Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups Pulls Back the Curtain on VC Decision Making

Advice from Fred Wilson, Rob Go and Hyde Park Angels about successfully pitching your startup to investors

Mark W King discusses what Satya Patel of Homebrew Ventures, Steve Blank of lean start-up fame and Aaron k Harris of Y-Combinator say about start-up founders, co-founders and founding teams.

How do VCs make money? More importantly, why should you care? In this episode of Venture Capital Voicemail, I look at what 3 VCs say about how their funds generate amazing returns.

Newman doesn't understand why a start-up wouldn't raise some extra capital for a buffer. Victor explains his view and points Newman to a post by Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures.

Victor explains to Newman why start-ups pitching venture capital firms need a VC champion from inside the firm.

Mark W King introduces his new podcast Venture Capital Voicemail, a semi-fictional show where a fictional venture capitalist shares very non-fictional articles, audio and video content to help investors, entrepreneurs and start-up teams succeed.

My interviews with venture capital’s most successful failures have proven that the sage old advice from Kenny Rogers still applies: “Ya gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away and know when to run.

Jeff Novich can spot opportunity. His Dad’s medical practice was drowning in paper. Jeff created a solution that was a massive home run for his dad. But in less than a year Jeff walked away in frustration. Find out what he learned from failing fast.

What were you doing when you were 18? Nikki Durkin was finding co-founders, doing the Y-Combinator thing, raising venture capital, dealing with reporters, replacing co-founders, raising more venture capital and otherwise trying to grow her start-up.