Ep185 – Maxine Minter (Founder & GP – Co Ventures) on pre-seed, performance and mental models

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep185 – Maxine Minter (Founder & GP – Co Ventures) on pre-seed, performance and mental models May 30, 2024 rohitbhargava Podcast My guest for Ep185 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Maxine Minter. Maxine is the Founder & General Partner of CoVentures a $5M pre-seed fund. Alongside her role at Co Ventures, she is also the Founder of Co Lab, a platform that matches Founders & CEOs with executive coaches. In this interview we covered a range of topics including,  why Maxine decided to launch a dedicated pre-seed fund how she assess investment opportunities at that stage the importance of effective communication as a leader  How to get the most out of an executive coach & much more Timestamps 1:40 Maxine’s background 14:46 Making the leap to startups 21:11 Performance coaching for founders 26:52 Leadership mental models 30:29 Developing better communication and empathy skills 41:12 Common traits of world class performers 50:38 Launching a dedicated Pre-Seed fund 55:24 The huge opportunity in the Australian ecosystem 1:04:16 What Maxine looks for when investing in early stage companies 1:22:04 Lessons from previous venture backed startup Our partners A big thank you to Chris Bartlett and Jax Vullinghs for their help with this interview! Also a big shout out to our partners for the show: Scendar  Scendar is the OG startup accounting firm in Australia catering to all stages of your business’ life. If you’re busy running your startup, you don’t have time to do your own books and forecast. Instead, fully outsource your finance function, giving you time and resources back to focus on what you do best in growing your business. Find out more at Scendar.com Vanta Vanta helps businesses get — and stay — compliant by automating up to 90% of the work for the most in-demand compliance frameworks. And with over 300 integrations, you can easily monitor and secure the tools your business relies on.Join over six thousand fast-growing companies that use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time.Startup Playbook Podcast listeners get access to an exclusive offer of USD$1000 off their plans. Head over to vanta.com/playbook to get access to this exclusive discount Links mentioned Maxine’s links LinkedIn Co Ventures Co Lab People mentioned Dustin Dalganow Lawrence Lessig Nick Crocker Jackie Vullinghs Bill Campbell Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz Sergey Brin Larry Page Andy Grove – High Output Management Carol Dweck Janathan Haidt Bill Gurley Chris Bartlett Adir Shiffman Simon Sinek – The Infinite Game Companies mentioned Blackbird CodeX Plaid Segment Notion Whatsapp Instagram DoorDash 43 Airtree intel Benchmark Playbook Ventures Snowflake Feedback/connect/say hello: [email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel Credits: Music: Paycheck Other channels: Find all of the links for the podcast on Linktree here https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/startupplaybook/Ep185_-_Maxine_Minter.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-moz-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea:-ms-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } Copyright © 2015 - Live Composer The post Ep185 – Maxine Minter (Founder & GP – Co Ventures) on pre-seed, performance and mental models appeared first on Startup Playbook.