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Hiring at the Pre-Seed Stage: Build Your Team Wisely
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Oct 15, 2024
The Local vs Global Optimum Problem in Startups
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Oct 15, 2024
Why Your Application Is Your First Pitch to VCs
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Oct 10, 2024
Why Everyone Agrees with My Mom’s Cat Jacket – And How to Avoid That Trap
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Sep 30, 2024
Ambiguity Tolerance in Startup Success
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Sep 5, 2024
The Critical Role of Sales Aptitude in Startup Success
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 27, 2024
Why Coachability is the Most Important Trait for Founders in a Venture Studio
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 15, 2024
How to Get Rich
Eric Niehaus - • Aug 3, 2024
Approaches to Venture Studio Valuations
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Jan 17, 2024
Unicorns vs Mountain Goats
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Nov 9, 2023
Life Lessons, Disappointment, and the Unexpected Paths We Walk
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Sep 8, 2023
10 Factors for Assessing Generative AI Startups
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • May 18, 2023
The Perfect Investor Pitch
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Mar 29, 2023
Never let a crisis go to waste
Brett Wischow - Chief Growth Officer @ Platform Venture Studio • Mar 16, 2023
Read this before you send your pitch deck to a VC
DL Daniel Leal-Bruce - Growth Marketer @ Antademy • Mar 16, 2023
The New SVB
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Mar 13, 2023
Can we save SVB?
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Mar 11, 2023
Unit Economics: Facebook
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Feb 2, 2023
Why do pivots fail?
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Jan 23, 2023
The death of distance
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Jan 6, 2023
Being a 0-to-1 Founder - Why It's Hard
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Jan 6, 2023
The Hypergrowth Part of the Learning Curve
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jan 5, 2023
Five Fatal Mistakes of Startups
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Dec 20, 2022
Three things I love about startups that correlate to life:
Derek Snook - Founder @ CoLife • Dec 15, 2022
Breaking the Low-Code Stigma
Charlie Donnelly - Former Product Developer @ Platform Venture Studio • Dec 13, 2022
Founders - Start Your Venture Now
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Dec 8, 2022
Why you should NOT work with Platform
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Dec 6, 2022
This Week
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Dec 1, 2022
A Gift for Great Entrepreneurs on this Thanksgiving 2022
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Nov 22, 2022
The Heilmeier Catechism: A Powerful Tool for Entrepreneurs and Investors
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Nov 17, 2022
Rules of Life
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Nov 10, 2022
The Two Miracle Problem
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Nov 3, 2022
Ideas for Elon @ Twitter
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • Oct 28, 2022
Almost No One Gets the Venture Elevator Pitch Right
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Oct 27, 2022
When You Develop a Breakthrough Idea, You Will Follow These Stages
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Oct 20, 2022
What are Venture Studios and Why are they critical to our Future?
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Oct 13, 2022
A Point of View on Lawyers, Stealth Mode, Patents, and Secrecy
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Oct 6, 2022
Venture Capital's Tectonic Shift
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Sep 28, 2022
Why Do Most Startups Fail to Make A Compelling Demo?
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Sep 14, 2022
Great Founders are Created, Not Born
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Sep 13, 2022
The Venture Truth Table: The Most Compelling Part of Your Venture Presentation
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Sep 7, 2022
Team Sport Culture
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Sep 6, 2022
Never Say These Five Things to a VC
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Aug 31, 2022
Scaling Early-Stage Hires
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 30, 2022
Platform Themes
Brett Wischow - Chief Growth Officer @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 25, 2022
Negotiate Using Empathy
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 24, 2022
Effective Daily Standups
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 23, 2022
How a VC Thinks in The Year 2022
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Aug 17, 2022
Motivation is essential – now more than ever.
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 16, 2022
Supercharge Your Startup with Low Code Software.
Charlie Donnelly - Former Product Developer @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 11, 2022
Is Your Venture a Feature or a Solution?
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Aug 10, 2022
Remote work is here to stay
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 9, 2022
The Five Wrong Ways to Reach Out to VCs
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Aug 3, 2022
Tips for Screening Candidates
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Aug 2, 2022
Most Technology Startup Entrepreneurs Have a Terrible Disease and Their Startups Needlessly Die
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jul 27, 2022
Virtual Interviews
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Jul 26, 2022
To Be a Great Leader: Have the Courage to Be Stupid
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jul 20, 2022
Take-home Exercises
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Jul 19, 2022
What’s the Greatest Killer of Breakthrough Ventures?
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jul 14, 2022
Work Isn’t Family
Josh Burkwist - Vice President, Talent Acquisition @ Platform Venture Studio • Jul 12, 2022
How Do You Find Your Groundbreaking Venture Opportunity? … (Almost) all you need to know in 10 minutes …
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jun 29, 2022
Introducing Your Venture Coach
Norman Winarsky - President @ Winarsky Ventures • Jun 22, 2022
Announcing the Platform Founder Climate Launchpad
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Jun 1, 2022
The Truth About Advisors
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • May 29, 2022
The Minimum Awesome Product (MAP)
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • May 25, 2022
How do I build a winning team?
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • May 20, 2022
Bricklayers or Cathedral Builders
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • May 14, 2022
Don't panic!
Tim Connors - Founder, MD @ PivotNorth Capital • May 12, 2022
Netflix will be an advertising juggernaut
Brett Wischow - Chief Growth Officer @ Platform Venture Studio • May 11, 2022
On Women's History Month
Lissette Arias - Stealth Builder of Stuff • Mar 30, 2022
On Black History Month
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Feb 14, 2022
Could the Future of Venture be Like Github?
Jeremy Burton - CEO | Founder | Managing Partner @ Platform Venture Studio • Feb 4, 2022