The Law of Startups: Recent Episodes
The Law of Startups
This week we chat with Rand Fishkin about his new company, Sparktoro, and his new book, Lost and Founder.
This week we chat with Beth Schroeder. Beth is a Co-Founder of kendr, a company that builds an app that allows employees to directly access HR or management to report (anonymously if desired) issues at work. You can find out more about kendr at http://kendr.com.
This week we chat with Brianna McDonald, the President of the Northwest Region of the Keiretsu Forum. We talk about angel investing, startups, pitches, and more. Hope you enjoy the show.
We talk about crypto, esports, and other fun and interesting things. Thank you for being on the show Rahul.
This week we chat with Richard Burton about cryptocurrency and his wallet company, Balance.io.
This week we chat with Shahid Buttar, a progressive Democrat running against Nancy Pelosi in Calfornia's 12th congressional district. Shahid is immigrant, Muslim, non-profit advocate, community organizer, constitutional scholar, poet, musician, columnist, and policy geek. He is also an advocate for open access to technology, having worked with the EFF protecting civil liberties in the digital world. We need more voices like his in our government. If what he says resonates with you, please spread the word, donate and/or volunteer. You can find more information about Shahid and his campaign at www.shahidforchange.us.
This week we chat with Cliff Webster, an Olympia lobbyist, who is called in various news stories ‘one of Washington’s most sought after and successful lobbyists’ and one of a handful of ‘lobbyists to call to get things done.’ After 35 years lobbying in the state capital, Cliff has great stories to tell about how Olympia works.
This week we chat with Chris Hopen, a Co-Founder and the CEO of fintech startup Switch, Inc. (www.switchme.com). Chris and his team are tackling some big and interesting problems with credit cards. We hope you enjoy the conversation we had with Chris.
This week we chat with Katrina Glogowski. Katrina is an active investor in the Washington State cannabis space and the founder of Green Flower Investments. We chat about the current state of the cannabis industry.
This week we chat with Bonnie Foley-Wong. Bonnie is an impact investor and the author of “Integrated Investing: Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body and Soul.”
This week we chat with Matt McIlwain, the Managing Director of the Madrona Venture Group. Matt has been a long-time member of the Seattle startup community. We talk about Madrona, the Seattle ecosystem, public policy, taxes, and what the future might hold.
This week we chat with Lowell Ricklefs, the Managing Partner of Traction M&A. In this podcast, Lowell shares some great advice on how to best position your company for sale, sharing insight on why companies buy.
This week we chat with Dan DeWolf, a securities lawyer with Mintz Levin in New York City. Dan has been involved in some great securities law projects, including the SEC no action letter for Citizen VC . Dan is also a law professor at NYU Law School where he teaches venture capital law. We chat with Dan about the securities law implications of token sales, as well as other fun and exciting securities law compliance issues.
This week we chat with Bryan Brewer. Bryan is a long-time active participant in the Seattle startup community, helping companies with their business plans and marketing strategies. On this podcast, Bryan shares his advice on what not to do when raising funds from angel investors.
This week we chat withLou Kerner, a Co-Founder and Partner at the VC firm CryptoOracle.io. Lou is a widely read writer on crypto on Medium (https://medium.com/@loukerner) and other places.
This week we chat with Kevin 0'Keefe, the Founder & CEO of LexBlog. LexBlog is the world’s largest and most comprehensive legal news and information network, drawing on the contributions of bloggers worldwide. Over 15,000 legal professionals use LexBlog’s digital design and publishing platform.
This week we chat with Sam Teden, a Director of Business Development for Frontier Capital. Frontier Capital is a growth equity firm based in Charlotte, NC.
This week we chat with Mikaela Kiner, the Founder and CEO of uniquelyHR. Mikaela launched uniquelyHR in 2015 offering flexible HR to startups and scale-ups. She and her team love helping startup leaders who care about investing in their people.
This week we chat with Christina Cyr, CEO, CTO and Founder of dTOOR, makers of The Cyrcle Phone.
This week we chat with Digital Transformation expert Mark Mueller-Eberstein. Mark is an investor, a well-known public speaker and best-selling author. He teaches at Rutgers Business School and soon through Coursera.
This week we chat with Katie Chase. Katie is long-time member of the Seattle startup community and currently the COO of Package Guard.
This week we chat with Rachel Azaroff, who specializes in helping early stage companies with marketing and telling their story.
This week we chat with Jacob Colker about the SVP Fast Pitch Forum to be held in Seattle on October 24, 2017.
This week we chat with Doug Johnson, the CEO of Jobalign, which has built an innovative candidate engagement platform from the job seeker's perspective.
This week we chat with Andrew Weinreich, a serial entrepreneur who also hosts a podcast called Predicting Our Future.
This week we chat with Bill Carleton, a long-time Seattle early stage tech company lawyer and poet.
