{"id":116,"date":"2020-05-27T22:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2022-02-03T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:13:51","slug":"startup-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/?page_id=116","title":{"rendered":"Startup Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over 5 years I have been helping and mentoring <a href=\"https:\/\/angel.co\/u\/damian-felchlin\">early stage startups<\/a> and entrepreneurs. I love to see startups grow and entrepreneurs succeed.<\/p>\n<p>For four years, I was a <a href=\"https:\/\/food-x.com\/mentor-list\/damian-felchlin\/\">mentor<\/a> for the Food-X Accelerator program.<\/p>\n<p>Mentoring activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategy and Market Positioning<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising including Pitch Deck<\/li>\n<li>Dynamics of Venture Capital<\/li>\n<li>International Expansion<\/li>\n<li>Expanding Network<\/li>\n<li>Business Development<\/li>\n<li>Supply Chain and Distribution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Venture Capital Academy Switzerland<\/h1>\n<p>In 2018 and 2019 in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Center for Law &amp; Business, I initiated and organized the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.s-ge.com\/en\/event\/s-ge-event\/venture-capital-academy-switzerland\">Venture Capital Academy Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-195\" src=\"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2234-300x236.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2234-300x236.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2234-1024x807.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2234-768x605.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2234.jpeg 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2154-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2154-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2154-1024x688.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2154-768x516.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2154.jpeg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Recommendations<\/h1>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld<\/li>\n<li>Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor<\/li>\n<li>The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy by Leigh Gallagher<\/li>\n<li>Quench Your Own Thirst : Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch<\/li>\n<li>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Podcasts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swisspreneur.org\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swisspreneur<\/a>, &#8220;Switzerland\u2019s most talented founders, business leaders and innovators&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510313\/how-i-built-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How I Built This with Guy Raz<\/a>, &#8220;Stories behind some of the world&#8217;s best known companies&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over 5 years I have been helping and mentoring early stage startups and entrepreneurs. I love to see startups grow and entrepreneurs succeed. For four years, I was a mentor for the Food-X Accelerator program. Mentoring activities include: Strategy and Market Positioning Fundraising including Pitch Deck Dynamics of Venture Capital International Expansion Expanding Network &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/?page_id=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Startup Support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felchlin.co\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}