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John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses

by Jono Bacon | Sep 20, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage, Uncategorized

We are all familiar with the venture capital model: invest money into a company, provide advice and guidance to help them succeed, and work towards a positive exit. Unusual Ventures are taking a very different approach. Unusual focus on embedding members of their team...

Catherine Gray on Enneagrams, Personality Tests, and Leadership Development

by Jono Bacon | Sep 7, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

Many of us are striving for growth and success, but we don’t know which levers to yank to get the right results. This is where Catherine Gray from The Trium Group comes in. She is an expert in a range of tools, such as Enneagrams, to evaluate what kind of...

David Hornik on the People and Culture of Venture Capital and Startups

by Jono Bacon | Aug 25, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

For those playing along with Silicon Valley bingo, there is an enormous amount of change going on in startups, venture capital, and beyond. This has been heightened by the impact of COVID-19 on founders, startups, and investors. David Hornik has been around the...

Marik Hazan on Psychedelics and Venture Capital

by Jono Bacon | Aug 10, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

When I say the word “psychedelics”, you probably think of hazy people tripping on suspicious substances at a Grateful Dead concert. Well, the story is much deeper than this, and it is a very interesting story indeed. It turns out there has been an enormous...

Mike Dillard on Effective Marketing, Gurus, and Growth

by Jono Bacon | Jul 27, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

In recent years, there has been an explosion in digital marketing. Bold claims of making thousands of dollars a day have been perpetuated by self-proclaimed marketing gurus. It all seems a bit much to my cynical British eye. This is why I was thrilled to have Mike...

Alyssa Miller From Snyk on the State of Open Source Security

by Jono Bacon | Jul 14, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

Open Source has seen enormous growth in recent years, and this has shone the light on the security of the many different components in open source systems such as NPM, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and Debian. How do we ensure that the rapidly growing library of open...