482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce...

<p>A Trump executive order is giving retail investors more access to private markets. Is that a golden opportunity — or fool’s gold?</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://law.duke.edu/fac/defontenay/">Elisabeth de Fontenay,</a> professor of law at D ... Show More

<p>Thoroughbred auction prices keep setting records. But tracks are closing, gambling revenues are falling, and the sport is increasingly reliant on subsidies. Is that the kind of long shot anybody wants? (Part three of a series, “<a href="https://freakonomics.com/the-horse-is-us ... Show More

<p>The world has changed a good bit since <i>Freakonomics</i> was first published. In this live anniversary episode, Stephen Dubner tells Geoff Bennett of <i>PBS NewsHour </i>everything he has learned since then. Happy birthday, <i>Freakonomics.</i></p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOU ... Show More

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/wquist">Will Quist</a> is a Partner @ <a href="https://slow-prod.herokuapp.com/">Slow Ventures</a>. Over the last decade, the team at Slow Ventures have invested in the earliest rounds of over 500 companies including Ro ... Show More

Are you confused by venture capital? Do you wonder if it's right for your business? (Spoiler: It's not for everyone.) In this episode Anu Duggal and Sutian Dong break down the complex world (and acronyms!) of venture capital, and explain how the Female Founders Fund is differ ... Show More

How are loans and grants distributed? And how high are the returns?According to the IMF, Africa’s growth prospect will be amongst the highest in the world and sectors such as fintech and telecoms are the drivers of the current economic growth, offering huge investment opportuniti ... Show More

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/sgblank">Steve Blank</a> is one of the leading luminaries of Silicon Valley, credited with being foundational to the creation of The Lean Startup movement and having spent the last 9 years at Stanford University as a pr ... Show More

For many on the right, Arif Naqvi epitomises the idea of the 'woke capitalist'. The private equity multimillionaire has promoted sustainable development and donated heavily to the Gates Foundation to invest in healthcare, but now awaits possible extradition to the US on fraud cha ... Show More

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/sacca">Chris Sacca</a> is the Founder and Chairman @ <a href= "https://lowercasecapital.com/">Lowercase Capital</a>, one of the <a href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/03/25/how-venture-cowboy-chris-sacca ... Show More

Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says there's a lot about navigating the venture capital world that entrepreneurs don't understand. Some can't figure out how to get in the door. Others fail to deliver persuasive pitches. Many don't know how the deals and rela ... Show More

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RWong">Rich Wong</a> is a General Partner @ <a href="https://www.accel.com/">Accel</a>, one of the world's leading venture funds with investments in the likes of Dropbox, Slack, Facebook, Deliveroo and Atlassian, just to name a few. As for Rich, Ri ... Show More

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<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinfw/">Justin Fishner-Wolfson</a> is founder and the managing partner of <a href= "https://137ventures.com/">137 Ventures</a>, a growth-stage venture firm that provides customized liquidity solutions to foun ... Show More