This week we chat with Ali Amadon, the CEO and Founder of Brimbee.com, a site that allows you to easily plan to attend concerts and other events with friends.
This week we chat with a great group of Founders from Seattle: Aseem Badshah of Socedo; Gilad Berenstein of Utrip, Michael Feaster of Usermind, and Daniela Luzi Tudor of WEconnect.
This week we chat with Dan Acosta, the Founder and CEO of Globatom, a provider of cloud-based logistics software for businesses.
This week we chat with Alex Higgins, a Seattle lawyer, about non-competition agreements and related matters.
This week we chat with Leslie Feinzaig, the Founder of Venture Kits and the Female Founder Alliance.
This week we chat with Chase Nobles, one of the Co-Founders of Guide Resource Services, Inc.
This week we chat with Gilad Berenstein, the CEO and Founder of Utrip, a site that helps you make the most of your travel.
This week we chat with Berit Anderson and Brett Anderson, the Founders of Scout.ai. Scout.ai helps you think about and plan for the future.
This week we chat with Mike Moyer, the creator of the Slicing Pie method for splitting up equity amongst co-founders.
This week we chat with Shannon Swift, the CEO and Founder of Swift HR Solutions. Swift HR offers outsourced HR solutions for early stage companies.
This week we chat with Linh Ho, the Founder of omnummy, a beautiful app that connects chefs and bakers directly with people through the love of homemade food.
This week we chat with Luni Libes about investorflow.org and impact investing in general.
This week we chat with Derrick Morton, the Founder and CEO of Flowplay, a developer of browser-based virtual world technology and multi-platform games.
This week we chat with Nate Doran. Nate sources and evaluates start-ups for SWAN Venture Fund, a Seattle-based angel investor fund.
This week we chat with Jeff Galbraith. Jeff is the Founder and Publisher of three different outdoor magazines, including The FlyFish Journal.
This week we chat with Kevin Ober of Divergent Ventures, an early stage venture fund in Seattle.
This week we chat with Joe Ottinger. Joe is the Founder of the iInnovate Leadership Network, a peer CEO network for tech entrepreneurs.
This week we chat with investment banker Brad Gevertz about M&A transactions for software companies and tech startups.
This week we chat with Steve Broback and Jason Preston about the Dent Conference, which is coming up from March 19th to the 22nd 2017 in Sun Valley, Idaho. We talk with Steve and Jason about the conference and its mission to discuss how do you put a dent in the universe.
his week we chat with Dan Bernstein of the Investment Banking firm of Curom Group. Dan has a background in coding, music and game development and is not working with software companies in an investment banking role with his firm Corum Group.
This week we chat with Jon Croy, Founder and VP of Operations at Point Inside, about enterprise mobile applications and the business of indoor mapping.
This week we chat with Bob Crimmins of Startup Haven and Startup Poker 2.0. Bob is a huge part of the startup ecosystem here in Seattle and has taken his Startup Poker 2.0 event beyond Seattle and into other startup communities.
This week we chat with Mike Davidson about his work leading the design team at Twitter and what is next for him. We also dive into the role technologist and startup entrepreneurs can take to help bridge the political divide in the US and make positive contributions following our most recent Presidential election.
This week we chat with Marianne Hudson of the Angel Capital Association about startups, angel investment, and some of the policy issues that face angel investors.
This week we chat with Jay Turner, CEO of JeffMont and Redbird Sports, about the business of making golf clubs and how he is using technology to help make golfers play better and enjoy the game more.
This week we talk with M&A Advisor Nat Burgess about the investment banking business and how startups can better groom themselves for acquisition.
This week we chat about marketing for startups with Mark Kurtz, Chief Growth Officer & VP of New Media at, marketing agency, Gage.
This week we chat with JJ McKay (Founder and Publisher) and Al Olson (Cannabis Editor) of the new lifestyle and entertainment website, The Fresh Toast, with a mission that includes helping make the cannabis conversation mainstream.
This week we chat with Randall Lucas of Voyager Capital about how he got his start, and the business to business segment of the startup community.
This week we chat with Nick Hughes about his new venture, Founders Live, an online community for early stage startup founders.
This week we chat with Yi-Jain Ngo, Managing Director of the Alliance of Angels in Seattle.
This week we chat with Tarah Wheeler. Tarah is the author of the book Women in Tech and is the Website Security Czar for Semantec.
This week we chat with Michael Wu of eShares about the company and how it is working to change the way companies manage their cap table and corporate administration.
This week we chat with Janice Shade, founder of the crowd funding site Milk Money, about local crowd funding in the State of Vermont and what we can learn from how other states are handling crowd funding regulation.
This week we chat with Joe Morrison about the startup scene in Alaska and his accelerator Launch Alaska.
Join us this week as we chat with Peter Chee, founder of the Thinkspace co-working spaces in Redmond and Freemont. We chat about co-working and trend in the type of startups that are using co-working spaces.
