Episode #87 Discussion with Catalina Daniels and James Sherman, authors of Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders published today by Harper Business. This book has 18 interviews with a compelling list of founders that all raised VC funding and managed to get to an exit via M&A or IPO. The authors and interviewees can be forgiven for all having gone to Harvard, but they do share their learnings from their experiences founding, raising, building and exiting. We discuss these learnings with the two entrepreneurs and angel authors in this episode of Fireside with a VC.

The discussion covers ideation and coming up with the killer idea, team building comparing solo founders to balanced teams, raising angel and VC funding, execution, pitfalls across the board including the risk of raising too much VC funding, complexities of M&A exits and how to position for success and guard against land mines.

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l8ZeL7CnUvk.

Find this and all episodes for Fireside with a VC here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC

Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know-Advice

Find the book here on Amazon out today: https://a.co/d/dFDHCp0.

[email protected]