Scale by Design - Venture Capital Show
Leading the conversation on venture capital investment strategies and how to empower portfolio companies to scale.
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In this podcast episode, host James Mackey and our guest Mark Sherman, Managing Partner at Telstra Ventures, explore the current state of the financing market and discuss some sectors that are seeing great investments. Our guest highlights the significant trends in artificial intelligence, climate tech, and cybersecurity.
They explore the impact of tools like chat GPT on workforce planning and the potential for the redepl...
In this informative episode host, James Mackey sits down with Industry Leaders in the tech space and dives into the current economic environment and its impact on the tech industry, including recent layoffs and the state of tech industry health.
Our guests share their insights and experiences with starting and running companies during a downturn, offering perspectives from both the VC side and the Founder, CEO side.
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In this episode, host James Mackey, explores the story behind the founding of Crescent Fund, a micro VC fund focused on student startups in Southern California.
We’ll hear from Gaurav Mehta, Managing Partner, and Co-Founder, about their background and the inspiration for the fund, as well as the path to raising capital and doing the first deals. They also discuss the markets and companies that students in the region are in...
Raluca Mackey, Director of Talent at Vertex Ventures, joins host James Mackey to discuss the topic of employee engagement in light of the current economic downturn.
The conversation covers various important aspects of engaging employees, such as how layoffs should be handled, ways to show employees that they are valued, the role of paid time off in driving engagement and performance, and the importance of having a minimum...
Jason Radisson, Founder & CEO at Shift One (ex-Uber, McKinsey) discusses:
- Running lean orgs in a market downturn
- Leveraging near and offshore teams
- Lessons learned from building teams at Uber
Our host James Mackey, SecureVision CEO
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Asad Zaman, CEO of Sales Talent Agency, Inc. joins host James Mackey to discuss the state of the labor market, the impact on demand vs. supply of talent, hiring in a tough market, & more.
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Eren Uman, Co-Founder, and Partner at Greenlight Partners join host James Mackey to discuss the impact of capital market uncertainty on early-stage funding, the unique industry of climate tech, the due diligence process for startups & more.
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In this episode, Michael Benezra and Noah Ente of Erez Capital join James Mackey, CEO of SecureVision, to discuss investing in the BIPOC community, thoughts on the crypto crash, lack of innovation in many sectors, and a lot more.
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David J. Neff, Partner at Ecliptic Capital, shares his experience breaking into the VC industry. He discusses the value add of non-traditional backgrounds in VC. And breaks down the enormous range of opportunities in ClimateTech.
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Scott shares his founding story of GTMfund and the power of having an operator-led fund. He breaks down how every stage of the VC lifecycle is optimized at GTMfund and how this has contributed to almost all of their investments raising subsequent funds.
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Michael Nogen, the Managing Partner of Overton Venture Capital, shares his thoughts on next-gen commerce, his investment philosophy, and how VCs and founders need to approach 2023.
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Leen Kawas, the Managing General Partner of Propel Bio Partners, shares how her unique background as a pharmacist, entrepreneur, scientist, and investor has influenced her perspective on startups and the drug development lifecycle.
Our host James Mackey, SecureVision CEO
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Jason Webber, Principal and Co-Founder at Sustainable Conversion Ventures joins host James Mackey on Scale by Design - Venture Capital Show.
Jason Webber explains how many great innovations will die on the vine with the growing shortfall of semi-commercial fermentation capacity. Not necessarily capacity for the multi-billion dollar markets (food/proteins) so much as those getting squeezed out in the sub-billion dollar mark...
Vikram Chaudhery and Paul Conley join host James Mackey to discuss their vision as Founding Partners at General Inception.
The conversation flows from how General Inception is changing the game by partnering with scientific founders to provide technical and GTM strategy. As well as rolling up their sleeves with founders to work with partners, customers, and VCs.
Vikram and Paul then provide their insight on current market condition...
Daniel Hoffer, Managing Director at AutoTech Ventures, joins host James Mackey on the Scale by Design - Venture Capital Show. Daniel dives into the importance of hiring top talent, organizational planning, and different ways to compensate early-stage employees. The negative impact of convincing talent to join a startup by providing an inflated title.
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S2 E1:The convergence of Consumer Packaged Goods and Biotech. Capital efficiency and unit economics.
Elizabeth Edwards is the Founder and Managing Partner of H Venture. Elizabeth focuses on early-stage science-based consumer brands at the convergence of CPG and BioTech. She discusses advice to early-stage founders on how to navigate current market conditions, capital efficiency, unit economics, and supply chain impact on margin. She also provides insight into defining a path to profitable growth through unit economics at scale an...
Jen Spencer, CEO at SmartBug Media joins host James Mackey on the Scale by Design show to discuss capacity planning, capacity utilization, when it makes sense to scale existing staff versus when it makes sense to hire externally, how you keep great people engaged & more!
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Our host James Mackey, SecureVision CEO
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Patrick Hudgins, Founder & CEO at Delegate, joins host James Mackey on the Scale by Design show to discuss the nuances of moving up or down from your ICP, why founders & CEOs should consider standing up a function prior to hiring someone to run it, cold email outreach best practices and more!
Episode Chapters
00:21 Who is Patrick Hudgins?
01:45 Companies buy technology but don’t understand what to do with it
04:05 Marketing is ...
Ross Wolfe, Founding Partner & Managing Director of Diab Venture Partners, joins host James Mackey on the Scale by Design show to discuss Dragons vs Unicorns, how venture capital firms are deploying staff into the trenches with portfolio companies, different stock classes and incentive strategies, valuations, and a lot more!
00:25 Who is Ross Wolfe?
02:15 What is a “dragon”?
04:10 VCs are now more o...
EP 13: Ushering in the next evolution of personalized customer engagement w/Lio Slama, CEO at AskNeo
Lio Slama, CEO at AskNeo, joins host James Mackey to discuss how sales and marketing teams have lost the human touch, breaking down internal silos to usher in the next evolution of personalized customer engagement, fundraising tips, startup accelerator tips and more!
Episode Chapters
00:25 Who is Lio Slama? Former architect, painter (Instagram @arynewyork), and serial entrepreneur.
01:45 How the pandemic ...
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