Nathan Beckord

Sep 27, 2024 | allbusiness.com | Nathan Beckord

So you want to manage a VC fund. The first question Samir Kaji wants to ask you is Are you sure? It’s not a statement meant to gatekeep VC, but rather to acknowledge the difficulties that come with starting out in venture capital. Seasons come and go where it becomes in vogue to be a fund manager. As much as it might look like a “get rich quick” scheme when the market is hot, it’s really a “get rich slowly over time if you put in the work” plan. Samir has seen several such seasons.

Sep 23, 2024 | forbes.com | Nathan Beckord

By Nathan BeckordSo you want to manage a VC fund. The first question Samir Kaji wants to ask you is Are you sure? It’s not a statement meant to gatekeep VC, but rather to acknowledge the difficulties that come with starting out in venture capital. Seasons come and go where it becomes in vogue to be a fund manager. As much as it might look like a “get rich quick” scheme when the market is hot, it’s really a “get rich slowly over time if you put in the work” plan. Samir has seen several such seasons.

Aug 19, 2024 | medium.com | Nathan Beckord

Nathan Beckord·Follow5 min read·Aug 19, 2024--Some of the smartest investors once sat on the entrepreneur’s side of the table. This is the story of one such investor. Zach Coelius has played in almost every part of the startup funding world. He likes to use the metaphor of a Roman gladiator arena: Entrepreneurs are the gladiators, facing the toughest battles, and venture capitalists are the spectators taking bets on who will win.

Aug 12, 2024 | medium.com | Nathan Beckord

Nathan Beckord·Follow5 min read·Aug 12, 2024--A lot of advice on raising capital will sound similar: Get your stats together, make a pitch deck, and hit the pavement to network, network, network. And for the majority of companies, that’s effective. For Ben Lamm, that’s how he raised capital for his first five ventures. But what if you’re raising for a company that won’t have a 10x return in two years? What if your company is poised to bring wooly mammoths and dodo birds back from extinction?

Aug 1, 2024 | allbusiness.com | Nathan Beckord

While some may have said there wasn't room in the market for another mac and cheese product, that didn't matter to serial entrepreneur Jen Zeszut. In November 2021, Jen and her co-founders entered the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry with a bang, disrupting the great mac and cheese duopoly with their new noodle option, Goodles. Because even though mac and cheese is beloved by kids and adults alike, there were only two major players in the market at the time.