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Investor Connect Podcast

Hall T Martin interviews angel and venture capital investors on how they invest and talks with CEOs who discuss their sector and what to look for.

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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    Startup Funding Espresso – The Importance of Vesting Shares (opens the original)

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    The Importance of Vesting Shares Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Vesting shares means taking shares granted to an employee and having them earned over time. A typical vesting schedule is four years with a one-year cliff. This means the employee granted shares will not have ownership of the shares for the first year. At the end of the first year, the employee now owns 25% of the shares granted. After that, the em

  2. Episode · Sep 21, 2026

    Startup Funding Espresso – What Is Reverse Due Diligence (opens the original)

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    What Is Reverse Due Diligence Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Due diligence is the process of reviewing the condition of a company to be acquired. The purpose is to understand the company's current status, including risks, assets, liabilities, and potential opportunities. Reverse due diligence is when the company being acquired reviews the condition of the acquirer. Here are several reasons why one would execute

  3. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Investor Connect 895: Jason Taylor of CodeLaunch on Solving the Pre-MVP Catch-22 with Venturetainment (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Investor Connect, we welcome Jason Taylor, founder and president of CodeLaunch, who shares how he created the program in 2012 to help early-stage tech founders overcome the catch-22 of needing a product to raise funding but needing funding to build the product. Jason explains how CodeLaunch runs regional competitions that narrow hundreds of applicants down to six finalists per region, then pairs each finalist with a three-person team of elite improving developers for an intens

  4. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Startup Funding Espresso – The Importance of a Data Room (opens the original)

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    The Importance of a Data Room Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. A dataroom is a collection of the key documents of a startup for a fundraise. The dataroom can be kept in software specifically designed for dataroom access or in a simple storage folder. These documents include legal entity filings, patents, financials, forecasts, cap table, contracts, and more. A well-organized data room is a must-have component of

  5. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    Startup Funding Espresso – How To Invest Using a Fund of Funds (opens the original)

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    How To Invest Using a Fund of Funds Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Investing in a series of venture capital funds is one strategy for venture investing. This is a fund of funds investment strategy. Venture funds give the Limited Partner access to the best VCs in the industry. Each of the funds used will also bring a set of management and carry fees with it. The goal is to model out a portfolio of VC funds that

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