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Nicole Quinn on The Mentor Files Podcast with Monica Royer

71 Nicole Quinn – Partner at Lightspeed Ventures on Helping Companies Grow

Nicole Quinn is an investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focused on early stage Consumer internet and FinTech companies, having invested in companies such as Calm, Cameo, HAUS, Rothy’s, Zola, Daily …

Dan Wenhold on The Mentor Files Podcast with Monica Royer

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64 Dan Wenhold – Principal at Fifth Wall Ventures on The Retail Renaissance

Dan Wenhold is a Principal at Fifth Wall, where he co-heads the Retail & Consumer Investment team, leading investments in omnichannel retail brands and technologies. Prior to joining Fifth Wall, …

Phil Schwarz on The Mentor Files Podcast with Monica Royer

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63 Phil Schwarz – Principal at Corazon Capital on Choosing The Right Investor

Today on The Mentor Files we have Phil Schwarz, a Principal at Corazon Capital, a Chicago-based fund that focuses on investing in early stage technology companies. From 2014-2016, Phil served …

Jesse Draper on The Mentor Files Podcast with Monica Royer

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62 Jesse Draper – The Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures on The Perfect Pitch

Growing up, Jesse Draper attended a lot of conferences in the venture capital space with her dad, and these early experiences helped shape the way that she viewed her future …

Umaimah Mendhro on The Mentor Files Podcast with Monica Royer

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59 Umaimah Mendhro – The Founder of VIDA on Becoming Comfortable Being An Outsider

Growing up in Pakistan as the daughter of a doctor, Umaimah Mendhro was always encouraged to dream big, and fantasized about starting her own company and becoming the CEO. And …

Brendan Wallace on The Mentor Files Podcast

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47 Brendan Wallace – The Co-Founder of Fifth Wall on The Retail Experience

When it comes to retail, we tend to hear the same message over and over again: customers are buying off of Amazon more than ever before, and brick and mortar stores …

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44 Jason Stoffer of Maveron on What He Looks For in a Founder

As the son of two teachers, Jason Stoffer has always had a passion for education. He just may not have expected this to manifest in his current role as the …

Bobby Yazdani on The Mentor Files with Monica Royer

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23 Bobby Yazdani – The Founder of Cota Capital on Investing in + Advising Entrepreneurs

“As an entrepreneur, you have a few, go-to key advisors. For me, Bobby Yazdani rises to the top of my list. In many ways, he’s a start-up “coach”. He doesn’t lay …