Latest Give first Podcast Episodes
Misti Cain on how to connect during COVID-19
Give First - August 13, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMisti Cain speaks with David Cohen about her journey from a digital marketing strategist to Techstars Anywhere Accelerator mentor, founder of mentorship platform Whyzze, and host of “Werrrk!,” a business reality show. She explains her best tactics for building important relationships in our chal...
Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship with Dream Tank
Give First - August 05, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsCo-host David Cohen and guest Heidi Cuppari discuss how she co-founded Dream Tank to truly tap into the radical imagination of children. What started as an experiment five years ago is now a place in which kids, such as guest Amelia Rose Battle, can help make the world a better place. Listen as...
Brad Feld and the mentor who changed his life
Give First - July 24, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this episode, Brad Feld is joined by Techstars’ Chief Revenue Officer Frank Alfano and past Chief Innovation Officer Jenny Lawton to talk with their mentor – Len Fassler. They each share their unique experiences meeting Len some thirty years ago, the ups and downs of working together and the ...
Phillip McKernan on the importance of reinventing yourself
Give First - February 06, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsPhillip McKernan believes life is too short to have regrets. As a life coach, he is dedicated to helping others rediscover themselves, tap into their greatest gifts and create a positive impact on the world.
Philip McKernan on the importance of reinventing yourself
Give First - February 06, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsPhilip McKernan talks with David Cohen about how to find your purpose in life and his work with entrepreneurs. Through his coaching, he encourages people to take the risk they would only take if they were dying tomorrow. Listen as Philip and David discuss the importance of reinventing yourself...
David & Brad on what they’ve learned from 20 episodes of the Give First podcast
Give First - January 21, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBack in June 2019, David Cohen and Brad Feld looked back at their first six episodes of the Give First podcast, and decided that while they were pretty pleased, they’d probably need to do about 20-30 to really hit their stride. Seven months later, they’ve passed number 20, so they’re takin...
Live from CES: SparkCharge Founder/CEO Joshua Aviv on the unique challenges (and opportunities) of student entrepreneurship
Give First - January 09, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsTechstars VP of Network John Hill sat down with SparkCharge Founder and CEO Joshua Aviv live from the floor of Eureka Park. Josh talks about how he started SparkCharge at Syracuse University, the life-changing impact of the Blackstone Launchpad program, and the unique challenges and opportuniti...
Live from CES: SparkCharge Founder/CEO Joshua Aviv on the unique challenges (and opportunities) of student entrepreneurship
Give First - January 09, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSparkCharge Founder and CEO Joshua Aviv shares his remarkable journey live from CES 2020. Listen for insights about how he turned an idea from an econ class at Syracuse University into a thriving startup.
Live from CES: Damon Motorcycles Co-founder and CTO Dominique Kwong on the power of business and engineering partnerships and the emotional journey behind building a company
Give First - January 09, 2020 16:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsDamon Motorcycles Co-founder and CTO (and Techstars Mobility alum) Dominique Kwong talks with Techstars VP of Network John Hill about the unstoppable power of business and engineering partnerships, launching at CES, and the emotions behind building a company.
Live from CES: Damon Motorcycles Co-founder and CTO Dominique Kwong on the power of business and engineering partnerships and the emotional journey behind building a company
Give First - January 09, 2020 16:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsDamon Motorcycles Co-founder and CTO (and Techstars Mobility alum) Dominique Kwong talks with Techstars VP of Network John Hill about the unstoppable power of business and engineering partnerships, launching at CES, and the emotions behind building a company. In this wide-ranging and emotiona...
Live from CES: Event Hub CEO and Co-founder Michael Bleau on the power of live events
Give First - January 08, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsEureka Park at CES is one of the most influential startup events in the world. Techstars VP of Network John Hill sat down with Event Hub CEO and Co-founder Michael Bleau live from the floor of Eureka Park. They dug in to Michael’s founder journey, his Techstars Anywhere experience, his take on ...
Live from CES: Event Hub CEO and Co-founder Michael Bleau on the power of live events
Give First - January 08, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsEvent Hub CEO and Co-founder Michael Bleau shares his startup experience live from CES 2020. Listen for insights about how Event Hub is tapping technology to help companies make meaningful real-life connections.
Live Episode: Josh Hix on the introverted CEO
Give First - December 12, 2019 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsPlated Co-founder Josh Hix knows about leading a growing team. He remembers taking the company through Techstars New York City in 2013, coming into the program with about seven people, and leaving with closer to 37. The company was up to 1300 employees by the time it sold to Albertsons for a...
Rajat Bhargava on Giving First for a B2B company
Give First - November 05, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsRajat Bhargava , CEO of JumpCloud, has started a lot of companies—the first, NetGenesis, while he was still a student at MIT. And his friendship with Give First co-host Brad Feld goes right back to that initial foray into entrepreneurship. Rajat just keeps starting companies, and Giving First...
Elizabeth Kraus on funding women-led companies
Give First - October 23, 2019 21:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMergeLane, a VC fund that invests in startups and venture funds with at least one female leader, has an unusual aspiration, written in bold on its website: “We want to make MergeLane obsolete.” As co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of MergeLane, Elizabeth Kraus looks forward to a futur...
