Ranked #1

How Do Venture Capitalists Really Make Money?
How Do Venture Capitalists Really Make Money?
If you really want to understand a business figure out how it makes money. That's true for every kind of business. It's... Read more
1 Jan 2017
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18mins
Ranked #2

When Should You Pivot? Gard Mayer On Making Critical Decisions - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
When Should You Pivot? Gard Mayer On Making Critical Decisions - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Gard Mayer's path as an entrepreneur has more twists & turns than a back road through the mountains. In this venture... Read more
14 May 2015
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38mins
Ranked #3

Help Wanted: Jeanette Cajide on Finding the Right Team and Investors - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Help Wanted: Jeanette Cajide on Finding the Right Team and Investors - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Nobody was better prepared for leading a start-up than Jeanette Cajide. She had a solid academic foundations in public ... Read more
15 Feb 2015
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39mins
Ranked #4

Did The Check Clear? Peter Schlegel on Needing Multiple Plan B’s - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Did The Check Clear? Peter Schlegel on Needing Multiple Plan B’s - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Peter Vilsholm Therkildsen Schlegel had a path. Get seed capital. Launch start-up. Join incubator. Finish program. Get c... Read more
27 Apr 2015
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36mins
Ranked #5

Jeff Novich On What Made His Start-up Fail At Launch - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Jeff Novich On What Made His Start-up Fail At Launch - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
As a serial entrepreneur Jeff Novich could spot a problem that meant opportunity. His Dad had one of those problems in ... Read more
15 Jul 2015
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41mins
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Shut-up and Listen! Rachel Chalmers Explains the Biggest Mistake You Can Make - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Shut-up and Listen! Rachel Chalmers Explains the Biggest Mistake You Can Make - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Rachel Chalmers knows your Achilles heel. After two plus decades sitting in Silicon Valley's front row watching start-up... Read more
9 Apr 2015
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20mins
Ranked #7

Herding Cats: Rick Faulk on Merging Start-ups - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Herding Cats: Rick Faulk on Merging Start-ups - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Rick Faulk knew what it took to ramp sales for a venture backed software company. He'd done exactly that for WebEx prior... Read more
14 Nov 2014
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28mins
Ranked #8

Co-founders, Paparazzi & Family...Oh My! Nikki Durkin on Start-up Relationships - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Co-founders, Paparazzi & Family...Oh My! Nikki Durkin on Start-up Relationships - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
What were you doing when you were 18? Nikki Durkin was finding co-founders, doing the Y-Combinator thing, raising ventur... Read more
11 Jun 2015
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30mins
Ranked #9

Learn To Take A Punch: Barry Weinbaum on Entrepreneurial Toughness - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Learn To Take A Punch: Barry Weinbaum on Entrepreneurial Toughness - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Entrepreneurship is not for wimps. It's a good thing Barry Weinbaum learned how to take a punch when he was a kid growin... Read more
25 Oct 2014
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45mins
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Nigel Grierson on 3 Fatal Mistakes Your Venture Backed Start-up Must Avoid - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Nigel Grierson on 3 Fatal Mistakes Your Venture Backed Start-up Must Avoid - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Nigel Grierson has been investing in start-ups for quite awhile, first by launching Intel Capital Europe and then as co-... Read more
2 Mar 2015
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31mins
Ranked #11

Not So Fast! Nag Palavalli on the Perils of Easy Capital Raising - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Not So Fast! Nag Palavalli on the Perils of Easy Capital Raising - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Can you raise venture capital too easily? Nagarjun "Nag" Palavalli, my guest on this episode, thinks you can. Nag's jou... Read more
26 Mar 2015
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29mins
Ranked #12

Waiting For Uncle Sam: Mark Redlus on Gov’t Created Markets & Capital to Pivot - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Waiting For Uncle Sam: Mark Redlus on Gov’t Created Markets & Capital to Pivot - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
It was a matter of when, not if. Global forces were pushing Mark Redlus' company ImageTree towards a huge opportunity. ... Read more
6 Oct 2014
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30mins
Ranked #13

Two Tours of Duty: Kevin Naughton on Returning To A Troubled Start-up - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Two Tours of Duty: Kevin Naughton on Returning To A Troubled Start-up - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Kevin Naughton had done the start-up thing and moved on. Then came the call: "We're in trouble. Can you come back and h... Read more
25 Oct 2014
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34mins
Ranked #14

Know When To Fold ‘Em - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
Know When To Fold ‘Em - The Venture Capital Coroner's Report
My interviews with venture capital's most successful failures have proven that the sage old advice from Kenny Rogers sti... Read more
3 Oct 2015
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6mins
Ranked #15

Episode 001 - FOCUS ON FINTECH Series: Cryptocurrency Mining Explained - Aurum Capital Ventures (with John Paul Baric, Founder & CEO)
Episode 001 - FOCUS ON FINTECH Series: Cryptocurrency Mining Explained - Aurum Capital Ventures (with John Paul Baric, Founder & CEO)
Introduction Welcome to Distilling Venture Capital. I am your host, Bill Griesinger Distilling VC is a visionary podca... Read more
27 May 2020
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46mins