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E45: How to Raise Capital for your Startup from a VC, Put the Right Value for your Startup and How the Venture Capital Structure Works – Interview with Swatick Majumdar

Ahmed Al Kiremli — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:29:15 +0000

Swatick Majumdar

(MANAGING DIRECTOR of DEV VC, he’s an Expert in VC Investments and Startups with focus on Technology and Entertainment)

How a VC Company Raises Capital for its Investments? What is the Usual Structure and Positions of a VC Company? MANAGING DIRECTOR vs. VENTURE PARTNER in a VC company?

How new Startups can Pitch Dev. to Raise Capital? How to Value Your Startup? What are the challenges to expand the VC and startup culture in the Middle East?

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Swatick Majumdar is a MANAGING DIRECTOR of DEV. Previously he was with Chatsworth Securities, a Greenwich, CT based boutique investment bank. At Chatsworth Mr. Majumdar focused his investment banking activities on the US-India corridor where he helped execute numerous successful financings in various sectors including Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Biotechnology and Medical Devices.

Mr. Majumdar has also held key positions at Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC and Josephthal & Co. He was also an entrepreneur and founder of Riverhead Sports Management, a hospitality and entertainment company. Swatick has been sought out as a speaker, a panelist and a moderator at industry events in the US, India and the United Arab Emirates.

Mr. Majumdar received his Masters Degree in Applied Economics from University of Lucknow, India and a Masters Degree in Computer and MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS from University of Central Texas (A&M Central Campus). He has been active as an advisor in the start-up evolution of companies and brings a wealth of global relationships, expertise and operating history to the team at DEV.

Swatick is a trained volunteer at the American Red Cross and represents the Disaster Action Team (DAT) of Long Island. He also volunteers his time in India for causes related to children. Swatick is active in local politics and supports issues related to economy and education. He is an avid sportsman and was a Marshall at the Barclay’s PGA Golf tournament.

About DEV

DEV fuels the companies that transform media and entertainment. Our portfolio of investments and advisory clients span music, TV/film, games, publishing and social media.

DEV Fund We INVEST seed stage capital in startups and early stage capital in companies that are on a roll. Here are some of the things we look for: Your business should represent a transformative trend in media and entertainment, and the product you are selling should fill a genuine gap or need in the marketplace. You should be able to validate your business concept and identify several natural exit opportunities. Key developmental milestones should be achievable at low cost and your product should have the potential to reach significant scale. Your management team should have prior operating experience and include thought leaders in their field. You should have a strong presence in New York City and our team should be able to add value.

DEV Advisors We offer consulting and advisory services by a team with extensive experience in building companies and monetizing digital media. Our expertise includes: Strategic business development. Content licensing and rights negotiation. Distribution strategy. Strategic partnerships. Introductions to key executives in media and entertainment. Business plan and INVESTMENT presentation development. Competitive analysis. Vendor selection. INVESTMENT and fundraising strategy.

DEV Korea DEV has established a global profile with offices in New York and Seoul. DEV Korea, located in the heart of Seoul’s vibrant Gangnam district, brings the knowledge and experience to build a new venture ecosystem. Korea is on the cusp of an explosion in tech and new media startups and DEV Korea is uniquely positioned to provide the right blend of investment and guidance. DEV provides a platform for Korean ventures seeking US distribution and US startups that are ideal candidates to enter the Korean market. We are committed to helping local brands become strong global brands. The DEV Korea Discovery Fund is building an extensive portfolio of the most promising early stage Korean companies. Groups of ten companies are periodically selected to participate in an intensive acceleration program that is split between Seoul and New York City.

DEV Accelerator The DEV Accelerator Fund is INVESTING in hundreds of early stage companies by working through established U.S. and global accelerator programs.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://devny.vc

https://blog.devny.vc

https://www.facebook.com/dev

https://twitter.com/dev

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dev

https://plus.google.com/106204736500684207167/posts

https://www.linkedin.com/in/swatickmajumdar

https://twitter.com/swatickmajumdar

Interview Questions

How did you start in the investment world and what’s your background?
How a VC company raises capital for its investments?
What is the usual structure and positions of a VC company?
What’s the investment sentiment in the US today?
MANAGING DIRECTOR vs. VENTURE PARTNER in a VC company?
How the management fee for operating the fund and the carried interest on investments for a VC company works, in other words how a VC company MAKES MONEY?
How DEV accelerator works and what makes it different from other accelerators?
How much is the range of your investment per startup?
Which kind of startups you are looking for?
How new startups can pitch you?
Do you still need full projections studies or you accept sometimes some realistic studies based on one page excel sheet file?
How do you help the startups that you invest in or advice to exit?
Based on what you value a new startup with no sales?
How much would you value a company with $100000 sales per year and 20% profit? And with a 10% growth per year, in operations for 3 years?
Form your experience; your successes were mainly related to the great idea of the startup or the entrepreneur?
What are your most successful startups that you invested in and why you think they are very successful?
Why you decided to open a branch in Korea specifically?
Why currently you are thinking of expanding your presence to the Middle East?
What are the challenges to expand the VC and startup culture in the Middle East?
Do you think that the tech startup world is a bubble?

