Mon, 16 May 2022
Know Your Why Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. In funding startups, it’s important to know your why. This goes beyond making money, saving for retirement, and financial goals. What is your mission or cause that you are passionate about? Start with your passion and what drives you. Consider what impact your investment will have on the community, the technology sector, or in general. You could focus on your local startup ecosystem. By investing locally you can build it up through your time and funds. You could focus on a technology sector you believe will further its progress, or you could focus on social impact in which case you find a specific cause that benefits the larger community you want to support. Whatever it is, consider focusing on that cause and make it a part of your investment thesis. A focused effort will bring a greater result. Those with a Why will find the work of finding startups, diligencing them, and investing to be a much more rewarding experience. For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound. |
Mon, 16 May 2022
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Jaime Moreno de Los Rios, Chief Operating Officer at Secfi. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2017, Secfi is trusted by thousands of startup employees for equity planning and financing. Secfi is the first to provide a proprietary suite of equity planning tools, 1:1 guidance with licensed equity strategists, and a set of financing products that enable employees to own a stake in the company they helped build. They also provide company-wide education for startups at all stages to help their team make the best decision for their own situation. Currently, they have worked with employees from more than 80% of all U.S. unicorns. Jaime’s career spans across investment banking and five years of building startups. Prior to Secfi, he was VP of Corporate Development & Investor Relations at Flexport, where he was also Head of Flexport Capital, the lending business. In the past, he spent ten years in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong, where he advised tech startups on more than $20bn worth of capital raisings, M&A, debt offerings, and IPOs. Jaime also spent two years working for the German venture builder Rocket Internet as Country Manager for Spain and Nigeria. Jaime holds a double major in Law and Business Administration from the University of ICADE in Madrid. Jaime discusses the most important lesson he’s learned in helping companies and employees get the maximum value out of their equity, what online information source he finds most helpful in his work, and if he were to start a new business what it would be. You can visit Secfi at www.secfi.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/secfiinc/, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/AskSecfi. Jaime can be contacted at jaime@secfi.com, and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jaimemorenodelosrios. _____________________________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound. |