Fireside with a VC hosting Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner
of Sway Ventures at Professor Romans’ class on VC at Chapman University. Discussing a wide range of topics including:
· Brian’s path to VC from Cisco to startups to venture
capital.
· Career advice for junior and senior folks to
break into a career in venture capital.
· ESG, women and minorities in venture.
· How venture capital works.
· Each stage of funding from friends and family,
pre-seed, late stage seed, series A, B and growth funding rounds and
considerations.
· Pros and cons of investing at seed vs growth rounds, ownership targets / expectations for dilution, returns, timing and risk / reward profiles.
· How Sway Ventures adds value.
· Tactics for proprietary deal flow, avoiding bidding wars with other VCs, and delivering value to portfolio companies.
· Primary sources of deal flow.
· Common threads of most successful Sway portfolio companies. What are the characteristics of winning companies?
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