Minnie Ingersoll of TenOneTen Ventures joins Nick to discuss Embracing Failure, Capitalizing on Crisis & Building Resilience. In this episode, we cover:

• Backstory/path to Venture
• You co-founded Shift, which you scaled to $100M. What was the most unexpected/surprising aspect of leading and scaling a venture-backed startup?
• Where did you spend most of your time (and mindshare) at A vs. B vs. C/D?
• What was it like building a venture-backed startup as a woman?
• Tell us a bit about the thesis at TenOneTen.
• I was recently speaking with M.G. Siegler about the societal impacts of tech... all of which are not positive.  I know you're a mother, so this probably takes on new meaning for you... but how to you consider social and societal responsibility in your role as a tech investor?
• You've experienced early struggles in your life that have informed your approach as an investor and founder.  Can you talk about what you've been through, the impact and the perspective you've gained from it?
• Is failure acceptable?  As an investor failure makes me really uneasy and I've not had to deal with this yet with a portfolio company but I'm sure it's just a matter of time.  What's your stance on failure and how to speak with founders about it?
• You've spoken about the importance of founder resilience... Is it something you select for in investments or something you work on with existing portco founders... trying to help them build resilience?
• How are the challenges for women similar different as a founder vs. investor?
• Favorite Podcast guest?
• Best/favorite low profile investor in LA?

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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:

• Jim Kim
• Courtney Reum
• Aydin Senkut

Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.

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Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures joins Nick to discuss Raising Fund III, A Framework to De-risk Your Startup, & When to Explore vs. Exploit. In this episode, we cover:

• Give us an update on your investments at Susa since we last chatted?
• How has the thesis at Susa evolved over the past couple of years?
• Do each of the GPs at Susa have specialty areas of focus?
• This year Susa closed on 2 new funds - Susa III a $90M early stage fund, along with your first opportunity fund to which investors committed $50M. What was the elevator pitch to LPs and what worked well in the first two funds that resonated with LPs, leading to the successful raise?
• What would you have done differently in Fund I and Fund II if you could go back?
• What it takes to raise a Series A... often founders will have a singular focus on the vanity metrics -- they assume if they hit $2M in ARR they'll attract the A round at an attractive multiple from Tier 1 investors. But, we've seen this play out and it's not all that's required. Why is a singular focus on ARR a poor approach to raising money?
• Leo, you have an original framework here focused on de-risking the the major risks centers facing a startup. What are the high-level principles?
• The 9 risk centers that you've identified include Product Market Fit, Product Quality, Team, Recruiting, Sales, Market, Funding, Short-term Competition, and Long-term Competition -- can you pick one of these areas and walk us through an example?
• What are the common mistakes founding teams make with regard to these risks?
• Talk a bit about the balance between testing and execution? 
• How should founders balance figuring out the best path forward with running fast in the direction they think is best?
• Increasingly our founders have been sending us dealflow, operating as scouts, making angel investments in early stage companies. Where do you stand on this -- distraction that should be avoided or net benefit to those involved?
• In what ways have you changed most as an investor since the early days?
• One piece of advice for founders -- what is it?

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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:

• Adeyemi Ajao
• Ash Rust
• SC Moatti

Each investor discusses a portfolio company that did not survive and why it was that they failed.

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Welcome back to TFR for another Cram Session. In these special releases, we have aggregated the takeaways and tips from previous episodes. In this installment, we will be recapping the following episodes:

• 138. How to Angel Invest Like the Best, Part 1 (Jason Calacanis)
• 139. How to Angel Invest like the Best, Part 2 (Jason Calacanis)
• 142. Beacon: An Engineering Systems Approach to Investing, Part 1 (Chris Farmer)
• 143. Beacon: Modernizing the VC Firm, Part 2 (Chris Farmer)

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