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This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.----------------------------------------Welcome to Episode 84 of the Investing in Impact podcast. Today, I'm joined by Daryn Dodson, Founder and Managing Director of Illumen Capital, an impact fund of funds committed to advancing gender and racial equity in financial markets.Illumen Capital invests in leading growth, private equity, and venture impact funds, providing fund managers with targeted coaching and tools to reduce implicit biases in decision-making.Previously, Daryn consulted for the Board of Calvert Funds, a $15 billion impact investing pioneer, managing a global portfolio of over 40 funds across five continents, encompassing more than 350 companies.He also served as Director of University and Corporate Partnerships at The Idea Village, where he secured over 100,000 hours and $2 million in resources from private equity firms, business schools, and Fortune 500 companies to rebuild New Orleans' entrepreneurial ecosystem after Hurricane Katrina.He serves on the Board of Directors for Ben & Jerry's, the CFA Institute's Future of Finance Advisory Council, the New Venture Fund, and the Impact Assets Investment Committee.Daryn earned his M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he served on the Dean's Management Board, and his A.B. from Duke University. His work reflects a steadfast commitment to equity and measurable impact in financial markets and beyond.About Illumen CapitalIllumen Capital, an impact-focused fund of funds, is on a mission to challenge the status quo. By reducing racial and gender bias in financial decision-making, Illumen Capital aims to create a more inclusive and optimized asset management industry—one that not only drives equity but also enhances financial performance.Illumen Capital partners with institutional investors to empower the next generation of diverse-led venture and private equity fund managers.Their mission is rooted in the belief that an equitable asset management industry will be the cornerstone of a more just and prosperous future.Why it matters:Racial and gender bias limits potential. Research led by Illumen Capital and Stanford SPARQ revealed that race influences the decision-making of professional investors. Alarmingly, high-performing Black-led funds are often rated more harshly on subjective criteria such as competence and social fit.Missed opportunities: This bias not only perpetuates inequities but causes investors to unknowingly overlook high-potential investment opportunities. ----------------------------------------Thrive in the Impact Economy.Join 20k+. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for the latest news, exclusive interviews, and curated products that drive the Impact Economy. Our mission is to highlight and celebrate the founders, creators, investors, and conscious brands shaping the future of conscious business and philanthropy.To learn more, please visit causeartist.com

Populism, MAGA, and Trump: Insights from Media and the Campaign Trail

It is Memorial Day, it's a day to remember and honor those that paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy the freedoms America provides. So while you're out with friends and family, I hope you're taking the time to honor those that paid the ultimate sacrifice for this country. This episode shines a light on left-wing mega donors like never before. Scott Walter and his colleagues at Capital Research Center expose a major top-down player called Arabella. Scott's new book about Arabella explains how a radicalized Eric Kessler got his sugar baby Hansjörg Wyss to fund his first progressive movement. From then, the Arabella network has created or associated with 501(c)3 and (c)4 groups around the country to focus on everything from environmental causes to abortion to DEI. Scott exposes how billionaires use foundations as their mechanism of enforcement. Arabella and their "sister" funds such as Sixteen Thirty and New Venture Fund are responsible for most of the attacks on Trump, targeting his judicial nominees and furthuring abortion-on-demand causes. Did you know that Warren Buffett and the $4.7 billion dollars he passed through his Hopewell Fund is the single greatest contributor to abortion and abortion related issues? George Soros is as awful as the rumors about him but the truth is, the Left has many, many Soros types. Make sure to watch this episode because Scott has done his research and is naming names! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode shines a light on left-wing mega donors like never before. Scott Walter and his colleagues at Capital Research Center expose a major top-down player called Arabella. Scott's new book about Arabella explains how a radicalized Eric Kessler first got his sugar baby Hansjörg Wyss to fund his first progressive movement. From then, the Arabella network has created or associated with 501(c)3 and (c)4 groups around the country to focus on everything from environmental causes to abortion to DEI. Scott exposes how billionaires uses foundations as their mechanism of enforcement. Arabella and their "sister" funds such as Sixteen Thirty and New Venture Fund are responsible for most of the attacks on Trump, targeting his judicial nominees and furthuring abortion-on-demand causes. Did you know that Warren Buffett and the $4.7 billion dollars he passed through his Hopewell Fund is the single greatest contributor to abortion and abortion related issues? George Soros is as awful as the rumors about him but the truth is, the Left has many, many Soros types. Make sure to watch this episode because Scott has done his research and is naming names! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opening arguments at Supreme Court immunity hearing, Kagan makes point about Nuclear secrets. Jackson's ignorance is showing, Feminists vs Fascists, SC appears skeptical of Trump's arguments as Arabella elevated Jackson speaks, who funds and supports college demonstrations? New Venture Fund dispensing funds, Flynn case dismissed, DJT comments in NY trial, DJT on the streets with the people of NY and much much more...