Join us this week as we chat with Steve Banfield, the CEO of ReachNow. ReachNow is a mobility service created and owned by BMW. They offer BMWs and Mini Coopers as a car sharing service and charge by the minute for drives around town. We talk about what it is like to be a startup within the context of a large corporation, and ReachNow's work with the City of Seattle to enable ReachNow users to pickup and drop off cars from any public parking spot in Seattle.
Join us this week as we chat with author Willam Mougayar about the future of the blockchain and its various applications for business. You can find William's book, The Business Blockchain, at Amazon.
Join us this week as we chat with Mukund Mohan, VP of Engineering and Strategy at Microsoft, about coming technology, and whether chatbots are the future or just a passing trend.
This week we chat with Nathan McDonald about Keiretsu Forum and trends he is seeing in angel investing. We also talk a bit about the Keiretsu process for due diligence when selecting investments, and the upcoming Northwest Angel Capital Expo on August 18, 2016. More information about the Northwest Angel Capital Expo can be found at: http://www.k4northwest.com/events/northwest-angel-capital-expo
Join us this week as we chat with Jason Parker, Owner and President of Copperworks Distilling about Seattle as a hub for craft distilling and how he got started with Copperworks.
This week we chat with Michael Butler of Cascade Capital about investment banking and what acquirers are looking for in target companies, and how best to position your company for sale
This week we chat with Heather Redmond, a tech executive and angel investor, about how she got her start and how we can attract more people to angel investing.
This week we chat with Lauren Kickham about impact investing and her work at Vulcan helping identify opportunities for successful investments that drive positive change in the world.
This week we chat with Bryan Brewer about startup fundraising and the Minimum Fundable Company test that he developed to help companies understand if they are ready to raise money.
This week we chat with Seattle University Law Student and Entrepreneur, Miguel Willis about CaseBook, a textbook marketplace for law students.
This week we chat with startup veteran Buzz Bruggeman. We chat about his company Active Words, Microsoft's acquisition of Linkedin, the prospects of VR, and his advice for young entrepreneurs.
This week we chat with Drew Meyers about Horizon and about marketplace apps and his company's app Horizon, which let's users stay with people in their social network when traveling.
This week we chat with Brenton Webster of Fastbar Technologies. Fastbar offers a service that enables fast payments for drinks and merchandise at events using wristbands that are linked to the attendees' credit cards.
This week we chat with Shauna Causey about her work with large and small companies helping them adapt to social media, and her current work with startups and as a Board Member of KUOW.
This week we chat with Nick Tommarello of WeFunder.com about crowdfunding and WeFunder's launch of its equity crowdfunding platform, which has been enabled by federal crowdfunding laws that go into effect on May 19th 2016.
This week we chat with BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital, about revenue loans as an alternative to traditional venture financing.
This week we chat with Josh Levy, a veteran of the startup scene and creator of the GitHub document The Art of the Command Line. Join us as we talk about Josh's background in tech and how he got started. Plus we get into the pros and cons of GitHub as a (non-code) document collaboration tool.
This week we chat with Red Russak. The the past several years Red has become one of the best connected members of the startup community in Seattle. From his work with Startup Seattle that was eventually sold to the City of Seattle, to starting the New Tech Seattle and Cannabis Tech Meetups, he has made a huge contribution to the startup community here. Join us as we chat about New Tech Seattle, Red's visit to the white house, and all things Cannabis.
This week we chat with Mary Jesse, a veteran entrepreneur, and Chief Strategy Officer at VRStudios. Find out more about the current state of enterprise VR and the approach VRStudios is taking to the industry.
This week we talk with Darby Wong, Co-Founder and CEO of Clerky. Darby left his big tech law firm to start Clerky, a startup focused on automating legal document creation for startups. Darby was a great guest because of his startup experience, but also because his company focuses on something every startup can use.
This week we chat with Co-Founder of 9 Mile Labs, Sanjay Puri. 9 Mile Labs is a startup accelerator focused on enterprise startups. We talk with Sanjay about 9 Mile, the latest crop of startups to come through their program, and the unique challenges of selling into enterprise.
This week we chat with Susan Sigl of SeaPoint Ventures about how she got started as an entrepreneur, her work previously as CEO of the WTIA and her current role as Co-Founder of venture capital firm SeaPoint Ventures.
This week we chat with Forrest Gibson about all things Kickstarter. Forrest has been involved with some fairly large and successful Kickstarter campaigns, including work with Planetary Resources on their funding of the Arkyd space telescope.
This week we chat with Kara Jacinta about her work helping train veterans to code using a novel approach involving bio-feedback.
This week we chat with J. Paul Hammann of Ombitron about the Internet of Things and his company's work making connected devices more accessible to enterprise customers.
This week we chat with Susie Lee. Accomplished artist and founder of the dating site Siren.com.