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High Stakes — 74 episodes
What Makes a Business VC-Backable? | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, & Jon Sherry (Alium, Ex-CB Insights)
Learn the Lingo VCs Actually Use | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, & K Street Capital
Go-to-Market Is the Moat | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, and Mark Schacknies (NFTYDoor)
How VCs Structure Venture Deals | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Scott Stern (Partner, Origin Ventures)
How VCs Evaluate Pre-Revenue Startups | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures)
Venture Liquidity, Secondaries & How VCs Exit | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Andrew (Principal at Savano Capital)
VC Deal Timelines & Due Diligence | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Matt Bressler (Lookout Ventures & Fmr TDF Ventures)
Power Dynamics in VC | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, Haley Bryant (Hustle Fund), & Ann Marie Guzzi (Dalmatian Ops, Angel Investor & Agora Initiative)
How VCs Evaluate Founding Teams | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, & Neil Shah (CEO, ThinkNimble)
Angel Investors vs. VCs | Paige Soya & Dadi Akhavan (Startup-to-IPO Founder)
How VCs Source Deals | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Taylor Margot (Partner, Lytical Ventures)
Not All Capital Is Created Equal: Venture Capital vs. Other Funding | Paige Soya & Jill Ralph (Former Chemonics Capital and Motley Fool)
An Introduction to Venture Capital: Meet your hosts | Paige Soya & Nick Duafala at K Street Capital: Season 4 of High Stakes
Unlocking Women Investing in VC with Julie Castro Abrams
What VCs and Angel Investors are seeing from Y-Combinator in 2025
How Early Funding Rounds a Shape Startup's Future
How Diverse Founders Drive Bigger Wins
The Art and Science of Diligence in Early-Stage VC
How VC success is truly measured
What LPs Want from VC Fund Managers
Power Law & the VC Playbook
The Relationship between Check Size, Ownership Percentage and Stage in VC Investing
Dual Threat CEOs
Why VCs Care About Board Seats | Brian Goldsmith, Co-founder & Partner at Avenue Growth Partners
The Unseen Work of Venture Capital | James Barila, Executive Director of Station, DC
Habits of Highly Successful Founders | Alex Wirth, CEO of Quorum
Landing a job in VC | Myrto Lalacos
The Cold, Hard Truth About Startup Shutdowns | Dori Yona
When Venture Deals Go South: Inside the Realities of Startup Failures, Wind Downs, Write-Offs, and Zombie Companies
Why Some VCs Lead and Others Don’t | Mark Volchek
Breaking Into Venture—No Straight Paths, Just Bold Moves | Ethan Austin
How Government Policy Shapes VC-Backed Startups: Lessons from Softbank | Bruce Andrews
Fundraising from VCs: Game Changing Insider Tips | Basel Fakhoury
The End Is Not the End | Greg Vetter
Why Transparency Can Make or Break a Transaction | Dimitry Gershenson
How This Georgetown MBA Class Project Got Acquired by GoodBuy Gear | Alli Cavasino & Natalie Poston
Leverage IP For A Winning Exit | Todd Bracher & Paige Soya
What No One Tells You Before Getting Acquired | Scott Tilton
The Strategic Rationale Behind Early Exits | Aaron Mendes & PrivacyHawk
M&A Lessons Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know | Richard Leggett & Tom McCormick
3 Exit Strategies That Changed Everything, Featuring Zach Axelrod
How This Entrepreneur Sold His Startup To Dropbox For $165M | Russ Heddleston
Proactive Investment Exit Strategies: Insights from Marcus Brauchli
Industry Dive's Expansion Strategy and Exit with Founder Sean Griffey
Building Impactful Companies: Insights for Founders, Featuring Joe Fluet
Insights on IPOs and acquisitions from both sides of the table, featuring Martin Tobias
From Campaigns to Companies: Navigating Exits and Venture Capital, featuring Sara Fagen
Timing a Pandemic Exit: Airside's Exit to Onfido, featuring founder/CEO Hans Miller
A Founder's Ultimate Dilemma: Exploring M&As vs. IPOs, featuring Rob Schwartzberg and Darren Womer
Exit Strategy: Insights from Serial Entrepreneur Rami Essaid
From HODL to Hindsight: A Roller Coaster Ride in Cannabis Investing
Navigating Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Mei Xu's Exit
FrontierView's Exit, Featuring Richard Leggett and Tom McCormick
Axios Exit to Cox Featuring Roy Schwartz
Marketing Frontiers: Consumer Engagement with Venture Insights (featuring Shizu Okusa and Sahil Rahman)
Dos and Don’ts for Founders from the KSC Diligence Committee
Ep. 18: The New Epoch of ClimateTech (Featuring Kiran Bhatraju & Logan Soya)
Tools for C-Suites: Getting a Handle on Employee Sentiment in Real Time
Are Startups Dying?
Future Technologies for Capturing Attention & Building Relationships
Prop Tech Solutions for Decarbonization
NFTs, Blockchain, and Web3: Key Insights for Founders and Investors
Tech Policy - AI Regulation
The Rise of Climate Fintech
The EDA's Newly Launched Tech Hubs Program
The Impacts of AI on EdTech & Behavioral Science
VC Term Sheet Trends and AI Impacts on Travel
Raising VC Funding in 2023
The Future of Communications & Influence Leveraging Generative AI
Digital Credentialing and Cybersecurity VC Trends
2023 Trends In Mediatech & What Investors Are Looking For
SVB Part 2 – Impacts on The Venture Ecosystem (featuring Mark Schacknies)
Understanding Cash Flow For VC-Backed Companies & The Impacts of SVB’s Collapse (featuring Rich Leggett & Manu Smadja)
What Makes a Great Founder & How We Diligence Them (featuring Julian Ha & Areo Nazari)