What’s your advice for new entrepreneurs to be able to raise capital successfully?
Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
What are your other hobbies?
Who are your top 3 mentors?
What’s the biggest failure moment in your life and what did you learn from it?
What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
What’s the best advice that you ever RECEIVED?
If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
What are your top 3 favorite BOOKS?
What makes you really happy?
How people can contact you?

Transcript

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E61: How to Believe in your Brand & Scale it Using Youtube, Twitter and Radio – EVAN CARMICHAEL

Ahmed Al Kiremli — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:23:55 +0000

EVAN CARMICHAEL

(Business Coach who helps Entrepreneurs Believe in their Dreams and Act on them by Building their Dream Business to Achieve their Goals, he’s also a Marketing and Publicity Strategist)

How Evan is getting Paid for His Radio Show in Advance from Some Brands

Should you Bootstrap Your Business or Raise Capital from VC and Angel Investors?

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Evan Carmichael helps entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22 he was a venture capitalist helping raise between $500,000 and $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, one of the world’s most popular websites for entrepreneurs. His goal is to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. He has helped set 2 world records, works 20 hours per week, uses a stand-up desk, rides a Vespa, raises funds for Kiva, and created a line of Entrepreneur trading cards. He graduated from the University of Toronto and enjoys salsa dancing, being a DJ, and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://www.evancarmichael.com/

https://twitter.com/evancarmichael

https://www.facebook.com/EvanCarmichaelcom

https://www.youtube.com/user/ModelingTheMasters

https://www.linkedin.com/in/evancarmichael

https://www.pinterest.com/evancarmichael/

https://plus.google.com/108469771690394737405/posts

https://www.tumblr.com/search/Evan+Carmichael

https://angel.co/evancarmichael

https://medium.com/@EvanCarmichael

Books

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Interview Questions

When you started as Entrepreneur and what’s your background?
Why you sold your biotech company at age 22? Why you didn’tkeep it and kept generating passive income in case of automating its operations?
What’s your strategy to achieve your vision of helping 1 billion entrepreneurs? I guess it’s a strategy that needs to continue after you die for hundred of years till the world first have 1 billion entrepreneurs?
Best tips to raise capital from angel investors?
Best tips to raise capital from a VC?
Do you help entrepreneurs raise capital, if yes how?
Are you still an Investor (Angel or VC)
What’s Kiva and your main role in it?
I love the motivational and inspirational videos that you share, do you edit some of them yourself?
Can you share your video editor name?
Where do you record and publish your radio show?
What’s your social media strategy and how do you use it to generate more leads?
Share with us some of your key strategies to build engagement for some brands?
Which PR companies or techniques do you use for the brands that you help to generate more publicity?
Facebook or Twitter and why?
How your twitter chat system works?
What are The 5 step process to getting tangible results from social media.
Your top 3 strategies to get paid speaking engagements?
How many team members are working with you on your projectsor marketing company, how many of them are offline and how many are outsourced?
What are the major services that you offer and how do you structure its cost for your clients? How much you charge for 1:1 consultation or consultation for companies?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
How people can contact you?

Transcript

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E22: How to Raise Capital for your Startup through an Accelerator or Incubator, and when to Pitch an Angel Investor or a VC? – Interview with Kamal Hassan

Ahmed Al Kiremli — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:23:15 +0000

Kamal Hassan

(General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, Founder of i360accelerator for Startups, President & CEO of Innovation 360 Institute and Managing Director of Turn8 a seed accelerator program initiated by DP World)

How the Process of Startups Acceleration Works? And the Investment in Technology Startups will Lead us to a new Bubble?

How General Partners and Advisors at a VC Firm get Paid? What’s the Difference between a VC and Private Equity? What are the Different Levels of Investments?

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Kamal Hassan is General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital, based out of Dubai office and leading the operations in the Middle East. He is a 20-year veteran of the business world with expertise in corporate strategy, innovation management, performance excellence, as well as startup development and growth.