Does the term Policy Advocate conjure up the image of a chef? Today we're speaking with Katherine Miller, Founding Executive Director of the Chef Action Network, and author of the book "At The Table, The Chef's Guide to Advocacy". Katherine formerly served as the Vice President of Impact at the James Beard Foundation and serves as an adjunct professor at the Culinary Institute of America. She's worked for 20 years at the intersection of policy, politics, and social impact, and says chefs have an important role to play in this space. Interview Summary   Chefs are more and more visible in this advocacy and policy space. I assume that they've been doing this for a long time, but you see more attention to it now, which is nice. Let's talk about sort of its fundamental concept of chefs being involved in the food system at this level. Why do you think chefs and other people in the restaurant industry are equipped to make the food system more just and sustainable?   I think that chefs are some of the greatest translators, right? Chefs, as we know them, are the people who cook us delicious meals or host us for events in our lives. But in reality they are taking the ingredients from the farmers and producers and fishermen and translating them to the plate to make them interesting and enjoyable for all of us, right? And the food system is incredibly complicated. It is deeply rooted. The root system overlaps and is incredibly complex. It's off-putting for people to think about how they might get involved in food policy or even understand the different controls on our food. Chefs can really help tell a better story, right? They can take the what's happening in the field and on the boats, and then they can put it on our plate, and they can help explain to us the stories behind all the food, how it's grown, the things that we should be interested in, the decisions that we should make differently. I think they're the ultimate translators and making the world a more delicious place.   That makes perfect sense! What inspired you to write your book, "At The Table"?   I've been working with the chef community for 10 years, first as a consultant and the founder of the Chef Action Network, and then working with the James Beard Foundation as the first vice president of advocacy and impact for the foundation. Then, after leaving the foundation, continued to work with organizations who are really interested in helping chefs step into policy arenas on things like healthy soils or food waste or medically-tailored meals. All those things are impacted by the policies that our state houses and our federal houses. And it's hard. The restaurant industry is enormous. There are 11 million or so restaurant employees. There are tens of thousands of people who are considered chefs or leaders in the kitchen, and we weren't going to reach them one Chef Bootcamp for Policy and Change at a time. You know, when I left the foundation in 2020 at the sort of tail end of the first year of COVID, we had over 1000 people on the waiting list to get into the Chef's Bootcamp for Policy and Change. We knew we were on to something, but we didn't really have the capacity to expand at scale. So, you know the great thing about a book is it can reach many chefs, culinary students, restaurant workers, farmers. And that's the other thing - I think there's a sort of duality to this idea of chef. It's really anybody who's a food system leader, anybody who is really interested in how the policies control our food system. I'm very excited to have a book out because I wanted this message and the examples and the tips and tools to reach the biggest audience that it could.   Boy, it's nice to hear there's so much interest among chefs and work of this type. I'm interested in whether this kind of thing is finding its way into culinary education. You have a position at the Culinary Institute of America, highly visible place. Is this the sort of thing that's showing up in discussions in culinary schools and classes and the training people receive?   More and more. I really credit Robert Egger for so many things in life, the great food system advocate and co-founder of DC Central Kitchen. But Robert was one of the first to write an op-ed that was like, culinary education should include advocacy, right? Because in culinary schools all over the country and all over the world, we teach people about flavor, we teach people about dish composition, we teach people about cleaning their station, and being a good person on the line, right? But we don't teach them about sustainability and that concerted way, we don't teach them business school skills and we don't really teach them about policies that impact their business, their sourcing, the way they run their restaurants. So that is growing. I think it's also a benefit of this next generation of chefs and consumers even who are really leading with their values. They want to see people step into this arena. The Edelman Trust Survey, which comes out every year, shows that food systems and food communities are some of the most trusted networks in the world. These leaders of that community have sort of a right, but also an obligation to get involved. The thing I like about the book and the thing I love teaching is that it's easy to do. It's not as difficult as you think it is, but I really think that the students and the consumers are demanding a sort of values-based approach. We're going to see all of the culinary schools add at least one class, if not more, of this type of training, I think in the future.   Let's go a little bit deeper into the bootcamp. You've directed the James Beard Foundation's Chefs Bootcamp for Policy and Change. Can you describe what goes on at the camp, and how this has affected your view on the chef's role in the advocacy world?   The Chef's Bootcamp for Policy and Change was an idea that Chef Michel Nischan and a James Beard trustee by the name of Eric Kessler had the idea for way back in 2012. They found me because I am a experienced trainer and facilitator. I've worked all over the world with, whether it be land advocates in Nigeria, health experts in China, folks in Australia, democracy in Lebanon, and they approached me and they said, “Hey, we have this idea. Chefs are highly visible. They are celebrities in their own right and we want to help them better use their voice.” That first bootcamp took place in July of 2012. We trained the first 15 chef advocates, and the penny sort of dropped for me that this was a community who are sitting in every single street corner. They have visible storefronts in every single community in America. They are trusted not to kill us, right? They are trusted to deliver something delicious and an amazing experience. They are networked heavily through the producers, both within their region and their city, but also globally in terms of what they source and how they buy. They have an authentic connection to fans, right? The bootcamp, which still continues to this day, trains 15 to 20 advocates at a time. The training module is still the same it was with a few tweaks in 2012. We really put them through their paces on introducing them to this food system and the complications of the food system. They also did role plays and learned techniques on how to be a better advocate. So how to create a message, how to reach out to their networks, how to use their social media profiles to talk about advocacy. And also, how to deal with the sort of haters of the world who might be like, "Shut up and get back to the kitchen". So, a little bit of that. Then the other piece that is so important to the entire food movement is created community amongst themselves. Every bootcamp ends with a dinner cooked by the chefs, for the chefs together with what they source on the working agricultural farm that would take them to. That community then spills out and it grows and grows. So exponentially, you could grow from 15 to 150 to 1000. They take it with them, they teach their staff, they host their own bootcamps or programming in their own cities. So, the bootcamp is one piece of it, but it's really about giving people the tips and tools they need to be an advocate, and then creating community amongst the chefs themselves and also their staffs and their greater community, and really just putting them into the places where they can use their voice to make a difference.   You know, it sounds really exciting! So, you have talked us through the process of how this education and training on advocacy and policy takes place. But let's talk a little bit more about the issues. Let's just say the Chef's Bootcamp was happening today and we walked in and we could overhear the discussions. What would we hear people talking about? Would they be talking about how children can be educated about food, about sustainable food systems and regenerative agriculture? Would they be talking about? state law, federal policy? What kind of issues would be important to them today?   Today? The Farm Bill, right? Chefs do advocacy in three places really. They do it on the table, right, through what they source, how they market to their customers, the types of labor practices they have in their own restaurant, like that is a self a form of advocacy. They do it within their community. So, a lot of chefs will get involved with local feeding organizations, will get involved with school gardens, things that they can put their hands on and bring people into their restaurant or visit regularly. I see a lot of community interaction. Then there's the hard and long work of state and federal policy reform. We are not going to be able to just uproot our entire food system and throw it out the window. Policy reform is gradual. It takes time and it takes a concerted effort. So, throughout each bootcamp or throughout different programs that I do, say with the Natural Resources Defense Council or programs that are run through No Kid Hungry, where alumni of the bootcamp have really gone on to shine is this federal policy piece. If you walked into a bootcamp today, you'd probably be hearing information about the Farm Bill, the impact of the Farm Bill on local regional food systems, the impact of the Farm Bill on food as medicine programs and SNAP programs, and really looking for ways a chef or a food system advocate could use their voice effectively to make the case for greater funding, to protect funding, to really encourage more progressive policies.   