Distilling Venture Capital
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHost Bill Griesinger brings an informed, unbiased and unique historical perspective to the venture capital and high-tech world. Drawing on over 20 years in venture finance, working with tech companies and venture capitalists, he offers an unfiltered and transparent view of the venture capital & high-tech universe.
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Nigel Grierson on 3 Fatal Mistakes Your Venture Backed Start-up Must Avoid - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
March 02, 2015 03:42 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MBNigel Grierson has been investing in start-ups for quite awhile, first by launching Intel Capital Europe and then as co-founder of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. To say he's learned a few things about venture capital success from failure is an understatement. In this episode he shares three of those lessons that apply to any start-up. My Guest Nigel Grierson co-founded the Doughty Hanson Technology Fund in 2000 and currently serves as co-Managing Director. His specific areas of expe...
Help Wanted: Jeanette Cajide on Finding the Right Team and Investors - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
February 15, 2015 12:27 - 39 minutes - 27.9 MBNobody was better prepared for leading a start-up than Jeanette Cajide. She had a solid academic foundations in public relations, communications, business and finance. She'd done technology consulting and turn around management. When a friend pulled her into launching a start-up app company, she was primed and ready. Listen in as Jeanette shares the struggles of getting Blurtt off the ground, pivoting and most importantly get the right people on board. My Guest Jeanette Cajide current...
Herding Cats: Rick Faulk on Merging Start-ups - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
November 14, 2014 03:06 - 28 minutes - 20.8 MBRick Faulk knew what it took to ramp sales for a venture backed software company. He'd done exactly that for WebEx prior to its sale to Cisco. Then he was asked to do the same thing as co-CEO for three merged social software companies. Listen in as Rick shares what he learned from this cat rodeo about M&A diligence, merging corporate cultures and decisive leadership. My Guest Rick Faulk has more than 30 years of experience in executive management, sales and marketing in the software indus...
Learn To Take A Punch: Barry Weinbaum on Entrepreneurial Toughness - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
October 25, 2014 22:18 - 45 minutes - 32 MBEntrepreneurship is not for wimps. It's a good thing Barry Weinbaum learned how to take a punch when he was a kid growing up in the Bronx. He got socked by a massive telecom market meltdown, an over-sized, cash burning lab and factory, a founder law suit and a divided board. Oh yeah, and he had a few competitors as well. Barry lived to fight another day, so listen in to hear the valuable lessons he learned. My Guest Barry Weinbaum became a serial entrepreneur after a 20+ year career at L...
Two Tours of Duty: Kevin Naughton on Returning To A Troubled Start-up - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
October 25, 2014 22:14 - 34 minutes - 24.3 MBKevin Naughton had done the start-up thing and moved on. Then came the call: "We're in trouble. Can you come back and help us sell the company?" Kevin answered the call and returned for a second tour of duty at GTess, a Dallas based healthcare claims processing start-up. Listen in as Kevin explains what he learned about hiring too fast, customer consolidation, following industry norms down the wrong road and flying blind without proper financial and business metrics. My Guest An entrep...
Waiting For Uncle Sam: Mark Redlus on Gov’t Created Markets & Capital to Pivot - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
October 06, 2014 02:04 - 30 minutes - 22.2 MBIt was a matter of when, not if. Global forces were pushing Mark Redlus' company ImageTree towards a huge opportunity. ImageTree's technology would be the gold standard for validating forest assets being used for carbon emissions off sets. Mark and his venture capital backers had already pivoted once. Listen in and find out what prevented them from pivoting a second time to save their company. My Guest Coming out of the Univ. of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a BS in Management, Ma...
Where’s The Exit? Dennis Clerke on Timing Exits & Investor Alignment - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
September 23, 2014 11:30 - 42 minutes - 30.4 MBWhen should you sell your venture capital backed start-up? Entrepreneur Dennis Clerke joins me to discuss the start-up CEO's critical task of managing a company's path to an exit. Dennis discusses how to monitor your company's market environment and internal investor dynamics, so that you can exit at the optimal time. We also chat about promoting robust team debate while avoiding cancerous team dysfunction. My Guest As President of Monetization Dennis leads the content-monetization busi...
Fail Successfully – A Manifesto - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
September 16, 2014 11:18 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBWhat is The Venture Capital Coroner’s Report? Why should you listen to it? And who is Mark W King? (and why does he use his middle initial?) Great questions that I answer in Episode Zero, The Prologue. After 17 years in the venture capital industry, I felt it was time for a public forum to discuss what we’ve learned about entrepreneurship, start-ups, venture capital and business in general from the huge number of companies that have not ended in success. In this prologue I explain my back...