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Today’s guest is Miles Lasater, serial founder turned investor and the founding partner at Purpose Built Ventures. As a founder, he helped Higher One scale to over $200MM in revenue and eventually, a public offering. In this interview, Miles shares his journey as a founder turned investor and illuminates insights from having experience on both sides of the venture capital marketplace!
By nature, life is about prioritizing activities that bring us the most fulfillment and de-prioritizing activities that bring us least fulfillment. However, there are often more things to be done than we can possibly do within a given frame of time. But time is just one aspect of the equation…
Today’s guest is Ullas Naik, Founder and General Partner @Streamlined Ventures. His notable investments include; Addepar, DoorDash, Rappi, and FLYR, for example. Ullas has been an investor for over 23 years with 400 companies worth of investment experience. He has steadily weathered the ups and downs of markets, and more importantly, been a steady, guiding hand to portfolio founders.
In the context of business, Talent Chemistry is the art of aligning diverse individual strengths, talents, and contributions, so that the output is greater than the sum of its parts (Talent Synergy). However, without undertaking a detailed, long-winded psychometric analysis, how can you quickly determine someone's natural talents even if you haven't worked with them before? In this post, we share exactly that.
A quick 2-question process to determine the zone of someone's natural talent.
What behaviors to look for to identify their natural talent footprint.
There are no short-cuts for emerging fund managers to solidify their position in the venture ecosystem— managers must:
Build relationships at scale.
Source investment opportunities.
Support the founder ecosystem.
Raise capital from LPs.
Emerging fund managers are prone to burn-out and must be thoughtful about their well-being. In this post, we share 3 things emerging managers can do to rejuvenate and recover without investing significant amounts of their time.
What happens when all you do is ask from a relationship without giving anything back? The other party won't feel there is any value in continuing to interact with you.
What happens if all someone does in a relationship is 'give' to you without taking anything you offer them? You won't feel you are contributing to the relationship, you won't feel valued for what you bring to the relationship, and the interaction will be discontinued.