That sounds good. You brought up the Farm Bill, so let's talk about that in a little more detail. The last Farm Bill was passed in 2018, so it needs to be passed again now and reauthorized. Vast amounts of money are at stake for this. You mentioned that chefs can advocate for protecting funds that have been used in the past for particular purposes, and also argue for new uses of funds. What would be some of the top priorities? You kind of alluded to several of these, but tell us a little bit more specifically about what the chefs might be fighting for.   The Farm Bill is our food bill. I think we don't say that often enough. I think when we look at how the Farm Bill is constructed, we are looking at programs that are everything from specialty crops, i.e., fruits and vegetables, to the Supplemental Nutrition Programs that help people in times of need to not go hungry, to food as medicine programs that help us reach vulnerable populations with more fruits and vegetables at farmer's markets or medically tailored meals in hospitals or in systems. The Farm Bill reaches into all of those things. One thing I like to say about chefs is they're not monolithic. They're not all running around saying this thing. They are well-informed narrators and translators of a complicated food system and encouraging people to pay more attention to things like the Farm Bill and more things like the political nature of our food system.   If we want in the long term to redirect subsidies to support more climate smart agriculture, or help us have local and resilient food systems, that's going to happen through the Farm Bill. I was just recently with a bunch of chefs who were on Capitol Hill talking about healthy soil and the need to incentivize farmers through a bill called the Cover Act to help them change growing practices so that their soils would be healthier, and they could do more regenerative agriculture techniques. In a few weeks, there will be folks here really advocating to protect SNAP benefits. I think as we see a growing partisan divide and the growing divide on how to spend government money, SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is always going to be a constant target of that.   There's a great anecdote in the book by chef Elle Simone, who talks very eloquently and proudly about the fact that at an early point in her life, she took SNAP benefits. She was broke, and she was financially insecure, and she needed help. She took those SNAP benefits at a time when she needed them, and they helped her complete her education and complete her path to the future. Now, she's a cookbook author and the first woman of color to be on America's Test Kitchen. She is a known celebrity chef around the country, and she wouldn't be there, she will always say, if it hadn't been for SNAP. So, somebody like Elle will come to Capitol Hill and tell that story to put a human face on a program that is often demonized by people who think there are other ways to spend money rather than make sure that people don't come hungry.   You know, there's a lot built into what you just said on lots of different levels. SNAP program, relationships with farmers, et cetera. Let's talk about farmers for a moment. I know that chefs have, of course, always had a strong relationship with farmers because that's where they secure what they serve in their restaurants, but it sounds like it's going beyond that. This alliance now is out there in the bigger policy arena around issues of regenerative agriculture and things like that. I'm assuming you've seen some interesting cases of farmers and the chef community coming together to argue for a common purpose.   Chefs and farmers are natural partners. There wouldn't be any food on our plates if there weren't for farmers. The types of food and the types of vegetables and meat, and even seafood, fishermen, the world, you wouldn't be able to put things on the plate without those humans. They produce amazing, delicious food, and they do it in ways that are better for the environment. It's nutritionally dense. So, they're a natural partnership, but they haven't always worked together. In part, because they had completely opposite schedules. The farmers are up at 5:00 AM and go to bed at 2:00 PM and you know, chefs are out until 5:00 AM, and at work, they haven't always been able to come together. But more intentionally, organizations are bringing them together. The Natural Resource Defense Council is working a lot with zero food print as a chef-led organization. Those two organizations are working in deep partnership to put chefs and farmers together regularly on Capitol Hill or in state houses, talking about things like the Cover Act, talking about regenerative agriculture, talking about the health that's contained in our soil and how that translates into healthier and more delicious food. They are natural partners, and I'm really excited that they seem to be coming together more on common issues that really are about putting healthy and delicious things in front of us all.   Well, it makes good sense that those kind of partnerships have evolved to where they are now. Let me ask you a final question. Well, let's just say I'm a chef and I meet you or people involved in this kind of sphere of work, and I'm thinking, boy, my life is pretty crazy. It's a high stress life, very long hours, lots of decisions to be made and people to supervise, and all kinds of stuff going on in these restaurants. How in the world would I have time to do anything like this? And then also, what are the actionable steps that such a chef might take to help create a better food system?   It's a great question, right? We're all really busy people. Everybody's calendar is full, whether it's kids or parents to take care of, whether it's jobs, whether it's volunteering, and we all look at our calendars, and we're like. How could I possibly fit one thing else in here? The number one tip I give chefs and anybody who really wants to be an advocate is you learn to say no first. You learn to look at what you care most about and decide that that is the thing that you are going to focus on. And all the rest of it, you're going to say no very politely to. So, in the beginning of work with chefs, I did an audit of dozens of restaurants and essentially chefs were being asked to donate on average about $50,000 each year to dozens of organizations in their local community and even nationally. When we think about that from a fundraising perspective, if you donated $50,000 to one organization, you would be a top donor to that organization. You would have a totally different relationship with them. I really encourage all of us, but especially the chef community, to take a deep look at the issue that drives you most, whether it's hunger, the environment, ending violence in our communities, mentorship, whatever it is. And really, one, pick that issue and prioritize that issue. Get to know the organizations and the experts that are already working in it, right? We all think that we're so smart and we must be the first people to have thought about X, Y, and Z, and you're not, right? There are lots of experts in the field, and there are now even experts in the field of chef advocacy. There are dozens of organizations actually in the appendix of my book that point you in the direction of different issues that you might want to get involved in. So, get to know the experts. And number three, take a baby step. Schedule an appointment with an organization, sign a petition, do some research. Just take a baby step into, okay, now I'm going to learn more. Now I'm going to do something. And it doesn't have to be a big thing. And then your advocacy will go from there. I'm a political activist at heart, and I want everybody to make sure that they're registered to vote, and vote because that is the ultimate form of advocacy and probably the biggest baby step that we can all take once we've picked an issue and become informed on that issue. There are other tips and tools in the book. I'm all about opening conversation, not closing conversation. So I really encourage people through the book and through some exercises in it to figure out their own narrative that opens conversation, their own set of questions that turns them into sort of active listeners and not lecturers. I think food certainly has enough judgment in it that it doesn't need advocates pointing fingers at each other, talking about how one's point of view is better than the others. It's really simple to get involved. The first step is say no. Pick the one issue that's most important to you. Do the work and get to know the issues and the experts. Take a baby step, register to vote, vote, and then you can grow from there.   Bio   Named an industry leader and “Fixer” by Grist magazine and called one of the most innovative women in food and beverage by Fortune and Food & Wine magazines, Katherine Miller was the founding executive director of the Chef Action Network and the former vice president of impact at the James Beard Foundation. She was the first food policy fellow at American University's Sine Institute of Policy and Politics and is a Distinguished Terker Fellow at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. Miller has built a 20-year career working at the intersections of policy, politics, and social impact. She develops and manages award-winning campaigns, trains activists around the world, and helps deliver millions of supporters – and hundreds of millions in funding – to efforts focused on global health, climate change, gender bias and violence, and food system reform. She is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) and serves on the Board of Directors of both the New Venture Fund and Re:Her DC. Miller is an adjunct professor at the Culinary Institute of America. She lives in Washington DC, on the land of the Anacostan and Nacotchtank people, with her husband, Lou, and their cat, Lily.