Concurrent to his role at Fenox, Kamal is founder, President and CEO of Dubai-based Innovation 360, a global innovation management firm. As an active supporter of startups and SMEs, Kamal has invested in 19 startups through regional seed funding programs. He is the driving force behind i360accelerator, a 120-day accelerator program for startups, as well as a Managing Director for TURN8, a seed accelerator program organized by DP World.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://i360accelerator.com/

https://i360institute.com/

https://thecribb.co/

https://www.turn8.co/

https://fenoxvc.com/

https://www.facebook.com/i360accelerator

https://www.facebook.com/AtTheCribb

https://twitter.com/Innovation360

https://www.facebook.com/kamal.hassan.56

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal12hassan

Interview Questions

How did you do the transition from biology & genetics to startups & investments?
Why you decided to come to Dubai and develop the startup community in Dubai?
Why & How the Turn8 project started by DP world?
What’s the difference between i360accelator & DP World’s seed accelerator Turn8? And the Cribb?
How the process of the acceleration works?
Do the startups need to open a company to be listed in the Cribb?
Which criteria you use to select startups at the Cribb or Turn8?
What’s the percentage of startups that you choose from the total applied companies?
What happens after the graduation of the startups? Do you introduce them to VCs or Angel Investors?
What’s the most successful startup in terms of net profit that came through the Cribb or Turn8 program?
What are the major challenges that you are facing with the new startups in the region?
What are the major challenges for the startups in Dubai?
Is there’s a real environment of Angel Investors in Dubai? Is the startup market is mature enough?
How different is the VC & Angel Investing world between the Middle East and the US?
What’s the difference between a VC and Private Equity Firm?
You are a general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, what’s the usual structure of a VC company? What does partner or general partner means?
How those principals, general partners, advisors get paid?
How do you select the general partner or advisor in your VC?
What are the different series of investment Example what you call Series A up to the IPO?
On which criteria would you choose the right IPO market for a Startup or company?
How somebody can pitch Fenox for investment? It can be an early stage startup or after the Angel round?
What’s the system that startups follow to put a value for their startup? Don’t you think these values are exaggerated most of the time?
Do you think this focus in investing in technology will lead us to a bubble?
How about the offline or physical products project which is representing more than 90% of the projects in the world? Do you or Fenox or the Cribb invest in?
How the consultancy services of the innovation 360 works? Do you provide 1:1 coaching?
What’s your personal portfolio of investments?
How a startup can pitch you?
Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
Take us through your typical working day?
What are your other hobbies?
3 things that you believe are the most important factors for any success?
What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
What are your top 3 favorite books?
What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
What are the things that make you happy?
How people can contact you?

Transcript

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E5: How To Raise Capital For Your Startup Through Incubators, Angels And VCs – Interview With Sacha Vekeman

Ahmed Al Kiremli — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 07:02:27 +0000

Sacha Vekeman

(CEO of Scense, Managing Partner of 247 Invest Venture Capital)

How to Successfully Get Investments and Mentoring to Launch Your Start Ups and The Differences Between Raising Capital In the US, Europe and the Middle East

The Differences Between Raising Capital from Angle Investors, Incubators and VCs

Video Interview

With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Sacha Vekeman is the Managing Partner of 24/7 invest Venture Capital, board member and co-founder of different companies in various fields, he’s also a mentor for many startups and big companies. He is the CEO at Scense, which is a fast growing software company. Sacha has more than 15 years of experience in large multinational corporations, technology startups and high-growth companies.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://www.247invest.net/

https://www.scense.com/

https://qamira.com/

Interview Questions

• What’s the main focus of 247 in terms of regions and industries?

• What’s the portfolio of the companies that you have invested in?

• At what stage of investment 247 get involved, early stage,
profitable companies, other stages?

• Did you go public with any of the companies that you invested in?

• Can you tell more about your background before getting involved
in the VC world? And how did you get involved in it?

• Do you personally invest out of 247 or all your investments goes
through 247?

• As you are a partner in a VC firm, means you like to have control
in the companies that you invest in, do you still like to Angel Invest in different companies and have no control over it?

• How many partners & employees you have in 247?

• What’s the major role of each employee of a typical VC
company? As many people think that the VC job is so easy and
relaxing?

• What’s the success rate of the companies that you or your
companies have invested in?

• How somebody can pitch you? And what are the things that you
want to see in a pitch?

• What’s iMinds, can you please clarify your major role in it?

• What’s the difference between Private Equity & Venture Capital?

• In financing & fundraising, what’s the difference between selling
technology (customer model and selling shares/stock (investment
model)?

• How to valuate a new startup? How many ways are out there to
put a value for a new startup?

• What are the companies that you have invested in, in the Middle
East?

• Do you get involved in the company trade license or you open an
offshore company?

• What are the challenges that you face in the Middle East in terms
of finding or working with new investors or startups?

• Why most of the Angel Investors or VCs now days are focused
more on the fashion of the Technology & Online Startups, how
about the Offline Startups?

• Why all the investing concept is built around capital gain and
exiting the investment, how about cash flow? • Can you recommend some Angel Investors or VCs that works
with the offline or online industries?

• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise
capital for new startups?

• How much is the salary of the VC members, is true that most of
them are employees

• What are the services that you provide through Prosquare?

• Take us through your typical working day?

• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?

• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay
efficient?

• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?

• What are the things that make you happy?

• How people can find you or contact you?

Transcript

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