#81, Sway Ventures, Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner
from Fireside with a VC Hosted by Andrew Romans
Fireside with a VC hosting Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner of Sway Ventures at Professor Romans’ class on VC at Chapman University. Discussing a wide range of topics including: · Brian’s path to VC from Cisco to startups to venture capital. · Career advice for junior and senior folks to break into a career in venture capital. · ESG, women and minorities in venture. · How venture capital works. · Each stage of funding from friends and family, pre-seed, late stage seed, series A, B and growth funding rounds and considerations. · Pros and cons of investing at seed vs growth rounds, ownership targets / expectations for dilution, returns, timing and risk / reward profiles. · How Sway Ventures adds value. · Tactics for proprietary deal flow, avoiding bidding wars with other VCs, and delivering value to portfolio companies. · Primary sources of deal flow. · Common threads of most successful Sway portfolio companies. What are the characteristics of winning companies? Find this episode on all podcast platforms: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn?si=a835a3f3b5804cbb. YouTube: https://youtu.be/t17ruj6yFK0 https://www.swayvc.com/ [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ Join the conversation and tell us your view of any of the topics discussed in this episode.
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