The Arabella Advisors-managed network of liberal dark money groups that includes the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund continues to attract attention. Not all of it is good: The District of Columbia Attorney General subpoenaed information from Arabella Advisors concerning the electoral activities of the Arabella-managed nonprofits, and […]

The Arabella Advisors-managed network of liberal dark money groups that includes the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund continues to attract attention. Not all of it is good: The District of Columbia Attorney General subpoenaed information from Arabella Advisors concerning the electoral activities of the Arabella-managed nonprofits, and it was alleged that the father of disgraced cryptocurrency trader and Democratic political donor Sam Bankman-Fried sat on an advisory board at Arabella. It was also reported that a project of the Arabella-managed Hopewell Fund called the Heat Initiative is pushing Apple to scan every photograph on every iPhone. Joining me to discuss these latest Arabella-related developments are my colleagues Parker Thayer and Sarah Lee.Links:NEW GROUP ATTACKING IPHONE ENCRYPTION BACKED BY U.S. POLITICAL DARK-MONEY NETWORKDC Attorney General Subpoenas Arabella Advisors' Dark Money Network Following Free Beacon ReportLawsuit Unearths Link Between Dem Megadonor SBF, Parents, and Democratic Dark Money Behemoth Arabella AdvisorsFollow us on our Socials:Twitter: @capitalresearchInstagram: @capitalresearchcenterFacebook: www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenterYouTube: @capitalresearchcenter

