The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
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328. Why the Pacific Northwest Will Win Big, Tapping the Enterprise Talent Pool, and Investing in Apps over Infrastructure (Cameron Borumand)
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04/11/22 • 32 min
Cameron Borumand of FUSE joins Nick to discuss Why the Pacific Northwest Will Win Big, Tapping the Enterprise Talent Pool, and Investing in Apps over Infrastructure. In this episode we cover:
- The Story of FUSE
- Spinouts in VC
- Attracting & Building Talent Networks
- Why Cameron avoids the Zoom Pitch
- Enterprise Apps v. Infrastructure
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Investor Stories 179: Post Mortems (Bonatsos, Koh, Adeeb, Suster)
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02/11/21 • 12 min
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
- Niko Bonatsos
- Melody Koh
- Ramy Adeeb
- Mark Suster
Each investor discusses a portfolio company that did not survive and why it was that they failed.
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268. Breaking the Founder Stereotype, Mastering Conviction Over Zoom, & the Contrast between European and American Entrepreneurs (Maren Bannon)
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02/08/21 • 29 min
Maren Bannon of January Ventures joins Nick to discuss Breaking the Founder Stereotype, Mastering Conviction Over Zoom, & the Contrast between European and American Entrepreneurs. In this episode, we cover:
- Walk us through your background and path to VC
- What’s the thesis at January Ventures?
- How are you and your team at January Ventures making tech more of an equal opportunity?
- What is your approach to portfolio construction in this fund and how will that evolve in the future?
- What's one thing you know now that you wish you knew prior to raising the fund?
- You take meetings with founders VERY early — no warm intro, no pitch deck, or no revenue required to pitch to January Ventures. How do you evaluate the potential this early?
- How do you filter all of the opportunities -- what is your pre-filter process?
- How have you changed your work/process at January post COVID?
- What is your experience like moving from SF to Europe and what is your view of the European tech ecosystem?
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318. Founding the 1st VC Index Fund, Rethinking the Future of Capital Deployment, and Advice for Emerging Managers (Marcelino Pantoja)
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01/31/22 • 25 min
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333. Mexico's New Tech Mafia, Winning Copycat Strategies, and the Future of Fintech in LatAm (Hernán Fernández)
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05/16/22 • 44 min
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Investor Stories 236: Lessons Learned (Mead, Suissa, Foxe Blader)
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03/24/22 • 7 min
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Winter Mead, Yanev Suissa, and Ruth Foxe Blader.
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Investor Stories 335: Why I Passed (Schwerin, Keidan, Beller)
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02/15/24 • 5 min
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
- Jules Schwerin
- Jon Keidan
- Morgan Beller
Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.
The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
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402. Are Software Businesses Defensible? What is the S curve and How to Time it, and Lessons from Investing in Snowflake, Databricks, and Confluent (Sebastian Duesterhoeft)
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09/25/23 • 54 min
Sebastian Duesterhoeft of Lightspeed Venture Partners joins Nate to discuss Are Software Businesses Defensible? What is the S curve and How to Time it, and Lessons from Investing in Snowflake, Databricks, and Confluent. In this episode we cover:
- Investing in a Challenging Market with a Growth Investor
- AI Technology, Its Impact & Potential to Disrupt Industries and Create New Opportunities
- Investment Strategies and Price Dynamics in the Startup Space
- Investing in Enterprise Software Companies, Including S-Curve Analysis
- Market Size and Potential for a New Endpoint Security Player
- Determining the Size of the Queue for Cloud Security and Software Development
- Market Sizing, Vertical SAAS, and Software Margins
- Investing, Brand, and Distribution in the Tech Industry
Guest Links:
The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social.
You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter.
Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we’ll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox!
Investor Stories 26: My Investing Strategy (Davis, Carter, Struhl)
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
12/18/15 • 11 min
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet,
the following investors are featured:
- Davis
- Carter
- Struhl
Each investor describes their investment thesis and
how they evaluate startups for investment.
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143. Beacon: Modernizing the VC Firm, Part 2 (Chris Farmer)
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
10/14/17 • 33 min
Today we publish part two of the interview with Chris Farmer of Signal Fire Ventures. In this segment we address:
- Why he's using Beacon to make VC investments when their are numerous other applications that may have more economic value
- How he's created an engaged, active advisor network that are also LPs in the fund
- What characteristics the best advisors share
- Chris' thoughts on the surge in micros VCs and how that has impacted the asset class
- Chris' advice for founders raising initial capital
- Wrap-up of Key Takeaways & a Tip of the Week
Guest Links:
- Signal Fire Ventures
- Chris on Twitter
- Signal Fire on Twitter
- Techcrunch Article: Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry
- Part 1 of the interview w/ Chris
Key Takeaways:
1- Deconstructing Beacon Beacon is a connected platform that starts w/ sourcing but also does monitoring, context, diligence, syndication and most importanty, per Chris, portfolio support. It's a data platform that looks like a Bloomberg terminal for the startup industry. They started building it seven years ago and they employ a full-blown engineering team of data scientists and tech engineers. Beacon tracks a vast array of data on 6M different companies. And Chris started with first principles, asking "what are the KPIs that the management teams of these companies are measuring?"... those are the same elements we should measure with Beacon. It analyzes items including customer behavior, frequency, engagement, CLV, consumer transactions, financial flows, quality of those flows, news sentiment and also team construction and quality, just to name a few. And signal fire's platform isn't just for the investors. There is a UI for advisors and most importantly founders as well. Founders can utilize heir robust SaaS recruiting platform to address the key need of early stage companies... recruiting top talent. With Beacon, Signal Fire has set out to tech enable the entire value chain of a venture firm from end-to-end. Early indications from folks in my network are that it's an impressive platform indeed. 2- The Prepared Mind Signal Fire did not coin the concept of "the prepared mind" but Chris does follow it. The approach that came out of Accel has an emphasis on heavy research on existing domains. The creation of market maps that help visualize the landscape and reveal opportunities. In a previous episode, David Cowan discussed his approach to the Space vertical that leverages this methodology. And in Chris implementation, he is constantly refining the maps. He meets with LP experts and founders to go much deeper and broader than they could do w/ data alone. The result is that Signal Fire is often much less bullish on the en vogue sectors and vice-a-versa. Their investment in pizza making robot company, Zume, certainly illustrates their fresh perspective on an oft-ignored industry. 3- The Common Thread of Success I asked Chris for a common thread that he's noticed across successful startups. And I really enjoyed his response. The common thread in winners are those companies that are doing things full-stack. They are creating an end-to-end solution that is vertically integrated. Where a company can be it's own customer in order to provide a better solution for the end consumer. I discussed this concept w/ Charles Hudson in a previous episode. We talked about finding the place within the vertical supply stack that enforces discipline on the chain and drives the most value. Chris point was compelling in that he looks for startups that own the chain, not just a part of it. Tip of the Week: Tail Wags Dog -- The Affinity InvestorTo listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes.
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The first episode of The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified was released on May 29, 2014.
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