More Resources AboutSenior Recruitment
Whether you’re scaling up, diversifying, or navigating a strategic shift, we will help you identify and connect with top-tier leaders & seniors who not only meet your company’s evolving needs but also elevate your organizational excellence. From sourcing to onboarding, we handle it all, ensuring your expectations are not just met but exceeded.
About this episode
In part 2 of our VB Map Podcast with Apoorva Ruparel,, we dig into how philosophical questions and human history can inform the creation of startups in the Web2-Web3 world:
- The role of standardization in scaling anything (religion, F&B, startups!) and the conditions needed for scaling
- Categorizing human needs helps product strategists synthesize patterns and good practices in addressing problem statements
- How the values system for the internet is broken and the opportunity for Web3 companies
- What does a venture look like that builds for a world that transitions from Web2 to Web3?
- What verticals and problems are Web3 adoption ready?
- The risks and dangers of having average consumers start with angel investment
Check out Part 1 here.
About this episode
Apoorva Ruparel is a serial Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits, angel investor, 500 Global Mentor. Apoorva is a Partner at Venturerock, a digital venture capital platform and ecosystem of founders, backers & builders building the next generation of global tech companies. He has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Sales, Angel Investing, Fund Raising, Go To Market Strategy and Growth Hacking.
In this episode Slash CEO Andries De Vos and Apoorva Ruparel discuss:
- Why startups fail and what the industry can do about it?
- The challenge of VCs: we don’t have a problem of choice, but a problem of quality.
- Real Venture Building has been around for a while, but is really only now arriving – but there is no perfect formula yet
- How to breakdown the VB process into 70+ milestones, the strategic importance of acquiring building blocks for each, and how to structure your VB team capabilities
- How much equity should a VB take and what is a fair equity stake for founders? We debated different models for financial inclusions between investors, founders and teams, and how those differ by region.
- VC-VB fund economics: how much money do you invest per startup, ownership targets, how much more risk can you take or should take
Apoorva’s profile on LinkedIn
About this episode
Usman Sheikh is the Managing Director of High Output Ventures. High Output Ventures is a seed-stage fund and startup studio investing in exceptional domains experts who are building the remote first companies of tomorrow. Usman is a serial entrepreneur, having built, operated, and sold companies over the last 15 years.
The conversation centers around:
- Adjusting your mindset and skillset as serial entrepreneur for investing and operating/building, and what this means for VC-VB models
- Defining your personal drive and measure of success as serial entrepreneur
- Finding the right CEOs
- Building a remote culture and remote practices
- Differences in talent in Europe and Asia, and what qualities to look for
- Creating a flywheel of concept validation for ventures, and the importance of discipline and quick iteration
- The qualities one needs to have to be a startup CEO
Website URL: https://www.hov.co/
Usman’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmans/
HOV LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/highoutput/
Let’s create together
Our tech and product builders will listen and analyze to assess your needs, create a roadmap and put in place an autonomous team to turn dreams into reality.