Peabody Award Honoree, ACLU, Emory University, C-Span, Writer, HistorianThe United States Supreme Court decided the redistricting case that could have significant nationwide implications. In Milligan v. Merrill (now known as Merrill v. Milligan before the Supreme Court), in which LDF is delivering oral arguments, the Court determined Alabama's new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 by placing Black voters into legislative districts in a way that dilutes their political power.Yet the Alabama State Legislature Decided in July of 2023 Not to Vote for the Supreme Courts decision that Alabama have two minority Legislative Districts even though The Capital of Montgomery & Birmingham are predominately Black.I am a proud resident of the Washington D.C. Metro Area & know of the redistricting process, having learned this issue as a kid thru Gerrymandering. I bounced thru several district grade schools for years!Steve Suitts is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University, a position he has held for the last twenty years, and has been chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, a post he held for five years; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council for eighteen years; and program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation for nearly twenty years.He is the author of Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement and Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution. He was the executive producer and one of the writers of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award for its history of the Southern civil rights movement.© 2023 All Rights Reserved© 2023 Building Abundant Success!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

In this episode of the Middle Tech Podcast, Logan and Evan discuss the recent changes to the Reddit API, Intel's groundbreaking quantum chip, and the opening of Shadow Ventures' operations in Louisville. We explore the controversies surrounding Reddit's API changes and the implications for AI companies training on its data. We also delve into Intel's Tunnel Falls quantum chip and its potential to revolutionize computing. Lastly, we discuss Shadow Ventures' entry into Louisville's tech scene and their efforts to leverage technology in the construction industry. On our AI Edge segment, we bring you an interesting story about Mercedes adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system. We discuss the implications of this integration and the future of AI in the automotive industry. 0:00 - Intro 1:50 - Reddit's API changes 4:16 - Intel's Quantum Chip 7:20 - New Venture Fund in Louisville 9:07 - Mercedes Adds ChatPGT 10:55 - AI Tip of the Week Visit us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MiddleTech.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Follow Us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Logan's Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Evan's Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Middle Tech is proud to be supported by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KY Innovation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bolt Marketing⁠

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Peabody Award Honoree, ACLU, Emory University, C-Span, Writer, HistorianThe United States Supreme Court will soon consider a major redistricting case that could have significant nationwide implications. In Milligan v. Merrill (now known as Merrill v. Milligan before the Supreme Court), in which LDF is delivering oral arguments, the Court will determine whether Alabama's new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 by placing Black voters into legislative districts in a way that dilutes their political power. I am a proud resident of the Washington D.C. Metro Area & know of the redistricting process, having learned this issue as a kid thru Gerrymandering. I bounced thru several district grade schools for years!Steve Suitts is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University, a position he has held for the last twenty years, and has been chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, a post he held for five years; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council for eighteen years; and program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation for nearly twenty years. He is the author of Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement and Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution. He was the executive producer and one of the writers of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award for its history of the Southern civil rights movement.© 2022 All Rights Reserved© 2022 Building Abundant Success!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Sam Wooley of the University of Texas School of Journalism discusses journalism, propaganda, and ethics. Our conversations unpacks the definition of propaganda and how today's technology fuels propaganda and influence. Research Question: Encrypted messaging apps (like WhatApp, Signal, Discord, etc) are becoming more popular, and incubation of disinformation campaigns happens in those spaces. How does disinformation and propaganda spread in encrypted spaces? How will we study propaganda in transport-layer encrypted spaces? Resources: Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned #112 Jake Sotiriadis on the Value Proposition of Future Studies #107 Vanessa Otero on News Ecosystem Health #14 BDJ on Threatcasting #116 Matt Jackson on Social Learning and Game Theory Sam Wooley's Bio Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Yellow Journalism Bots by Nick Monaco, Samuel Woolley Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity by Sam Woolley Center for Media Engagement at University of Texas Link to full show notes and resources https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-117 Guest Bio:  Samuel C. Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and an assistant professor, by courtesy, in the School of Information--both at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement (CME) at UT.  Woolley is currently a research associate at the Project for Democracy and the Internet at Stanford University. He has held past research affiliations at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California at Berkeley.  Woolley's research is focused on how emergent technologies are used in and around global political communication. His work on computational propaganda—the use of social media in attempts to manipulate public opinion—has revealed the ways in which a wide variety of political groups in the United States and abroad have leveraged tools such as bots and trending algorithms and tactics of disinformation and trolling in efforts to control information flows online. His research on digital politics, automation/AI, social media, and political polarization is currently supported by grants from by Omidyar Network (ON), the Miami Foundation, and the Knight Foundation. His past research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, the New Venture Fund for Communications, and others. His latest book, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, was released in January 2020 by PublicAffairs (US) and Octopus/Endeavour (UK). It explores the ways in which emergent technologies--from deep fakes to virtual reality--are already being leveraged to manipulate public opinion, and how they are likely to be used in the future. He proposes strategic responses to these threats with the ultimate goal of empowering activists and pushing technology builders to design for democracy and human rights.  He is currently working on two other books. Manufacturing Consensus (Yale University Press) explores the ways in which social media, and automated tools such as bots, have become global mechanisms for creating illusions of political support or popularity. He discusses the power of these tools for amplification and suppression of particular modes of digital communication, building on Herman and Chomsky's (1988) integral work on propaganda. His other book, co-authored with Nicholas Monaco, is titled Bots (Polity) and is a primer on the ways these automated tools have become integral to the flow of all manner of information online. Woolley is the co-editor, with Philip N. Howard (Oxford) of Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media, released in 2018 by the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series at Oxford University Press. This volume of country specific case studies explores the rise of social media--and tools like algorithms and automation--as mechanisms for political manipulation around the world. He has published several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and white papers on emergent technology, the Internet and public life in publications such as the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, the International Journal of Communication, A Networked Self: Platforms, Stories, Connections, The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in an Automated 21st Century, The Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security, and Can Public Diplomacy Survive the Internet? Bots, Echo Chambers and Disinformation.   Woolley is the founding director of the Digital Intelligence Lab, a research and policy oriented project at the Institute for the Future—a 50-year-old think-tank located in Palo Alto, CA. Before this he served as the director of research at the National Science Foundation and European Research Council supported Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is a former resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative and a former Belfer Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Science and technology. He is a former research fellow at Jigsaw, Google's think-tank and technology incubator, at the Center Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington's Schools of Law and Information, and at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University.  His public work on computational propaganda and social media bots has appeared in venues including Wired, the Guardian,TechCrunch, Motherboard, Slate, and The Atlantic. For his research, Woolley has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian and on PBS' Frontline, BBC's News at Ten, and ABC's Today. His work on computational propaganda and bots has been presented to members of the U.S. Congress, the U.K. Parliament, NATO, and others. His Ph.D. is in Communication from the University of Washington. His website is samwoolley.org and he tweets from @samuelwoolley.  About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

