14, 2020 |
Meera Clark (Obvious Ventures) - How COVID led to a Crossroads in Healthy Habits, Milestones at Series A, and How She Thinks About Sustainability and Consumer Centric
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Jul 09, 2020 |
Eric Paley (Founder Collective) - Why Most Successful Companies Struggle To Convince VCs of Their Market Size, The Biggest Risk After Finding Product-Market Fit, and Why Pro-Rata Only Benefits Investors, Not Founders
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Jul 07, 2020 |
Office Hour 1. Jason Shuman (Primary Ventures) - Recorded Live June 9th
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Jul 04, 2020 |
Alex French (Bizzy Coffee) - The Cold Brew Competitive Landscape, Becoming #1 on Amazon, and Some of The Differences Raising from VCs and Family Offices
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Jul 02, 2020 |
Pippa Lamb (Sweet Capital) - Why Consumer Habits Developed During COVID Are Here To Stay, 99% Execution & 1% Vision, and Defining A Founder's Unfair Advantage
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Jun 30, 2020 |
Compilation: Fundraising from the Founder Perspective
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Jun 25, 2020 |
Dan Graham (Springdale Ventures) - How He Scaled buildasign.com to over $100 million, The Opportunity He Saw Investing in CPG in Austin, and the Differences Analyzing DTC and Retail Brands
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Jun 22, 2020 |
Jessica Rolph and Roderick Morris (Lovevery) - Building Toys For Different Stages of a Child's Development, Advice When Co-Founding A Company, and Their Approach to Fundraising
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Jun 18, 2020 |
George Milton (Yellowbird Sauce) - Becoming The Hot Sauce Guy While Playing Gigs in Austin, Early Distribution Growing Pains, Getting into National Retail
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Jun 15, 2020 |
Tyler Handley (Inkbox) -Tattoos, Defining and New Market, and Why Stickiness Lies Within The Technology
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Jun 11, 2020 |
Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures) - Why There's Been an Explosion in Seed and Late Stage Funds, Diversity Amongst Investors & Market Risk, and Why he's interested in Learning Why Something Is Not Fundable
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Jun 08, 2020 |
Catharine Dockery (Vice Ventures) - Cannabis, Alcohol, Nicotine, Gambling and Everything Vice
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Jun 04, 2020 |
Compilation: One Piece of Advice Investors Have for B2C Founders
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Jun 03, 2020 |
Nadine Habayeb (Bohana) - The Future of Superfood Healthy Snacks, How Eastern Traditions Have Migrated West, and Finding Product-Market Fit
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May 28, 2020 |
Daniel Gulati (Comcast Ventures) - Execution vs. Network Type Business, How To Think About Winning a Category, and Evaluating Blue Ocean Opportunities
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May 26, 2020 |
Byron Ling (Canaan) - Analyzing Teams, Why It Might Be Harder to Raise a Series A vs. Seed during COVID, and Why Distribution is as Important as Product
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May 21, 2020 |
Claire Fauquier (Highland Capital Partners) - Purchase Behaviors of SMBs, Stretching Consumer and Sourcing at the Series A
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May 18, 2020 |
Anna Whiteman (Coefficient Capital) - Bold Marketing Using Non-Standardizing Channels, When a DNVB Should Think About Omnichannel, and Milestones for CPG Companies at Series A
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May 14, 2020 |
Adelle Archer (Eterneva) - From Ashes To Diamonds, A New Way To Honor Loved Ones and Experience Innovation
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May 11, 2020 |
Bonus: Sasha Strauss (Innovation Protocol) - Brand Strategy, Not Making Brand Too Personal, and Importance of Positioning
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May 07, 2020 |
Michael Duda (Bullish) - Why TAM Is Overrated, Empathize But Don't Listen, and DTC 3.0
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May 04, 2020 |
Joe Tonnos (Ketch Ventures & Mistral Equity Partners) - Cricket Protein, Tequila and Investing in Sustainability
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Apr 30, 2020 |
Bonus: Arie Abecassis (ICONYC Labs) - The Board of Directors
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Apr 27, 2020 |
Kate McAndrew (Bolt) - Distributed Teams, Fundraising Outside the Major Hubs, and Impact of COVID
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Bonus: Brian Wang (Dashing Leadership) - Why A Founder Might Need A Coach and a Conversation About Curiosity, Judgement and Culture
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Apr 20, 2020 |
Bonus - Zac Dearing: Paycheck Protection Program
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Apr 16, 2020 |
Rishi Garg (Mayfield) - Consumer Distrust, Curated Experiences, and What’s Next For Social Media
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Apr 13, 2020 |
David Goldberg (Corigin Ventures) - The Sharing Economy, Consumerization of Enterprise Software, and Distribution
|
Apr 09, 2020 |
Natalie Dillon (Maveron) - Subcultures, Sustainability, and The Differences Between Gen Z & and Millennials
|
Apr 06, 2020 |
Kiva Dickinson (Selva Ventures) - Best Time To Start A Brand, Why First Mover is So Important in CPG, and Why VCs are Scared of Getting it Wrong
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Apr 02, 2020 |
Madeline Keulen (Victress Capital) - Knowing Your Why, Analyzing Contrasting Trends, and Building Brands
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Mar 30, 2020 |
Logan Langberg (Imaginary Ventures) - DTC 2.0, Multiple Channels of Distribution, and Paid vs. Organic Growth
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Mar 26, 2020 |
Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) - The State of Seed Investing, The Early Stage Ecosystem, and Why Consumer Has Been Out Of Favor with VCs
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Mar 23, 2020 |
Bonus - Coronavirus: Feat. Robert Gelb (HeySummit) - How early stage investors are thinking about the current landscape?
