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Dead Weight on the Cap Table: Inside the Ugly World of Founder Breakups
Season 2 Episode 77
More startups die from co-founder breakups than from running out of money.
Attorney David Siegel, a partner at Grellas Shah LLP, has spent years ins…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
An Operator’s Playbook for Monetizing Product-Led Growth
Season 2 Episode 76
What do you do when everyone loves your product but no one’s paying for it? That was the challenge facing Beautiful.ai. Founder Mitch Grasso nailed t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Building a Bridge Across the Valley of Death
Season 2 Episode 75
Frontier tech startups don’t fail because the science is bad — they fail because no one needs what they’re building.
In this episode, Roadrunner Vent…
4 months ago
Are You *Really* Ready to Raise a Round? Here’s How to Tell
Season 2 Episode 74
You don’t need a Stanford degree or a flashy deck to raise a pre-seed, seed or Series A, but you do need to show investors that you’ve put in the wor…
4 months ago
From Side Project to Series B: How Learning Led to Product-Market Fit
Season 2 Episode 73
Dan Lee co-founded what would become Nooks while on leave from Stanford. He wasn’t solving sales. He was exploring remote collaboration during the pa…
4 months, 1 week ago
Building Hard Tech: Lessons on Funding, Teams, and Timelines
Season 2 Episode 72
UPDATE: On 9/8/2025, ZEI announced "the conclusion of its operations."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zeroei_zero-emission-industries-zei-announces-…
4 months, 1 week ago
Forget the Spin: Startup Myths That Hold Founders Back
Season 2 Episode 71
Rob Biederman has sat on both sides of the table — first as co-founder and CEO of Catalant Technologies, and now as managing partner at Asymmetric Ca…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Avoiding Founder Burnout and other Early-Stage Startup Pitfalls
Season 2 Episode 70
Pro tip: If you can’t see yourself getting up every morning for the next ten years and being excited about going to work, don’t launch a startup.
Aja…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
De-Risking Deep Tech: How to Land Seed Capital for Complex Ideas
Season 2 Episode 69
Karthee Madasamy is the founder of VC firm MFV Partners and the founding managing partner of Harper Court Ventures, both of which focus on early-stag…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Execution > Ideas: What Engineers Need to Know Before Becoming Founders
Season 2 Episode 68
Jyoti Bansal sold his first company, AppDynamics, to Cisco for $3.7 billion.
Harness, his next company, reached a similar valuation a few years later…
4 months, 3 weeks ago