It was founded by former Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler. The Arabella network spent nearly $1.2 billion in 2020. Organizations incubated by and affiliated with Arabella Advisors include the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, and the Windward Fund. It was founded by former Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler. The Arabella network spent nearly $1.2 billion in 2020. Organizations incubated by and affiliated with Arabella Advisors include the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the New Venture Fund --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/native901/message

Founders need a deep purpose – a north star – to help them navigate the murky waters of founderhood.Our Guest, Kevin Withane, is passionate about purpose-driven startups that make the world a better place. He's the founder of Diversity X, a pre-seed to seed-stage venture capital fund (in the works) to support UK and European-based underestimated founders of purpose-led startups and tech startups focused on solving issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.While he's building Diversity X, Kevin is a purpose-led senior lawyer and ethics and compliance executive at an FTSE 250 company. An independent non-executive director of various private companies, Kevin also sits on the advisory board of several startups, and he hosts the Cocktail Leadership podcast. Kevin has lived and worked in the UK, China, Hong Kong, Russia and the United States as well as traveling extensively across Europe and Asia where he has gained deep insights into the shift towards human leadership and the demand for business to align their purpose with making the world a better place – for everyone. Tap this link to learn more about Diversity X: https://www.diversityx.vc/ Connect with Kevin everywhere he glows here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwithane/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinWithaneCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyons00:00 - meet Kevin Withane!08:00 - Kevin's first entrepreneurial adventure11:00 - why investing in diverse purpose-led startups is so important12:40 - Conscious Capitalism: we need more human central businesses16:30 - Kevin dives deep into ikigai - learn more about ikigai here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai22:00 - what you need to know to launch a new venture capital fund23:30 - we love Backstage Capital, Arlan Hamilton and her FAB book It's About Damn Time!28:00 - meet Diversity X - a new fund for diverse purpose-led startups32:00 - filling the fund with diverse investors who deeply believe in purpose-led startups42:00 - how you can join Kevin's community and why he's focused on the UK and Europe49:00 - The Daily Stoic - one of Kevin's favorite mindset tools for the founder journey - buy it here: https://amzn.to/3ANSJKG51:20 - confidence ebbs and flows, so focus on your own courage - Stitch That On a Pillow!54:40 - find out the winner of the FREE book, It's About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton!Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#launchingaventurefund #purposeledstartups #diversefoundersANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjONicky's Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_PlaylistGET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter

This week, it's a double feature! Connie & Alex first talk to Brit & Dave Morin, co-founders of Offline Ventures, a $100 million early-stage VC fund focused on areas such as mental health and Web3. Next, your intrepid reporters chat with Steve Tidball, co-founder of Vollebak, a materials science clothing company with marketing that is truly out of this world. 

