Startup Funding: Insider’s Guide to Securing Monies For Your Business Venture | w/ Steven Rosenblatt [Video]

Some Future Day podcast – Episode 25: Startup Funding: Insider’s Guide to Securing Monies For Your Business Venture | w/ Steven Rosenblatt and Marc Beckman

With more than 20 years of experience scaling startups and building technology companies in the digital and mobile ecosystem, Steven Rosenblatt co-founded Oceans, a new kind of venture capital firm, in 2018 where he currently serves as General Partner.

Steven has been passionate about building early stage companies and has finally fulfilled his life long goal of starting his own company.  Prior to Oceans, Steven was President of Foursquare. During his six-year tenure at the location intelligence company, he was responsible for transitioning the company from a purely consumer-facing location platform into an enterprise business, building a multi-product strategy and growing revenue by more than 70x. This entailed overseeing all aspects of strategy and implementation of the company’s revenue streams along with overseeing its biggest customers. During his time, Foursquare won numerous awards, including being named in CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list as one of the most disruptive tech companies in the world, Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, and won Ad Age’s Best Places to work. Steven worked closely with his investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, DFJ, and Spark Capital, and has spoken at nearly 100 events.

Before joining Foursquare, Steven launched iAd, Apple’s advertising platform for brands and developers, where he managed sales, agency relations, and the creative and strategy team. Steven led the opening of Apple’s New York office and worked closely with leadership teams to build a presence in New York. Prior to this, Steven served as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales at Quattro Wireless until it was acquired by Apple in January 2010.  He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. 

In this episode, Marc and Steve talk bout venture capital funding. Steven Rosenblatt gives an inside look into Venture Capital Investments. Should you take VC funding? What are VC’s looking for? What makes a great founder? What are the opportunities emerging in AI? Learn all that and more in this episode with Steven Rosenblatt

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:20 A Journey Through Tech Evolution: From Web 1.0 to AI
03:05 Venture Capital is Not for Every Startup
04:35 What Venture Capitalists are Looking For
08:31 The Realities of Venture Funding: Equity and Expectations
10:10 Spotlight on Successful Founders: Traits and Strategies
16:41 Navigating the Venture Capital Landscape: Tips for Aspiring VCs
21:33 The Future of AI and Venture Capital
30:48 AI’s Transformative Impact Across Industries
35:09 Concluding Thoughts: The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship

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Oceans: https://oceans.ventures/

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