Playing With Unicorns
Playing with unicorns is a new weekly show on startups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital.
I cover everything I learned as an entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist during the last 22 years, focusing on everything I wished I knew when I first got started as a tech entrepreneur.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#10 Validating Your Startup Idea
Last week we covered how to come up with great startup ideas. This week I present how to evaluate if the idea is worth pursuing. I detail which hypothesis you need to validate and how to go about pro…
#9 Coming Up with a Startup Idea
Many aspiring entrepreneurs struggle to come with compelling startup ideas.
I discuss how to quickly determine whether the idea is worth pursuing further. I also share tips and tricks on ideation and…
#8 The Business Of Venture Capital
Most entrepreneurs merely see venture capitalists as a source of capital without understanding how venture capitalists operate. Jeff Weinstein who co-heads investing at FJ Labs, and our resident vent…
#7 FJ Labs' Startup Studio Model
Last week we covered whether first time founders should build a company on their own or join an accelerator or a venture studio. As a follow-up, I wanted to present the specifics of the FJ Labs start…
#6 DIY vs Accelerator vs Studio
This week we cover whether first time founders should build a company on their own or join an accelerator or a venture studio. Nancy Dong (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancydong/), our first ever gues…
#5 Ask Me Anything
Given that I was in Lake Placid looking at the foliage change without my multi-screen setup, I tried a “Ask Me Anything” session for the week. It was a resounding success with very varied questions. …
#4 FJ Labs’ Investment Thesis
In the third episode, I described how VCs evaluate startups by using a combination of the team, business, deal terms and whether the idea fits with their thesis to decide whether to invest or not. In…
#3 How VCs Evaluate Startups
In the first episode I covered how and when to fundraise. In this episode, I cover how venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate you once you are in front of them the help you refine your approach and pitch…
#2 Build a MVP for less than $20k
I start by covering the theoretical do’s and don’ts of building a minimum viable product (MVP) before giving an in depth and specific example of how I would go about building a mobile golf applicatio…
#1 Fundraising: Everything there is to know in terms of fundraising for venture backed startups
Given that it's episode 1, I start by explaining why I am creating this podcast before covering everything there is to know in terms of fundraising for venture backed startups
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