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Mar 20, 2020 |
Laura Chau (Canaan) - The Five Pillars of Social Media, Moving Towards Status and the Power of Grit
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Mar 16, 2020 |
Ethan Austin (Techstars) - Punched in the Face with a Problem, Analyzing Teams and EQ
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Mar 05, 2020 |
Lee Hower (NextView Ventures) - Making Good Decisions Fast, Going With Your Gut and Why Trust at the Early Stages Is Vital
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Mar 02, 2020 |
Bonus - Matt Hirst (West): Brand and Marketing - What is Brand?, How to Hire at the Early Stages, and Trusting Your Gut vs. Data Driven
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Feb 27, 2020 |
Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund) - Investing When There’s No Traction and How To Mitigate Risk When Founding
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Feb 24, 2020 |
Jason Shuman (Primary Ventures) - Payback Period, Market Timing, and The Importance of Distribution
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Feb 20, 2020 |
Kate Boyle (Banjo Robinson) - Expanding Into Different Countries, Her Unfair Advantage, and Storytelling
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Feb 18, 2020 |
Gautam Gupta (M13) - The Thin Line Between Success and Failure, Board Construction, and Why He Offers Learnings, Not Advice
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Feb 13, 2020 |
Tim Katt (TACK Ventures) - How Tech is Disrupting Sports, Media and Advice for Founders in Secondary Markets
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Feb 10, 2020 |
Sophie Bakalar (fable & Collaborative Fund) - What is Market Expertise?, Conscious Consumerism, and How She Sensed An Opportunity
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Feb 06, 2020 |
Sumeet Shah (Swiftarc Ventures) - 4th Generation of Retail, Periscope Founders and What is Wrong in VC
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Feb 03, 2020 |
Jason Stoffer (Maveron) - Mediocre Markets, Early Traction, and Knowing Your Weaknesses
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Jan 30, 2020 |
Jordan Nof (Tusk VP) - Regulated Industries, The Importance of Timing, and Good Growth vs. Bad Growth
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Jan 27, 2020 |
Eamonn Carey (Techstars) - Consumer Trends in Europe, Expanding to New Markets, and The Three Most Important Words in the English Language
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Jan 23, 2020 |
Greg Bettinelli (Upfront Ventures) - #longla, Why Los Angeles Has Become a Hub of Consumer Innovation, and finding Product-Market Fit & Founder-Market Fit
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Jan 21, 2020 |
Paul Martino (Bullpen Capital) - What it Means to be a Contrarian Investor, The Arbitrage Opportunity at Post Seed, and Founders That Have Chips On Their Shoulders
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Jan 16, 2020 |
Anna Barber (Techstars) - What makes the Los Angeles Tech Ecosystem So Special, Breakdown of Techstars Accelerator Program, Tips on How to Reach Out to Investors
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Jan 13, 2020 |
Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures) - How to Evaluate Online Marketplaces, Why This is a Contrarian time to Invest in Consumer
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Jan 09, 2020 |
Leah Solivan (Fuel Capital) - The Importance of Passion, When a Company Should Have Product-Market Fit, and What Founders Should Pay Attention To In Their Pitch Decks
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Jan 06, 2020 |
Will McClelland (Elizabeth Street) - The Changing of Retail on High Streets, How to Analyze Competitive Advantages, ROI on Consumer Companies
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Dec 19, 2019 |
Mike Duboe (Greylock) - Learnings as Head of Growth at Stitch Fix & Tilt, The Importance of Saying No, and Analyzing Health of Acquisition
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Dec 16, 2019 |
David Wu (Maveron) - The Reinvention of Entertainment, The Founder Scorecard, and the Lessons Learned From Building a Houseboat and Cruising Down the Mississippi
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Dec 12, 2019 |
Rick Heitzmann (FirstMark Capital) - The Future of Marketplaces, Why investing in B2C companies is different to B2B companies, Investing in Secondary and Tertiary Markets
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Susan Lyne (BBG Ventures) - Why Investing in Women Founders is Still an Untapped Market
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Dec 05, 2019 |
Caitlin Strandberg (Lerer Hippeau) - How To Identify Consumer Pain Points, The D2C Investment Landscape, and The New York Ecosystem
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Dec 02, 2019 |
Ajay Kamat (Pear VC) - Clarity of Thought, Future of Audio, and Today's Investing Landscape
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Nov 26, 2019 |
Amit Mukherjee (NEA) - The Gen Z Consumer, How to Evaluate Two Different Competing Companies
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Nov 19, 2019 |
Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - Future of Media, Investing in Women, and Thinking Big
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Nov 12, 2019 |
Hayden Williams (BrandProject) - Empathy, Investing in Smoothies, and the Fickle Consumer
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Jay Kapoor (Launch Capital) - Persistence, Building Trust & Finding Founder-Market Fit
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Oct 30, 2019 |
0. Why The Consumer VC
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Oct 22, 2019 |