May15

Randy Komisar, Partner KPCB @Investors Circle Spring Forum

This is the keynote fireside chat Randy gave with Cathy Clark, Founding Director CASE i3, Duke University @Investors Circle Spring Forum. Randy Komisar is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 2005 and...

Nov26

Interviews Venture Capital

Steve Blank: Do Dysfunctional Families Breed Entrepreneurs?

Pemo Theodore

Steve Blank spoke about his theory that dysfunctional families breed entrepreneurs @Smart$Money in Silicon Valley. I find this is a fascinating subject & had shared his original article many years ago with many folks. He also spoke about how...

Nov21

Discussion Venture Capital

Chris Yeh: Make Yourself Known to Investors Early

Pemo Theodore

I interviewed Chris Yeh @SmartMoney Silicon Valley & he kindly offered advice for women raising capital. He spoke about pattern matching that investors tend to use: “The historical pattern is that they invest in young Caucasian or South...

Nov17

Interviews Venture Capital

Christine Herron, Intel Capital: Women Have Equal Access to Capital

Pemo Theodore

Christine Herron, Managing Director Intel Capital was kind enough to give me an interview on female entrepreneurs who are raising funding. Fabulous quotes from Christine: “If you try on a pair of jeans & it doesn’t fit quite right...

May16

Interviews Venture Capital

Lynn Perkins, CoFounder Urbansitter.com & Mompreneur

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Lynn Perkins. Lynn is co-founder of UrbanSitter.com, a service that enables parents and babysitters to connect online through Facebook and their existing networks. A startup veteran, Lynn offers more than 15 years of experience...

Feb13

Interviews Venture Capital

Bjoern Herrmann: Benchmarking Female Startups

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Bjoern Herrmann. Bjoern is the 26 year-old founder of the Startup Genome. One year ago he & his team set out to find a scalable way to accelerate businesses across the world. After releasing two research reports...

Jun22

Interviews Venture Capital

Nick Flores, Investors Circle: Looking for Environmental Social Impact

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Nick Flores, Director Investment & Entrepreneur Services Investors’ Circle

Apr20

Interviews Venture Capital

Dana Mauriello: Community Funding not Crowd Funding!

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Dana Mauriello, Founder ProFounder

Mar20

Interviews Venture Capital

Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate: Women Should Just Play Entrepreneurial Game!

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Ann Miura-Ko, CoFounding Partner Floodgate

Mar16

Interviews Venture Capital

Guy Kawasaki: How Can Women Enchant Funders? Part II

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Guy Kawasaki, Founder Alltop & author Enchantment

Mar13

Interviews Venture Capital

Catherine Merigold, Vista Ventures: Dating with View to Marry Venture Capital

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Catharine Merigold, Founder Vista Ventures

Mar10

Interviews Venture Capital

Guy Kawasaki: How Can European Entrepreneurs Enchant Funders?

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Guy Kawasaki, Founder Alltop & author Enchantment

Feb10

Interviews Venture Capital

Herve Lebret: Difference in European & US Venture Capitalists

Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Hervé Lebret, Manager Innogrants @ EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), a program supporting startup creation

FinTech Silicon Valley

FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Max Krupyshev, CoFounder/CEO of the crypto payment ecosystem CoinsPaid. He is a serial entrepreneur with long-standing experience in developing fintech and crypto projects. Having entered the world of crypto in 2013, he stood at the origins of this market in Ukraine, launching a Bitcoin Foundation to promote crypto adoption in the country. Before joining CoinsPaid, he was the product owner for CEX.IO, a global cryptocurrency ecosystem and market leader. As the CEO of CoinsPaid, he sets the goal for the company to become the connecting link between crypto and traditional businesses.