0:58 Launch of our Venture Fund 3:04 The benefits of pre-IPO access and our investment in Camplify 4:58 Private access to fast growing companies like Mawson Infrastructure 6:05 Zillow's shrinking growth model 11:05 Comparative management decisions between Opendoor and Zillow 15:54 More on Zillow's travails and management 17:29 The importance of customer love – Tesla 18:25 Tesla valuation thoughts 19:16 The NFT and crypto revolution 23:40 How crypto is transforming how games are played 27:48 Facebook's lame Metaverse 29:53 The exciting prospects of games like Star Atlas 30:55 Our thoughts on Pinduoduo and Coupang 31:47 Chinese capital controls and its effects on FUTU and TIGR 33:44 What we like about Solana 34:24 The investment bank of the crypto world – Galaxy 35:50 Value in holding crypto companies – Voyager Digital Q&A's 36:30 Question: Would love to here your thoughts on FUTU? 37:03 Question: What's the upside of Tesla's valuation? 38:17 Question: Thoughts on great resignation and how work is changing? 39:40 Question: What are your thoughts on Zoom? 40:00 Question: Do you like Sandbox over MANA? 40:20 Question: Opening fund for retail? 40:28 Question: Thoughts on Paradigm Pharma? 42:00 Question: What are your thoughts on Chegg? 44:00 Question: What are your thoughts on Allbirds? 44:18 Question: Thoughts on inflation? 45:10 Question: Thoughts on Iris energy? 46:30 Question: CBA and crypto trading? 48:35 Question: What is the global gaming TAM and growth rate? 50:17 Criminal coins

Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal from Acquired join to discuss David's new venture fund Kindergarten Ventures (00:56), how to structure a VC fund (12:16), Jason's super pro-rata strategy (30:17), podcasting (35:50), and they tease the next episode on "The Mount Rushmore of Venture Capital" (56:11) & more!

Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal from Acquired join to discuss David's new venture fund Kindergarten Ventures (00:56), how to structure a VC fund (12:16), Jason's super pro-rata strategy (30:17), podcasting (35:50), and they tease the next episode on "The Mount Rushmore of Venture Capital" (56:11) & more!

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by author and Vox correspondent, Ian Millhiser, to discuss the Supreme Court, Congress, politics and policy, as well as Ian’s new book, The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America.     What will a conservative Supreme Court do with its power? In today’s conversation, as well as in his book, Ian explains how from 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation but in the same time span, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America’s campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Cart Act’s Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discrimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. Ian argues that this powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the U.S. Today, Aaron and Ian, discuss the constitution, forced arbitration, “the administrative state,” power and authority, the judiciary as an independent, and the impact the Court has on us all.       Ian is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. Before joining Vox, Ian was a columnist at ThinkProgress; he clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and he served as a Teach for America corps member in the Mississippi Delta. Ian received his B.A. in philosophy from Kenyon College and his J.D. from Duke. While at Duke, he served as senior note editor on the Duke Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. In addition to his most recent book, Ian is also the author of Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted. Ian’s reporting is partially supported by a grant from the New Venture Fund.       Listen now!   To learn more about Ian, please click here.   To check out Ian’s new book, The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America, please click here.   To read Ian’s recent New York Times op-ed, “Republicans Have an Agenda All Right, and They Don’t Need Congress for It,” please click here.        Host: Aaron Freiwald Guest: Ian Millhiser   Follow Good Law | Bad Law: YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law Facebook: @GOODLAWBADLAW Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw Website: https://www.law-podcast.com

In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha recapped last week's episodes with Satya Prabhakar and Kashyap Deorah, and spoke about Qualcomm ventures' investment in BoAt audio Amazon India's $250Mn Venture fund to take Indian SMBs online Byju's Series F fundraise Swiggy's Fundraise Cleartrip's Acquisition by Flipkart and Tiger Global's $100Mn investment in Dealshare ----------------------- Episodes mentioned in this roundup Helping Indian SMEs | Satya Prabhakar Youtube: https://youtu.be/CT0LiLi1I3Y Anchor : https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-93--Helping-Indian-SMEs--Satya-Prabhakar-Founder--Sulekha-euql4p Being a 4x Entrepreneur | Kashyap Deorah Youtube: https://youtu.be/OONme7zutTY Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-94--Being-a-4x-Entrepreneur--Kashyap-Deorah-Founder--Hypertrack-eutg4q Building in EdTech | Pooja Goyal Youtube: https://youtu.be/Qwrz07FS838 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-85--Building-in-EdTech--Pooja-Goyal-Co-founder--Avishkaar-eslke9 Being a travel startup during covid | Hari G. Youtube: https://youtu.be/ez4JRUEYlZw Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-77--Being-a-travel-startup-during-covid--Hari-Ganapathy-Co-Founder--PickYourTrail-eq4m61 Let us know how you liked this episode by reaching out to us on our Social media. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Here’s a Headstart on three business headlines busy professionals need to know for Tuesday, March 26th, 2019. Learn more at dailyheadstart.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Tracking Security Innovation, Capital One acquired Confyrm, TransUnion acquired Iovation, Auth0 raised $55M Series D, Tanium raised $175M in equity, Cisco forming New Venture Fund, and more! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/BSWEpisode86 Visit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw for all the latest episodes!

