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29 Apr 2025
On this episode of The OpenVC podcast we talk to Francis Santora. Francis has been a full time angel investor for three years, and in that short time, he has had 2 investments reach $10m in ARR. Francis uses OpenVC.app to source high quality investment opportunities.
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29 Apr 2025
It's a great episode for other angel investors who want to learn the mistakes and lessons that Francis has learnt so far. But also for founders who want to learn how and what they can do to impress an angel investor.
Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=jJIYq3BT…
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29 Apr 2025
Liz Christo shares her insights on industries ripe for disruption:
- Construction and manufacturing, where legacy technology creates openings for AI-driven solutions
- Vertical software, where smaller, focused markets can lead to massive wins like Procore
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28 Apr 2025
Should founders ask investors for a NDA before sharing their decks?
The answer is no.
Here are the 6 reasons why, and how you can actually protect your startup without a NDA.
openvc.app/blog/nda 🔒
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26 Apr 2025
🚀 On this episode of The OpenVC podcast, we speak with Joakim Achren, one of Europe’s most accomplished gaming investors. He founded Next Games, which grew to 160 employees, went public, and ultimately was acquired by Netflix.
youtube.com/watch?v=LC2oRPQN…
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25 Apr 2025
This playbook is our home-made, battle-tested process to prepare a killer startup pitch deck.
2 hours of work that will save you 10x more time down the road.
Read now at openvc.app/blog/startup-pitc… ⚡️
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25 Apr 2025
Liz Christo, General Partner at Stage 2 Capital, shares a key insight: a strong seller with great fundamentals and work ethic can excel across industries—as long as they understand the right sales motion.
Her advice? Don’t overvalue industry experience.
Focus instead on finding talent who know the motion, whether its PLG inbound leads or enterprise deals.
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23 Apr 2025
Here are the top pitch deck designers for startups,
including their prices & past works:
pitchdeckexperts.app 🫡
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22 Apr 2025
On this episode of The OpenVC podcast we are joined by Chon Tang, the Founding & General Partner of Berkley Skydeck - the investment accelerator and fund for UC Berkeley.
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22 Apr 2025
Chon discuss how he went from starting a quant fund to working in VC, advice for founders and emerging managers, how Skydeck has differentiated itself from all other programs, and more.
Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=1atJiWjF…
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22 Apr 2025
Liz Christo, General Partner at Stage 2 Capital, highlights two key pitfalls founders face after raising a big Series A:
1️⃣ Ramping spend too quickly under pressure to hit aggressive growth targets
2️⃣ Overvaluing industry experience in sales hiring
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21 Apr 2025
"Your project sounds cool, but I'm not sure it's VC fundable".
If you're raising funds, you need to understand what VC fundability is and how you can improve it.
Read now at openvc.app/blog/vc-fundable 🥲
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18 Apr 2025
Here are some not-so-obvious insights about VCs, their incentives, their goals...
...that will help you get better deals with the investors you choose to work with!
Read now at openvc.app/blog/how-to-negot… ♟️
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18 Apr 2025
Liz Christo on how AI and automation has led to really high volume of really bad emails getting sent
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16 Apr 2025
OpenVC pro tip ⚡️
Take our Fundability test for free and find out how to boost your chances with investors:
fundability.app 💯
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15 Apr 2025
What Makes Stage 2 Capital Different?
1️⃣ Pod model: Every deal has two partners—one with a go-to-market background and one with a finance/VC background
2️⃣ Operator-powered LPs: With over 800 CROs, CMOs, and GTM leaders as LPs, Stage 2 offers founders direct access to talent referrals, introductions, advisors and more
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14 Apr 2025
Advisory shares are a double-edged sword.
Let's venture into the realm of startup advisory shares, addressing the whys, whos...
and the how muchs.
Read now at openvc.app/blog/advisory-sha… 🫢
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11 Apr 2025
We have compiled and summarized 16 research papers every VC should know.
Being an investor shouldn't be just about Twitter and pitch decks, here's some actual science for VC & angels.
Read now at openvc.app/blog/venture-capi… 🎓
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9 Apr 2025
OpenVC pro tip ⚡️
Premium members get unlimited access to $250k in software perks: Airtable, Hubspot, Stripe, Notion...
Best deal in town: openvc.app/perks 🤑
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