Welcome back to Venture Studio, and welcome back to our fantastic two-part interview with Naval Ravikant of AngelList.  If you missed part one, go check it out at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play.  

In part 1 of this interview, Dave and Naval talked about AngelList, syndicates and startup funding.  In part 2, things got quite a bit more philosophical.  In this interview, Naval and Dave cover power dynamics and haters in venture, the American political system - Trump, Bernie and Hilary - the disruption of the wealthy elite and, of course, South Park.

In this episode, Dave revers to this post by Naval called The American Spring: https://medium.com/the-mission/american-spring-d6a8320bf712#.k4ppdt9pd

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Ep 31 - Naval Ravikant - AngelList (2 of 2)

This week’s guest is the incomparable Brad Harrison, founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures.  Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies.

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During this experience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.

While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications and retired as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play on Android Devices.  Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Scout Ventures:
http://www.scoutventures.com/

Ep 39 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (1 of 2)

Part 2 with Brad Harrison of Scout Ventures 

Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies. Scout focuses on core business fundamentals and help with key areas of growth.

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www.scoutventures.com
www.mayorbrad.com

Ep 40 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (2 of 2)

Jessica Lawrence Quinn is the CEO of NY Tech Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting New York’s growing technology community, and the organizer of NY Tech Meetup, the world’s largest Meetup group. Prior to her work with NY Tech Alliance, Jessica was the CEO of Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Southern California, where she supported a community of 75 staff, 5,000 volunteers, and 15,000 girls. Jessica was one of only 15 women selected to participate in Seth Godin’s Female Entrepreneur MBA (FeMBA) in 2010. Jessica’s writing has been featured on the Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes.com, The Next Web, The Huffington Post and in a weekly column in The Press-Enterprise. She also speaks frequently on the tech sector, the future of work, and organizational development and culture at events such as PopTech, SXSW, and TEDx.

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Jessica’s Blog
https://jessicalawrencequinn.com/

NY Tech Alliance
https://nytech.org/

NY Tech Meetup + Bloomberg Women's Demo Night 2017:
https://nytech.org/monthly-meetup/ny-tech-meetup-bloomberg-women-s-demo-night-2017

April 2017 NY Tech Meetup and Afterparty:
https://nytech.org/monthly-meetup/april-2017-ny-tech-meetup-and-afterparty

Human Tech Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Human-Tech-Meetup/

Ep 41 - Jessica Lawrence Quinn - NY Tech Alliance

This week’s guest is Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart Ventures, an enterprise seed fund which focuses on infrastructure and SaaS startups.

All of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play.  Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Boldstart.vc

Twitter: https://twitter.com/edsim

Blog: Beyondvc.com

Newsletter: digest.beyondvc.com

Episode 24 with Eliot Durbin:
https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-24-eliot-durbin-boldstart-ventures

Ep 42 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (1 of 2)

This week is part 2 of our interview with Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart Ventures, an enterprise seed fund which focuses on infrastructure and SaaS startups.  Part 1 is here: https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-42-ed-sim-boldstart-ventures-1-of-2

All of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

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Boldstart.vc
Twitter: twitter.com/edsim

Newsletter:
digest.beyondvc.com

From Beyondvc.com: ENTERPRISE TECH IN 2017
http://www.beyondvc.com/2016/12/boldstart-in-2016-enterprise-tech-in-2017.html

Episode 24 with Eliot Durbin:
https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/Ep-24-eliot-durbin-boldstart-ventures

Episode 32 with Jonathan Lehr of Work-Bench:
https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-32-jon-lehr-work-bench

Ep 43 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (2 of 2)

This week's guest is Rafat Ali.  Rafat is the CEO/founder of Skift, the largest business intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data, and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry.

Previously, he was the founder of paidContent and ContentNext, now owned by UK’s Guardian News and Media. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter.

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Skift.com
Rafat.org
http://rafat.org/post/136289931946/how-we-got-off-the-addiction-of-venture-capital

Ep 44 - Rafat Ali - Skift

This week’s guest is Jason Cahill of McCune Capital.

A network design engineer by training, an experienced manager, an Army veteran who served with Special Forces, an empathetic customer advocate, and a product-focused leader that loves to think big. An MBA at Carnegie Mellon sparked his passion for tech, and for data-centric, mission-driven companies solving “real problems.” He's always enjoyed helping teams and has long been an advisor/mentor/advocate for entrepreneurial ventures in various organizations. His investments have spanned sectors, but always gravitate toward high-performing operators.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, TuneIn and Google Play.  Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio. 
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Mccune Capital
https://www.mccune.vc/

Are you building a painkiller or a vitamin?
https://medium.com/@McCuneVC/are-you-building-a-painkiller-or-a-vitamin-f5cbedb2a2b6 

Ep 29 - Matt Harrigan - Grand Central Tech
https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-29-matt-harrigan-grand-central-tech

Ep 45 - Jason Cahill - McCune Capital

Deborah Jackson is a founder and entrepreneur, early-stage investor and former investment banker. In 2012 Deborah founded Plum Alley to advance women entrepreneurs and strong teams of women and men, to build better products and companies that are positioned to outperform others.

Anyone interested in learning more about Plum Alley can email andrea@plumalley.co 

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- 20+ years raising capital for entities including healthcare  technology; past experience includes Goldman Sachs,  Shattuck Hammond Partners
- Early stage investor in copmanies in consumer internet, cloud  software, mobile, and medical, including one IPO
- Co-Founder/Advisor, WIM Accelerator to build mobile tech
- Columbia University Committee Advisor to President on  entrepreneurship
- Hosted hackathon w/ 18 women developers who built an  anti-sex trafficking game; covered by Fast Company
- Awards & Recognition: TechCrunch 40 Over 40, Forbes  “Women Changing the World” (VC/Enrepreneurs), Fast  Company “League of Extraordinary Women,” Bpeace  Economic Impact Award
- Start-up Competition Judge: Harvard Busines School New  Venture Competition, Technovation, Startup Weekend
- Featured Speaker: CNBC, Family Office Association, HBS,  The Atlantic Conference, Columbia University, UPenn

Ep 46 - Deborah Jackson - Plum Alley

Lindsey Gray leads the Platform Team at Two Sigma Ventures.  She is responsible for identifying the needs and challenges of portfolio companies, and developing resources, programs, and connections to help them succeed. Lindsey is also helping to build out Two Sigma Ventures' marketing and content strategy.

Lindsey joined Two Sigma Ventures from NYU where she was Senior Director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute. Prior to NYU, Lindsey worked with Fortune 500 companies on corporate spin-outs and innovation strategy as part of Clay Christensen’s consulting firm, Innosight. Lindsey received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Connecticut College.

Ep 47 - Lindsey Gray - Two Sigma Ventures

This episode's guest is Wendy Xiao Schadeck of Northzone. Wendy joined Northzone in 2016. She has a particular interest for media, fintech, real estate tech, edtech, and blockchain, and specifically companies that connect the New York and European ecosystems.  Prior to joining Northzone, Wendy worked at A. T. Kearney and Accenture, where she helped solve the toughest business problems for industry giants in financial services, CPG, retail, telecommunications, and transportation.

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Northzone:
www.northzone.com

Wendy’s most recent blog post:
http://northzone.com/blockchains-4-biggest-assumptions/

Tim Ferriss Podcast with Nick Szabo & Naval Ravikant:
www.tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

Steemit:
www.steemit.com

Ep 48 - Wendy Xiao Schadeck - Northzone

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