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Where founders meet investors. Host Chris Hines features early-stage companies raising capital and the emerging fund managers investing in them. Founders: Get discovered by 200+ active investors. Investors: Access committee-vetted deal flow and build LP fundraising credibility.
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Content That Compounds: Founders’ Playbook (opens the original)
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Chris breaks down how leading companies built massive brands through content strategy rather than ad spend. The episode covers three case studies and makes the case for why founders should prioritize content creation from day one. Complete the Fundabil...
The Content-Driven Fundraising Blueprint (opens the original)
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In this solo episode, Chris breaks down the content-driven fundraising blueprint for pre-seed and seed founders. Drawing from two years of investor interviews and his work as a scout for multiple VC firms, he explains why fundraising is really about re...
How Investors Use AI to Evaluate Startups (opens the original)
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Sarah Romanko, an investor at Geek Ventures, shares her unconventional journey from real estate to venture capital — a path that involved leaving a stable job, moving back home with her parents, and taking a leap with no Plan B. She and host Chris Hine...
The Other Side of the Cap Table: What VCs Really Look For — with Marcos Gonzalez (opens the original)
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Chris sits down with Marcos Gonzalez, founding partner of Vamos Ventures, to pull back the curtain on what it's really like to run a venture capital fund. Marcos shares why being a VC is less about writing checks and more about building a business — fr...
What Adam Spector Looks for in Founders (opens the original)
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In this episode, host Chris sits down with Adam Spector — four-time founder, 200+ startup investor, and CEO of Chore — to talk about the future of money, what it really means to build a startup, and why founders are their own worst enemy. Adam Spector,...
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