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Mark Engelen, co-founder of RxLive joins us for a portfolio profile.
This long Covid pandemic not only reshuffled the deck for many of us, it flung the deck up into the air and torched it like one of those fire breathers at the circus. But it's long been known that game changing societal events bring game changi
'If you believe that, I've got some swamp land in Florida I'd love to sell you." That round about way of calling someone gullible actually has a pretty nefarious history. For decades, unscrupulous hucksters sold Florida swamp land, Brooklyn Bri
The Yogi-isms could not be contained to one episode, so we made it a double header. In today's episode, we continue studying the unintentional startup wisdom contained in Yogi's cryptic quotes.
Yogi Berra was one of the greatest catchers in baseball history. He won 3 MVPs and 10 World Series. He lead multiple teams to the World Series as a coach. He was pretty awesome on the field, but is perhaps even more famous for his Yogi-isms. Th
Dave has officially gone bionic. While I wouldn't dare race him, I will gladly listen to his latest insights on the med-tech space. That's exactly what we do in this episode.
Dave started both of the major investing vehicles in Tampa Bay: Florida Funders and SeedFunders. Between the two, he's reviewed thousands of companies and seen them bloom and bust. In this episode Dave shares how those experiences have shaped h
Decentralized and trustless blockchain protocols open a universe of services previously reserved for governments or large institutions. The opportunities are massive but many of them require founders and investors to completely change the way t
Uber is quite successful, and it has been for while. So long in fact that we've already cycled through startups being the 'Uber of xyz' as a badge of honor to it being an overused cliché. The Uber of 1980, however, would have been...well, hitch
In episode 23, Dave walks us through his professional journey. From the steel mills of Pennsylvania he emerged as an unlikely founder, and ultimately became a hero in the Florida startup ecosystem. He's experienced the highs and lows of buildin
A good diversification strategy is critical to successful investing. There's a notable exception and that's technology. Whether tech-based or tech-enabled, how companies use tech may be diverse, but that they use it is a constant in the best pe
Have you ever been all dressed up with no place to go? That's a common scenario for startups in today's distracted world. Founders, who are often experts on their product or service, learn quickly that a great concept and a strong team aren't e
The word lean has been buzzing around the business lexicon since the 1980s. In the beginning, lean business practices applied mainly to manufacturing as a cost cutting strategy. Over the years though, it has become pervasive and is now applied
The future is so bright, we had to break a discussion about it into 2 episodes. In this 2nd conversation we dig into crowdfunding and it's probable trajectory towards being a major source of capital in the future. And whether by new crowd metho
No one can accurately predict the future, but there's no one we would rather have not accurately predict the future than Dave. In this episode Dave brings his research, his insight and a few devices of the ethereal to the table (literally), and
In this episode of the SeedFunders podcast, a new partner, Bob Kropp, pinch hits for Dave. Bob gives an overview of his experience in medicine and what it has helped him understand about investing in medical startups. He also shares why he join
Startups fail. The startup road is littered with the carca.....and...swirling above there are vult...well - I'll spare your gory analogy. Let's just say if you're walking that road, wear your Wellingtons because it's inevitable you'll step in s
There's a lot riding on cap tables. They, in theory, tell us who owns what equity in a company. But not all cap tables are created equal. Some show only issued shares, but not option pools or unissued shares. Some don't include the soon-to-b
On this episode Dave leads us on a tour through the investment vehicle showroom. We cover equity, convertible notes and SAFEs as ways to invest. And we revisit the sometimes speedbump, sometimes launch ramp of valuation.
Doing due diligence on startups can be like trying to put fog in a box. The variables can shift ethereally or disappear altogether when the sun shines on them. But you still have to try. To that end, Dave has created a checklist of 10 important
Seedfunders reviews hundreds of startups a year and one of the first things we look at is the number of founders. We typically use three buckets: Solo founders, teams of 2 or 3, and 4 plus. In this episode Dave shares which bucket he prefers as
"It's an art and a science" is a descriptor not often used in the financial world. Numbers, by definition, are qualitative. The exception to the norm is valuing startups, which may be neither art nor science, and instead something approaching v
For episode 10 of the Seedfunders Podcast, we turn our attention to Seedfunders itself. Dave lays out the SF investment thesis and how that thesis is activated by the partners. You'll hear some familiar terms and see how they specifically map t
Diversity is a well trodden subject in investment content. Stocks and bonds, or bonds an stocks? The traditional answers explain diversity within these two classes. But what about our favorite asset class - the startup asset class? In this epis
Term sheets are not legally binding, but people still get pretty attached to them. That makes sense as they represent the first articulation of what could become a pretty big deal for the startup. In this episode, Dave helps us understand the m
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