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High Stakes — 65 episodes

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Angel Investors vs. VCs | Paige Soya & Dadi Akhavan (Startup-to-IPO Founder)

2

How VCs Source Deals | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & Taylor Margot (Partner, Lytical Ventures)

3

Not All Capital Is Created Equal: Venture Capital vs. Other Funding | Paige Soya & Jill Ralph (Former Chemonics Capital and Motley Fool)

4

An Introduction to Venture Capital: Meet your hosts | Paige Soya & Nick Duafala at K Street Capital: Season 4 of High Stakes

5

Unlocking Women Investing in VC with Julie Castro Abrams

6

What VCs and Angel Investors are seeing from Y-Combinator in 2025

7

How Early Funding Rounds a Shape Startup's Future

8

How Diverse Founders Drive Bigger Wins

9

The Art and Science of Diligence in Early-Stage VC

10

How VC success is truly measured

11

What LPs Want from VC Fund Managers

12

Power Law & the VC Playbook

13

The Relationship between Check Size, Ownership Percentage and Stage in VC Investing

14

Dual Threat CEOs

15

Why VCs Care About Board Seats | Brian Goldsmith, Co-founder & Partner at Avenue Growth Partners

16

The Unseen Work of Venture Capital | James Barila, Executive Director of Station, DC

17

Habits of Highly Successful Founders | Alex Wirth, CEO of Quorum

18

Landing a job in VC | Myrto Lalacos

19

The Cold, Hard Truth About Startup Shutdowns | Dori Yona

20

When Venture Deals Go South: Inside the Realities of Startup Failures, Wind Downs, Write-Offs, and Zombie Companies

21

Why Some VCs Lead and Others Don’t | Mark Volchek

22

Breaking Into Venture—No Straight Paths, Just Bold Moves | Ethan Austin

23

How Government Policy Shapes VC-Backed Startups: Lessons from Softbank | Bruce Andrews

24

Fundraising from VCs: Game Changing Insider Tips | Basel Fakhoury

25

The End Is Not the End | Greg Vetter

26

Why Transparency Can Make or Break a Transaction | Dimitry Gershenson

27

How This Georgetown MBA Class Project Got Acquired by GoodBuy Gear | Alli Cavasino & Natalie Poston

28

Leverage IP For A Winning Exit | Todd Bracher & Paige Soya

29

What No One Tells You Before Getting Acquired | Scott Tilton

30

The Strategic Rationale Behind Early Exits | Aaron Mendes & PrivacyHawk

31

M&A Lessons Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know | Richard Leggett & Tom McCormick

32

3 Exit Strategies That Changed Everything, Featuring Zach Axelrod

33

How This Entrepreneur Sold His Startup To Dropbox For $165M | Russ Heddleston

34

Proactive Investment Exit Strategies: Insights from Marcus Brauchli

35

Industry Dive's Expansion Strategy and Exit with Founder Sean Griffey

36

Building Impactful Companies: Insights for Founders, Featuring Joe Fluet

37

Insights on IPOs and acquisitions from both sides of the table, featuring Martin Tobias

38

From Campaigns to Companies: Navigating Exits and Venture Capital, featuring Sara Fagen

39

Timing a Pandemic Exit: Airside's Exit to Onfido, featuring founder/CEO Hans Miller

40

A Founder's Ultimate Dilemma: Exploring M&As vs. IPOs, featuring Rob Schwartzberg and Darren Womer

41

Exit Strategy: Insights from Serial Entrepreneur Rami Essaid

42

From HODL to Hindsight: A Roller Coaster Ride in Cannabis Investing

43

Navigating Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Mei Xu's Exit

44

FrontierView's Exit, Featuring Richard Leggett and Tom McCormick

45

Axios Exit to Cox Featuring Roy Schwartz

46

Marketing Frontiers: Consumer Engagement with Venture Insights (featuring Shizu Okusa and Sahil Rahman)

47

Dos and Don’ts for Founders from the KSC Diligence Committee

48

Ep. 18: The New Epoch of ClimateTech (Featuring Kiran Bhatraju & Logan Soya)

49

Tools for C-Suites: Getting a Handle on Employee Sentiment in Real Time

50

Are Startups Dying?

51

Future Technologies for Capturing Attention & Building Relationships

52

Prop Tech Solutions for Decarbonization

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NFTs, Blockchain, and Web3: Key Insights for Founders and Investors

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Tech Policy - AI Regulation

55

The Rise of Climate Fintech

56

The EDA's Newly Launched Tech Hubs Program

57

The Impacts of AI on EdTech & Behavioral Science

58

VC Term Sheet Trends and AI Impacts on Travel

59

Raising VC Funding in 2023

60

The Future of Communications & Influence Leveraging Generative AI

61

Digital Credentialing and Cybersecurity VC Trends

62

2023 Trends In Mediatech & What Investors Are Looking For

63

SVB Part 2 – Impacts on The Venture Ecosystem (featuring Mark Schacknies)

64

Understanding Cash Flow For VC-Backed Companies & The Impacts of SVB’s Collapse (featuring Rich Leggett & Manu Smadja)

65

What Makes a Great Founder & How We Diligence Them (featuring Julian Ha & Areo Nazari)