In Tracking Security Innovation, Capital One acquired Confyrm, TransUnion acquired Iovation, Auth0 raised $55M Series D, Tanium raised $175M in equity, Cisco forming New Venture Fund, and more! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/BSWEpisode86 Visit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw for all the latest episodes!

Eric is a serial entrepreneur who has started, led, and advised organizations pursuing social change across the country and around the globe. As founder of Arabella Advisors, Eric has been at the forefront of innovation and impact in the philanthropic sector during one of its greatest historical expansions.While guiding Arabella from a small startup to a company with more than 160 employees that advises on several billion dollars of philanthropic resources annually, Eric has focused on helping clients achieve their philanthropic goals by devising grant-making strategies, mounting effective advocacy campaigns, evaluating impact, and managing their foundation’s operations. In addition to serving a broad range of family, institutional, and corporate clients, Eric leads the firm’s work with clients who are working to improve our food system through policies and business investments that promote nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food.Eric’s interest in the food sector extends well beyond his work at Arabella. He chairs the committee at the James Beard Foundation that oversees efforts to engage the culinary community in advocacy on food policy, and he created the foundation’s Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. Eric also co-founded the Chef Action Network and has a personal private equity portfolio invested in businesses at the forefront of improving our food system. And, he proudly serves as an appointed member of Washington, DC’s Food Policy Council.In addition to his work at Arabella, Eric founded and serves as chairman of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit that incubates new social sector innovations, and co-founded the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.Earlier in his career, Eric served as the national field director for the League of Conservation Voters. Then, as a White House appointee, he helped manage conservation issues during the Clinton administration. Before that, Eric spent six years with the National Democratic Institute, which sent him to the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and throughout the Middle East to train civic and political leaders on strategies to encourage democratic change.Eric is on the boards of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the James Beard Foundation. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Summit Series. He also serves as a trustee of his own family’s foundation, which holds assets generated by the sale of a fifth-generation family-owned business.Eric holds an Executive MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Colorado.

We have everything we need to feed every mouth in America, but we do not. Why is policy in the way of a healthy, equitable food system? Add Passion and Stir guests Eric Kessler of Arabella Advisors and Victor Albisu of Del Campo restaurant in DC sit down with Share Our Strength founders Billy and Debbie Shore to explain what we can do to change this unacceptable inequality in our vast American food system. “Food access is one of the simplest things to fix in this country, and yet it’s become one of the most intractable political issues,” says Eric. Policymakers are lagging behind what Americans want and need. So what can each of us do? We can vote both with ballots AND with our wallets. The choices you make, the foods you buy, the restaurants you patronize all make our food system better or worse and lead to overall systems change. Listen to hear about how to vote with your wallet. Listen and Learn: · Why the U.S. food system is a social justice issue · How to address food waste · How to effect systems change Resources and Mentions: · No Kid Hungry: (nokidhungry.org): Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is ending child hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need, every day. · Arabella Advisors (arabellaadvisors.com): Arabella is a team of passionate problem solvers dedicated to helping clients make a difference on the issues that matter most to them. · James Beard Foundation Chefs Boot Camp (jamesbeard.org/education/bootcamp): The Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change provides an opportunity for civically and politically minded chefs to become more effective leaders for food-system change. · Del Campo (delcampodc.com): The lifestyle and food culture celebrated on an estancia, a large South American vineyard estate, is the inspiration for Victor Albisu’s flagship restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The airy, 174-seat agrarian space is home to a meat-driven, wine-centric menu that is a product of Albisu’s Latin American roots and travels throughout Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.

Hussein Kanji really is a pedigree in the industry having started off his career with Microsoft, he made the leap into venture with Accel Partners where he was a board observer with the likes of Playfish, acquired by Electronic Arts and made seed investments in the likes of OpenGamma and Dapper acquired by Yahoo. Following such success, Hussein raised his own fund and is now the founder of Hoxton Ventures, a 2013 fund with $40m under management. Despite, Hoxton’s age their portfolio is immense with the likes of Deliveroo, DarkTrace by the famous Mike Lynch from Autonomy and Campanja, recently acquired by 24/7 customer. Before we delve into the show today, our dear friend and kind donator, Brad Feld has agreed to do a competition giveaway featuring signed copies of his amazing book, Venture Deals, all you have to do to be in with a chance is headover to the website at www.thetwentyminutevc.com and sign up for our newsletter. It’s that simple. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Hussein mad his way into the wonderful world of venture? 2.) What was it like to start a new fund with Hoxton and why did Hussein leave the security of Accel to start his own? 3.) Why did Hussein believe this was the stage with the most opportunity? Does he think there is too much capital chasing too few deals? 4.) With DarkTrace (portfolio company), Hoxton were the only VC money in at the early stage? How did that come about and what was it about Hoxton that made Mike take your money? 5.) Why did Hussein choose to setup the fund in London? What does he think is driving the surge in European tech with the rise of the Nordics etc? 6.) With Steve O’Hear Hussein stated he looks for brand new markets that are going to be formed (Playfish)? What does he think those are? Items Mentioned In Today's Show: Hussein's Fave Book: The Second Bounce Of The Ball: Ronald Cohen, Flowers from Algernon Hussein's Fave Blog: Josh Koppelman: Redeye VC, Abnormal Returns As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Hussein on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session you can follow him on Instagram here!