Gard Mayer's path as an entrepreneur has more twists & turns than a back road through the mountains. In this venture capital podcast he talks about huge success, complete failure & everything in between, pivoting his start-ups when reality set in

Peter Schlegel had a path. Get seed venture capital. Launch start-up. Join incubator. Get capital from incubator's loan fund to build start-up. Sounded good to everyone...except one guy at the loan fund. Oh…and the Danish immigration authority?

Rachel Chalmers knows your Achilles heel. After 20+ years in Silicon Valley's front row watching start-up tech companies, she knows the single biggest cause of start-up failure. Listen to hear what she sees as critical for entrepreneurial success

Can you raise venture capital too fast? Nag Palavalli thinks so. His journey from dropping out of college in India to the Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley shows why. Nag also identifies the one person he wishes he'd talked to before launch

Nigel Grierson has invested in start-ups for quite a while, first at Intel Capital Europe; then as co-founder of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. He's learned a few things about venture capital success from failure.

Nobody was better prepared for leading a start-up than Jeanette Cajide. Listen in as Jeanette shares the struggles of getting Blurtt off the ground, pivoting and most importantly get the right people on board.

Rick Faulk knew what it took to grow a venture capital backed start-up. Listen in as Rick shares what he learned as co-CEO for three merged social software companies about M&A diligence, merging corporate cultures and decisive leadership.

Entrepreneurship is not for wimps. Good thing Barry Weinbaum learned to take a punch as a kid in the Bronx. He got hit hard as CEO of a venture capital backed start-up. He lived to fight another day, so listen in to hear his valuable lessons

Kevin Naughton had done the venture capital backed start-up thing and moved on. Then came the call: "Can you come back and help us sell the company?" Like any good entrepreneur, Kevin answered the call. Listen in as he shares what he learned.

My Guest - Coming out of the Univ. of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a BS in Management, Mark Redlus jumped right into the entrepreneurial side of the technology industry. He launched Red Sector A which was acquired by CoreTech. At CoreTech he rose