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The Sure Shot Entrepreneur

Successful entrepreneurs begin with the support of a few #earlybelievers. Gopi Rangan, founding partner at Sure Ventures, interviews venture capital investors in the Silicon Valley and beyond. Guests share insider stories on how they invest in early stage startups. Do you want to learn from real-life challenges, inspiring missions and important decisions by CEOs, founders, VCs, angels, and advisors? Listen to https://podcast.sure.ventures.

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Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
29 minutes
Episodes
173
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Say what your company does in 30 seconds

Say what your company does in 30 seconds

Sunil Nagaraj is the founder and managing partner at Ubiquity ventures, a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in smart hardware and machine intelligence startups. Sunil …

00:33:37  |   Tue 13 Jul 2021
Convert investors from non-believers to believers

Convert investors from non-believers to believers

Mika Salmi is a managing partner at the European venture capital firm Lakestar. He has been a serial entrepreneur, a successful angel investor, and now a venture capital investor. Mika invests in ear…

00:31:57  |   Tue 06 Jul 2021
Be persuasive to convince investors, customers and employees

Be persuasive to convince investors, customers and employees

Hans Morris is the founder and managing partner at NYCA Partners, a fintech focused venture capital firm in New York and Silicon Valley. As one of the early fintech leaders, Hans had a successful 27-…

00:29:25  |   Tue 29 Jun 2021
Start with your childhood story not your resume

Start with your childhood story not your resume

Arjan Schutte is the founder and managing partner at Core Innovation Capital, a venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build disruptive, high-growth FinTech businesses. Arjan shares insights o…

00:32:40  |   Tue 22 Jun 2021
Great entrepreneurs are students of venture capital

Great entrepreneurs are students of venture capital

Kate Beardsley is a founding partner at Hannah Grey, a Denver-based venture capital firm that focuses on the intersection of technology and human behavior. She narrates her in-depth experience on the…

00:28:26  |   Tue 15 Jun 2021
Get everyone on the investment team excited about your business

Get everyone on the investment team excited about your business

Ashley Paston is a Principal at New York-based Bain Capital Ventures and focuses on FinTech. She looks for founders who can zoom in and out of a pain point, offer a unique solution, and explain how t…

00:29:34  |   Tue 08 Jun 2021
Show empathy for your customers

Show empathy for your customers

Jocelyn Goldfein is a managing director at Zetta Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in AI-first startups. Jocelyn led engineering teams while at Facebook and V…

00:36:34  |   Tue 01 Jun 2021
Foresee future opportunities from today’s innovations

Foresee future opportunities from today’s innovations

Aashay Sanghvi is an investor at Haystack, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and seed software and technology investments. Aashay got into venture capital very earl…

00:24:01  |   Tue 25 May 2021
Succeed from your unique starting point

Succeed from your unique starting point

Ali Tamaseb is a partner at Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs using deep tech. He shares insightful findings of his 4-year l…

00:33:04  |   Tue 18 May 2021
Say “Yes” more often

Say “Yes” more often

Jason Best is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Vectr Fintech Partners (VFP), a globally-focused early stage fintech venture capital firm. He shares profound real-life experiences showing how ne…

00:28:40  |   Tue 11 May 2021
Reflect, learn and grow

Reflect, learn and grow

Julian Teicke is the founder and CEO of Berlin-based Wefox, the first 100% digital European insurance company. He shares insightful experiences about starting early as an e-commerce entrepreneur in S…

00:30:54  |   Tue 04 May 2021
Don’t be shy. Good investors like to get their hands dirty.

Don’t be shy. Good investors like to get their hands dirty.

Andrew Gluck is a General Partner at irrvrntVC, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on direct-to-customer, AdTech, and NextGen Commerce. Andrew strongly believes in founder-market fit and i…

00:25:39  |   Tue 27 Apr 2021
Win big in niche markets

Win big in niche markets

Phil Boyer is a Partner at Crosslink Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on enterprise applications, infrastructure, vertical software, and frontier technology. As a passiona…

00:31:47  |   Tue 20 Apr 2021
Care for your neighbors

Care for your neighbors

Ken Singleton is a professor at Stanford University - Graduate School of Business. Through a glamorous 30-year career in academia, he has contributed significantly to development finance and economic…

00:37:31  |   Tue 13 Apr 2021
Turn venture blueprints into tangible, thriving futures

Turn venture blueprints into tangible, thriving futures

Eugene Zhang is a founding partner at TSVC, a Silicon Valley based early stage venture capital firm that focuses on emerging deep tech and FinTech startups. Eugene has invested in over 170 startups, …

00:25:54  |   Tue 06 Apr 2021
Everything is fintech

Everything is fintech

Jacob Gibson is the Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm investing in the future of Fintech. Before getting into investing, Jacob was co-founder a…

00:27:48  |   Tue 30 Mar 2021
Every day is recruiting day at a startup

Every day is recruiting day at a startup

Steven Lurie is the founder of Team Builder Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that helps founders build world-class teams. Drawing from decades of experience scaling teams at tech…

00:33:50  |   Tue 23 Mar 2021
Play the long-game to win in Silicon Valley

Play the long-game to win in Silicon Valley

Homan Yuen is a partner at Fusion Fund, an early-stage VC firm focused on investing in innovative companies with a technology barrier to their business models. He gives examples of hand-on support as…

00:30:19  |   Tue 16 Mar 2021
Be efficient. Don't be macho.

Be efficient. Don't be macho.

Swati Chaturvedi is the co-founder and CEO of Propel(x) - a marketplace that connects investors and experts with science & technology startups. Swati shares her unique experience at the rare intersec…

00:29:48  |   Tue 09 Mar 2021
Build agile solutions for traditional problems

Build agile solutions for traditional problems

Vivek Krishnamurthy is a venture capital investor at Commerce Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based VC capital firm focusing on investments in the e-commerce, FinTech and Insurance sectors. Vivek is parti…

00:31:28  |   Tue 02 Mar 2021
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