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July 7, 2021

Ep. 11 – Crossing the Chasm to Create a Better World for Women – with Clint McKinlay

       Wildcat believes and invests in early stage companies that solve massive problems and deliver solutions for a better world. And those…

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June 6, 2021

Ep. 10 – The Importance of Talent and Team to Cross the Chasm

     Crossing the Chasm is a framework that is valuable to driving early stage venture investment decisions while also serving as an operational…

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June 6, 2021

Episode 9 – Crossing The Chasm as a Framework for Investments

   Crossing the Chasm is a critical framework that the Wildcat team has personally experienced as operators, executives and investors. In fact they have…

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April 4, 2021

Ep. 7 – The Future of Digital Transformation

       Much has changed in the past year and there's no question that digital transformation initiatives across every business have been front…

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November 11, 2020

Ep. 6 – Digital Transformation

    Where we work and how we work have been completely disrupted by the pandemic. Behaviors, processes, systems and tools have fundamentally changed, and…

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October 10, 2020

Ep. 5 – The Future of Healthcare

    COVID-19 has affected lives all around the globe and it’s no secret that it has dialed up digital adoption even in the complex,…

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October 10, 2020

Ep. 4 – The Future of Financial Services

    Invention and innovation have a powerful grip on our collective imagination, and in venture capital there is a front-row seat to the exciting…

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September 9, 2020

Ep. 3 – Investment Strategy: The Diligence, Focus and Framework to Drive Traction

  With rapidly increasing fund sizes and record-breaking dry powder in venture, putting early stage capital to work efficiently is challenging. And as we learned…

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August 8, 2020

EP. 2- Evolution of Venture Capital PT. 2 with Bill Ericson

  In part 1 of our 2 part series on the Evolution of Venture Capital, Bill Ericson, Founding Partner at Wildcat, shared how industry dynamics…

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August 8, 2020

Ep. 1- Evolution of Venture Capital Pt. 1 with Bill Ericson

    Venture Capital has changed quite a bit over the last 20 years years, to the point where Bill Ericson, Founding Partner at Wildcat,…

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July 7, 2019

Five Things We Need to do to Close the VC Gender Gap

As part of my series about “the five things we need to do to close the VC gender gap,” I had the pleasure of interviewing…

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May 5, 2019

Building Better: Wildcat Venture Partners & Obo

Welcome to the NVCA Blog series, Building Better, where we celebrate the dynamic relationship between our VC members and their innovative portfolio companies around the…

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November 11, 2018

Why We Invested in LeaseLock

Who Needs a Security Deposit? Too many of us are all too familiar with the burden of signing a new lease and its most dreaded sidekick,…

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October 10, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Fernandez explains the importance of culture and values at Marketo

During this video clip, Phil explains how the company culture and values were such a success story at Marketo and that success was based on…

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October 10, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Fernandez shares what he is most proud of with regards to Marketo and how he evolved as a CEO during the process

On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. The event featured an interview with Phil Fernandez, founding…

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October 10, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Fernandez shares what he’s looking for in founders now that he’s on the VC side.

On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. The event featured…

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October 10, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Fernandez discusses what happened at Marketo post Traction Gap – the next chapter in the story

On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. The event featured…

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October 10, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Fernandez on Marketo Nation & the importance building a team culture that extends to end users

On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. The event featured…

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August 8, 2017

Video: Phil Fernandez on why he started Marketo & the importance of team

On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. The event featured…

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