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FROM IDEA TO INVESTMENT Podcast

From Idea to Investment, the ultimate podcast for aspiring entrepreneurs and startup founders navigating the complex world of venture capital.

Podcast · By Brad Young · English · Official site

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Sep 20, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 20, 2026

    The Scaling Playbook: Growth Without Burning Your Runway (opens the original)

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    Here's a truth that catches founders completely off guard: raising money doesn't make you safe. In many ways, it makes you more vulnerable. Because now you have fuel, and fuel makes it easy to move fast in the wrong direction. Remember that statistic from the Startup Genome Project I've mentioned before? Premature scaling accounts for roughly 70 percent of startup failures among high-growth companies. Seven out of ten. These weren't founders who failed to grow. They were founders who grew the wr

  2. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    Why Great Startups Fail to Raise—and How to Fix It (opens the original)

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    According to research from the Startup Genome Project, which has studied over a million companies, roughly 90 percent of startups fail. And when Fundera dug into why, they found something even harder to swallow: a huge share of those failures weren't caused by bad products. They were caused by an inability to raise the capital those companies needed to survive.Sit with that for a second. Not a bad idea. Not a bad team. Not even a bad market. Good companies—companies with paying customers and rea

  3. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    How to Build a Business Model Investors Actually Fund (opens the original)

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    Here's something that might surprise you: according to CB Insights, 38% of startups fail because they simply run out of cash. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find that most of those companies didn't fail because of bad luck. They failed because their business model was never designed to attract capital in the first place. They had an idea. They had passion. They even had customers. But the structure of their business couldn't support the kind of growth investors need to see. Become a support

  4. Episode · Sep 5, 2026

    The New Map of Venture Capital and How Great Companies Get Funded Anywhere in the World (opens the original)

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    Let me start with a belief that a lot of founders quietly carry around, whether they admit it or not. Somewhere deep down, many people believe that to build a truly great, fully funded company, you have to be in one magical place. You have to be in Silicon Valley. You have to be in that one small stretch of the world where all the money lives, all the smart investors gather, and all the big dreams supposedly come true. And if you are not there, you tell yourself, well, maybe you were born in the

  5. Episode · Aug 30, 2026

    Robots, Drones, and the Automation Reshaping How the World Moves (opens the original)

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    Let me start with a picture. Right now, as you listen to this, there are warehouses where machines are doing the work that thousands of people used to do by hand. Robots gliding across floors, learning to see, learning to move, learning to decide where things go and how to get them there faster. And up above, in more places than you would believe, small aircraft are carrying packages, medicine, and supplies through the air, straight over broken roads and crowded cities, delivering in minutes wha

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