Mark Flickinger - Which Fire Do We Pour The Gasoline On?
My guest today is Mark Flickinger, General Partner and Chief Operating Officer at BIP Capital and BIP Ventures, a major VC firm based in Atlanta Georgia, where he’s very much focused on fundraising and investor success. Before focusing on the provision of venture capital, he’s worked at the coal face with startup consulting firm 4th Strand and a biotech startup developing therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases. He recently served as the Chairman of the Board for Venture Atlanta and sits on the board of several other companies. He has an MBA from The University of North Carolina and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Princeton. Want to learn from a private equity expert? Join me on my next two day online 8 Figure Masterclass at Eight Figure Journey
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James Church - Best Selling Author of 'Investable Entrepreneur'
My guest today is James Church, author of the Amazon best-selling book, Investable Entrepreneur: How to convince investors your business is the one to back, and co-founder and COO of Robot Mascot, a global award-winning investment readiness agency.He’s on a mission to stop great ideas failing due to poor communication and is frustrated to see so many founders struggle to raise the capital they need because they’re unable to convince investors their business is the one to back. He’s won the Business Advisor of the Year award at the Growing Business Awards and has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and Forbes. He’s run mentoring sessions at national and international incubators and delivered lectures for The Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Design Museum and Regents University London. Want to learn from a private equity expert? Join me on my next two day online 8 Figure Masterclass at Eight Figure Journey
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The World's First Digital Asset Fund of Funds with Kevin Ballard and Manuel Du Luque
In this episode we’ll hear from two business partners, one from the Spanish island of Majorca and the other from that financial hot spot in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man. They have very different backgrounds but a shared love of all things financial. Unusually for two guys steeped in the traditional, regulated financial world, they were early adopters of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and eventually decided to launch the world’s first digital asset fund of funds under their Block Asset Management company. Their names are Kevin Ballard and Manuel Du Luque. Want to learn from a private equity expert? Join me on my next two day online 8 Figure Masterclass at Eight Figure Journey
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David Fleck - Silicon Valley's Most Patient V.C?
David Fleck is at the forefront of the technology that will shape our future in the areas of health, life sciences and clean energy. Through close ties with the California Institute Of Technology his venture capital firm, Freeflow, invests in everything from drug discovery to space technology and provides all kinds of ongoing support to its portfolio companies. His career has included consultancy with PWC and Bain, product management at Google and building and selling audience engagement platform Disqus. Outside of business he is heavily involved with Family Promise, a charity helping homeless children across America. His firm has a unique way of working with founders. often spending the best part of a year getting to know them before making a decision to invest. Then, he's happy to wait for 7-10 years for an exit. All of which surely qualifies him as the most patient VC in Silicon Valley! Want to learn from a private equity expert? Join me on my next two day online 8 Figure Masterclass at Eight Figure Journey
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Turning Real Estate Into Liquid Money with Antony Abell
It's very rare to find an entrepreneur who is shaking up a major asset class through new technology and new thinking. In today's episode we meet just such a man in Canadian Antony Abell, CEO of TPX Property Exchanges. He's lived in the UK for many years, including a spell in the army and as an Olympic skiing coach before turning to the business world. He's been involved with 24 companies in 28 years and his latest venture is the most disruptive yet - turning property into liquid funds through TPX Property Exchanges. The London exchange is the first to launch, with 20 other target sites around the world planned for the next 18 months. The social and economic impact of this platform will be huge, enabling young families to buy half price homes and the asset rich and cash poor to achieve instant liquidity without the compound interest of equity release or lifetime mortgages. Want to learn from a private equity expert? Join me on my next two day online 8 Figure Masterclass at Eight Figure Journey
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