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“Acing the Pitch” - Mike Ghaffary, General Partner, Canvas Ventures

“Acing the Pitch” - Mike Ghaffary, General Partner, Canvas Ventures

FromThe HLEP Podcast


“Acing the Pitch” - Mike Ghaffary, General Partner, Canvas Ventures

FromThe HLEP Podcast

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Jan 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On episode 14, we speak to Mike Ghaffary, a General Partner at Canvas Ventures. Mike was also the co-founder of the podcast app, Stitcher, a Vice President of Business and Corporate Development at Yelp, and the CEO of Eat 24, one of Yelp’s subsidiaries. We learn about venture capital investments, including how VC investors evaluate potential investments, how they make investment decisions, and how to make a successful venture capital pitch. If you’re a law student or lawyer interested in joining the venture capital space one day, or a founder interested in what it takes to successfully secure funding, this episode is for you!
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Released:
Jan 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Season 1 explores lawyering throughout a company's life cycle, from startup formation, its middle growth stages, and the exit stages via mergers & acquisitions & initial public offerings. We interview lawyers from some of the elite Emerging Companies & Venture Capital law firms, learn what practicing is like at each stage of the corporate life cycle, and discuss common legal issues that founders face. The HLEP Podcast is a production of the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project, an officially recognized student organization at Harvard Law School