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Jun 12, 2017 Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem. Getting funded or even acquired, in many cases, has more to do with whom you know than how good your product might be. FundersClub sees one of its core missions as opening up the opaque world of Silicon Valley to its founders, getting them connected to what is an antiquated system in many ways.

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May 11, 2017 Founders Should Be Skeptical Of Their Own Products Early On: Pear VC’s Ajay Kamat.

Using data, founders should know if they’ve hit upon a good product market-fit after 12 months. If not, be prepared to pivot or pull the plug, Kamat tells FundersClub during a conversation tracing his own evolution as founder and VC.

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Apr 13, 2017 Big Companies Act More Like Startups So People Don't Leave: Kleiner Perkins' Mike Abbott

Abbott, a 2014 investor in Snapchat, explains why he looks for companies that provide painkillers, not just vitamins, and why venture investments are ultimately bets on people.

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Mar 23, 2017 If Everybody Thinks It's A Good Idea, It's Probably Not: A Conversation With Niko Bonatsos

FC goes deep with the General Catalyst managing director Niko Bonatsos, who found the Snapchat team when they were still at Stanford.

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Feb 21, 2017 Mining Teenagers’ Minds For An Edge In Venture Capital: A Conversation With Arielle Zuckerberg

Live chat between Arielle Zuckerberg and FundersClub CEO, Alex Mittal, on the insights that she’s acquired as a product-person turned VC.

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Feb 9, 2017 Blockchain’s Massive Potential: A Conversation with Joey Krug

A conversation between FC's Christine Georghiou and Joey Krug, founder of Augur and FundersClub investor member.

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Jan 27, 2017 Work on Startups Early In Life, Get Technical If You’re Not. A Chat With Garry Tan—Founder, VC and Former YC Partner

Live conversation between FundersClub CEO, Alex Mittal, and Garry Tan – founder, YC Partner, and VC at Initialized Capital.

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Jan 17, 2017 Want to be a VC? Work at a Startup. Conversation with Spark VC's Megan Quinn.

Edited version of a live conversation between Megan Quinn, of Spark Capital, and FundersClub CEO, Alex Mittal.

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Dec 27, 2016 A Breaker of Barriers Stays Plugged in To Silicon Valley Past 80

A Conversation with Ellen Uhrbrock, a Silicon Valley mainstay and FundersClub Member who, in her ninth decade of life, remains focused on helping the Bay Area evolve.

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Dec 16, 2016 To Get Funded, Have Vision And Understand Your Market

A Conversation between Alex Mittal and Charles Hudson, the founder of Precursor Ventures, a pioneering firm in pre-seed funding.

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Oct 19, 2016 Taming A Massive Market Through an API with Shippo’s Laura Behrens Wu

Laura Behrens Wu co-founded Shippo with Simon Kreuz. The platform provides businesses with an API to ship anything, anywhere while optimizing on costs and speed. It was one of the first solutions providing a modern API across all of the disparate shipping options available to ecommerce companies. The company recently...

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Oct 12, 2016 Landing Your Dream Job When You Least Expect It

Conversation with David Handel on founding multiple tech startups after retiring from a 30 year radiology practice.

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