This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Dan Martell, founder and CEO of Clarity, which connects entrepreneurs with experts, over the phone, for advice on their business challenges. Dan is a serial entrepreneur who founded

The JOBS Act At The End Of 2012

Dec 21st, 2012 24m 15s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Sara Hanks, founder of the crowdfunding due diligence company, CrowdCheck. Sara is an attorney with 30 years of experience working in the corporate and securities fields. She recent

Building An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Nov 16th, 2012 16m 42s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Brad Feld, one of the managing directors at Foundry Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage software / Internet companies throughout the United States. He is also

Entrepreneurial DNA

Oct 26th, 2012 28m 26s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Joe Abraham, author of Entrepreneurial DNA: The Breakthrough Discovery That Aligns Your Business to Your Unique Strengths.Joe has started up, grown and exited three companies of hi

Twintangibles And Italy’s Crowd Future

Oct 12th, 2012 17m 26s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Tim Wright, Director and Co-Founder of Twintangibles. Twintangibles is the organizer behind the Crowdfuture conference in Rome on October 27th 2012.Tim has worked as a consultant,

Crowdsourcing Microtasks And Innovation

Oct 5th, 2012 23m 31s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower, the leading microtask crowdsourcing platform and also the company behind the CrowdConf crowdsourcing industry events.CrowdFlower solves problems

Crowdfunding In Germany

Sep 21st, 2012 32m 45s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Wolfram Kosch, a German entrepreneur who raised a crowdfunding round in the seed stage of his business, LuduFactur, before going on to run a second crowdfunding campaign in Germany

NXTP Labs Accelerating Startups in Buenos Aires

Sep 3rd, 2012 25m 21s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Nora Palladino, Business Development Manager of Nextperience Labs (NXTP Labs), a Buenos Aires-based accelerator seed fund.NXTP Labs seeks to invest and provide hands-on support and

How to value your growth-stage company for crowdfunding

Aug 3rd, 2012 32m 21s

This week on the Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to Boaz Vinagradov of Navocate, which provides business sales and acquisition services for entrepreneurial companies.Dealing with valuations in an early-stage company is one of the m

Facebook’s IPO Fiasco: Simple Mismanagement or Systemic Injustice?

Jun 23rd, 2012 26m 2s

Click Image to Play EpisodeThis week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast explores the Facebook IPO fiasco and discusses what the disappointing offering says about the state of the U.S. capital markets.You can listen to

Podcast: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Beijing with Carole Wai Hai

Jun 15th, 2012 22m 53s

Click Image to Play EpisodeThis week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast explores the local startup ecosystem in Beijing, China. Our tour guide for this episode is Carole Wai Hai, founder of the Beijing-based startup gra

Travel Your Way to Startup Success: Inside The Lean Development & Soft Launch of StartupStay (Part 1 of 2)

Jun 9th, 2012 32m 13s

Have you ever found yourself leaving a business trip with the unsettling feeling that you spent too much and learned too little? On this week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast, Fred Caballero (@fredchannel), C0-Founder

Community Building Begins By Listening, A HootSuite Conversation

Jun 2nd, 2012 31m 43s

This week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast features Dave Olson (@daveohoots), VP of Community at HootSuite – the leading social media dashboard for managing social networks. Dave discusses best practices for entreprene

Podcast: Patrick Vlaskovits & The Lean Entrepreneur

May 29th, 2012 17m 58s

This week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast features Southern California entrepreneur, author and Lean Startup guru, Patrick Vlaskovits (@pv). Mentor for the Lean Startup Machine and organizer of the Los Angeles Lean St

Podcast: GrowVC at the Finance 4 StartUp Britain Week

May 4th, 2012 24m 16s

On this week’s Everyone Funding Startups podcast we were delighted to be joined by Emma Jones, one of the co-founders of StartUp Britain. Emma is a small-business expert and the author of books including ‘Spare Room Start Up – how to start a b

Podcast: Global Entrepreneurship and International Diplomacy

Apr 21st, 2012 28m 11s

This week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups Podcast explores the link between global entrepreneurship and international diplomacy. Joining us to discuss this powerful connection is Shelly Porges – Senior Advisor at the U.S. De

Crowdfunding’s impact on startups in the Interactive Entertainment industry

Apr 13th, 2012 25m 32s

Click Image to Play EpisodeThis week we were joined by Dr Jo Twist, CEO of the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE), to discuss the potential impact of crowdfunding on startups and developers in areas such as gaming and digital

Tech startup trends in Asia with e27 Director, Mohan Belani

Mar 31st, 2012 17m 55s

This week on the GrowVC Everyone Funding Startups podcast we spoke to the Director of e27, Mohan Belani about his upcoming Echelon events, the startup scene in Asia, his collaboration with GrowVC, and a great story behind the name of his compan

The Networks Program with Paul Higgins

Mar 26th, 2012 29m 24s

This week GrowVC’s COO, Markus returned to host our Everyone funding startups podcast. Markus interviewed GrowVC’s Networks Program manager, Paul Higgins about his background, the program, and the partners that are already onboard.GrowVC’s Net

Grow VC and the World Bank partner up in Africa

Mar 1st, 2012 26m 32s

It is an exciting time right now in Africa. Over the past several years, we have seen a large growth and boom in Africa, specifically in parts of East Africa. One of the industries that is leading the way in development is the mobile industry.

Upcoming Events at the Mobile World Congress

Feb 27th, 2012 11m 56s

Welcome to another episode of the Grow Venture Community podcast. Today we have Helen Keegan, a specialist in mobile marketing, advertising and media back on our podcast to discuss events at the upcoming annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelo

Crowdfunding Bill Requires Legislation by Crowd – A Conversation with U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry

Feb 3rd, 2012 1s

Grow VC celebrates the 100th episode of its Everyone Funding Startups podcast with special guest U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry – author of the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act now patiently awaiting action in the Senate. Congressman McHenr

Crowdsourcing Your Startup’s Success – with David Bratvold of DailyCrowdsource.com

Jan 27th, 2012 1s

In this episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast, we are joined by David Bratvold, Founder & CEO of The Daily Crowdsource, to discuss the current state of the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding markets and the ways in which entrepre

From Finance Professional to Startup Executive – with Brett Bivens

Jan 20th, 2012 1s

In this episode of the Everyone Funding Startups podcast, we welcome back Brett Bivens – former host of this show and current Director of Operations at Krossover Intelligence. Brett describes his transformation from a finance professional in Ch

The New Capital Creation Marketplace

Jan 8th, 2012 22m

In this episode, David Drake of LDJ Capital and The SohoLoft discusses his organization’s upcoming event and the creation of a new type of capital market. With the traditional financial markets shutting out smaller companies and investors, The