Weekly LIVE Office Hours

Опубликовано: 30 Октябрь 2024
на канале: Chris Haroun

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On our 272nd Weekly Office Hours Q&A Webcast I interviewed my friend Ilya Strebulaev, an award-winning Professor of Venture Capital at Stanford Graduate School of Business, who has been researching all things VC since he came to Stanford 20 years ago. He is also the author of the most popular and oversubscribed Stanford Venture Capital course. Professor Ilya is about to release a must-read book "The Venture Mindset." I asked him questions on what founders need to know to fundraise successfully and why we all should acquire the Venture Mindset.

Here are the 2 links mentioned during the webcast:

Link #1 of 2: Ilya's Venture Mindset book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Mindse...

Link # 2 of 2: Attend a live VC webinar with Ilya for free and get access to his unicorn report and more: https://thevcmindset.com/book/

0:00 Call Starts

9:00 Welcome to the 272nd Weekly Live Webcast of May 9, 2024!

10:35 We Welcome to the Webcast: Ilya Strebulaev

11:30 How does an entrepreneur knows he has a homerun business model?

13:30 Why you should fail more often?

17:24 How to best build your network?

22:07 How to leverage LinkedIn and establish an audience?

25:30 Why are some college dropouts more likely to build Unicorn companies?

27:30 How to network if you did not attend university?

30:42 Why doesn't more innovation come out of big companies?

33:50 How can big companies emulate like Qualcomm Ventures does in terms of innovation?

37:07 How do venture capitalists learn about new technology trends?

39:09 What sort of quantitative and qualitative techniques does a VC firm use to evaluate a company?

43:00 Besides AI, what are the top trends that VC are monitoring?

46:28 Does the American education system give American students a distinct advantage?

50:16 What are the best characteristics for a successful entrepreneur?

52:05 What is the most important part of a 30-second elevator pitch?

54:34 Top qualities to become a Unicorn founder?

57:26 How to create a culture of encouraging disagreements without upsetting anyone?

1:00:09 How to avoid falling into groupthink?

1:02:46 How does a VC firm know when it's time to keep investing back into a startup?

1:04:59 How to avoid being diluted and how to pick the right Board members?

1:07:00 What is the best structure to be paid as a founder in terms of stock options and shares?

1:09:17 How to handle the exit strategy?

1:13:05 What advice would you give yourself before you started your career as a professor?

1:14:09 How important is cybersecurity to VC right now?

1:14:50 Besides AI and Defense, what are the other trends that VC is paying attention to?

1:15:30 How widespread is access to venture capital for Latin America companies?

1:17:26 How to differentiate my company that is about educating women in AI?

1:18:49 How will the new non-compete FTC rules impact negotiations between VCs and founders?

1:21:10 Q/A Session Begins

1:21:17 How to become a comprehensive financial advisor that is very flexible in investment options?

1:23:22 How to create a stream of income using ETFs?

1:24:36 Are you bullish on entrepreneurship?

1:26:20 How to invest if I'm living in Africa?

1:27:16 What courses of yours should I take if I want to get into consulting?

1:27:55 Why is failing not always a bad thing?

1:29:33 Best way to network?

1:31:26 How to retain employees?

1:35:00 Do you trade futures?

1:39:50 What do you think about Google and Facebook paying dividends?

1:45:17 Can you tell if a hedge fund is manipulating currencies?

1:48:32 How to do research on startups?

1:50:25 Do you think Powell will drop rates this year?

1:52:02 What do you think about America's debt?

1:55:15 What is the magic of Silicon Valley?

2:00:20 How to invest in the S&P500 if I live in Africa?

2:01:30 What is the best way to get into the financial markets with small amounts of money?

2:04:54 Why are IPO prices so high?