Welcome to First Check, a podcast so you can learn how to be the next great venture capitalist or angel investor. As a partner at Cofounders Capital, host of First Check Tim McLoughlin has invested over $43 million in startups, and on this podcast, Tim shares what works and what doesn’t, so you can be ready to write your first check.

Venture capital is a critical source of funding for innovation, but how do you know which sectors are tech bubbles in the making? What are the metrics that matter in an unpredictable market? Join us for a conversation on funding early-stage ventures with Women Innovate Mobile’s Kelly Hoey and venture capitalists Joy Marcus (DFJ Gotham Ventures), Donna Novitsky (Yiftee CEO), Jeanne Sullivan (StarVest Partners), Kathleen Utecht (Comcast Ventures), and Ellie Wheeler (Greycroft Partners).

Learn tools, tactics, and strategies to become better at life and business from venture capitalists, business owners, startups, executives, and successful entrepreneurs

In the 100x Entrepreneur podcast series I cover the most successful venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and professionals. They have shared in this podcast series the habits and mindset that can help you become 100x of yourself. 100x Entrepreneur podcast series by Siddhartha Ahluwalia is made for young professionals, entrepreneurs and investors. Through this podcast series I am living my purpose of positively impacting 1 Billion people, helping them grow and reaching their maximum potential i ...

Before Katrina Lake was the CEO of a public company, she was a student at Harvard Business School learning the craft. Before Peter Thiel built Paypal and eventually his capital empire, he was a lawyer and studied philosophy. Before Charles Hudson become a venture capitalist, managing his own fund at Precursor ventures, he started off as a product management intern in college. A common bind between all these people is that many have gone down a similar path, yet only a few break out like they ...