Jason Mendelson on demystifying venture deals
Give First - October 09, 2019 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJason Mendelson , co-founder of Foundry Group, can explain what matters in negotiations between entrepreneurs and VCs in just two words: Control and Economics. It takes enormous expertise to make something complicated really simple, and these bare two words speak to Jason’s profound understan...
Janet Bannister on human-centered investing
Give First - September 24, 2019 19:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsToday, Janet Bannister is a Partner at Real Ventures, but when Founding Partners John Stokes and Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer first approached her about joining to give the firm a presence in Toronto, Janet was nonplussed. “Why would I go into Venture Capital?” she asked. “Isn’t Venture Capital ...
Heidi Roizen on meaningful work & relationships
Give First - September 12, 2019 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHeidi Roizen has called herself a recovering entrepreneur. Wendy Lea has called Heidi “the epitome of Give First.” Both of these are true, and go a long way toward describing the deeply humane perspective on the role of venture capital that Heidi brings to her current role as a partner at ...
Marc Nager & Dave Mayer on building rural startup communities
Give First - September 03, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsToo many people believe that you have to be in Silicon Valley—or some similarly hyped tech-obsessed locale—to be an entrepreneur. Techstars knows this isn’t true: successful entrepreneurship can happen anywhere. Marc Nager and Dave Mayer are living proof. Marc is the Co-founder of Startup We...
Bonus Episode Alert: Do More Faster, 2nd edition
Give First - August 20, 2019 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBack in 2010, David Cohen and Brad Feld distilled their knowledge about how to #domorefaster into a book, fleshed out with many, many stories from startup founders, investors, and other players in the startup ecosystem. They called it Do More Faster , and over the past nine years the book has...
Harry Stebbings on committing to building a network & giving first
Give First - August 13, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsStride.VC founder Harry Stebbings is probably best known for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC , the world's largest media asset in venture, with over 5 million downloads per month. He’s talked with amazing Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs and made over 2,800 shows. When he was 13, ...
John China on whether you can give too much
Give First - July 31, 2019 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn over 23 years at Silicon Valley Bank, John China has made it his mission to make connections between entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and more. Many, many entrepreneurs at Techstars and beyond have benefitted from his Give First perspective on working with startups: that you “give, giv...
Sherri Hammons on staying humble and staying strong
Give First - July 23, 2019 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsToday, Sherri Hammons is CTO of The Nature Conservancy, but as she admits, “I took the nontraditional path to CTO land.” This path included eight years as a professional singer before she went back to college and got a degree in software engineering—and went on to work for companies big and smal...
Rebecca Lovell on career ‘nudges,’ karaoke, & how to be an ally
Give First - July 16, 2019 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsRebecca Lovell plays, as Brad Feld says, “a very important role in the center of gravity for the Seattle startup community.” Currently Director at Create33, a resource center for tech entrepreneurs, Rebecca teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Washington and has held a number of roles...
David & Brad reflect on the first six episodes of the Give First podcast
Give First - June 26, 2019 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWith six full episodes of the Give First podcast under their belts, David Cohen and Brad Feld reflect on their recent interviews and duty as podcast hosts. They also have nothing but praise for guests so far: Wendy Lea , Paul Berberian , Troy Henikoff , Mary Grove , T.A. McCann , ...
Kesha Cash on impact investing—and how mentorship got her there
Give First - June 18, 2019 12:50 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsKesha Cash founded Impact America Fund in 2013 with a goal of investing in software and tech enabled companies that have a positive benefit on underserved communities in America. In 2018, she was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business . She went to Columbia Busines...
T.A. McCann on how sailing in the America’s Cup is like running a startup
Give First - June 11, 2019 12:50 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsDavid Cohen was super excited when he realized that T.A. McCann —founder and CEO of Senosis (acquired by Google), Gist (acquired by Blackberry) and Rival IQ, a leader in marketing analytics, as well as Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs—was the same guy he was reading about in The Pro...
Mary Grove on the origins of Google for Startups & Startup Weekend
Give First - June 04, 2019 12:55 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMary Grove is passionate about community-driven change, and this theme has guided her entire career. She joined Google when it had only 2,000 employees, and by the time she left it was up to around 75,000. Over 14 years, she went from working on the IPO deal team to starting Google for Startups....
Troy Henikoff on how #GiveFirst grew the Chicago startup ecosystem
Give First - May 28, 2019 12:50 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHow does a startup ecosystem grow? #GiveFirst is one essential element. Troy Henikoff, Managing Director of MATH Ventures and Co-founder of Excelerate Labs, which became Techstars Chicago, remembers the early days of Chicago’s startup ecosystem, and how #GiveFirst helped it grow. One of the ...
Paul Berberian on the “addictive” nature of mentoring
Give First - May 21, 2019 12:50 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHave you ever been mobbed in Times Square, like a rock star? Paul Berberian, CEO of Sphero, the company that makes BB8, at one time the number one toy in the world, has. Paul talks about how mentoring and Give First were essential to Sphero getting the BB8 gig. He loves mentoring as well, and...
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