Minisode: What’s the Real Value Add of VCs?

Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent conversation with Dan Gray, prolific venture writer and Research Lead at Odin. They discuss various levels of risk tolerance across the ec ...  Show more

Dan Gray is a prolific thinker, writer and researcher in the VC world, who describes himself as best known for “long walls of text on Twitter about the venture industry.” Now the Research Lead at Odin, he sits down with Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, and Beezer Clarkson ...  Show more

How much value do VCs truly bring beyond their capital? And what makes the difference between a supportive partnership and a dysfunctional founder-investor relationship?

In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein welcome Nick Crocker, General Partner ...

Mike Maples Jr. is one fo the pioneers of seed-stage investing, and invested early in the likes of Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft. I asked him to do something a little unusual: give advice to small business owners who, instead of pitching VCs like him, are instead pitching their famil ...  Show more

In this episode we’re going to be talking about investor relations — i.e. staying in touch with your investors and maintaining good relationships with them. 

Investors are people too, y’know! Just like your friends or spouse, they want to be kept in the loop and ...

Are you a founder struggling to figure out how to fund your startup? With so many options available - from bootstrapping to VC funding - how do you know which path is right for you?

In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein break down the full spectrum ...