Podcast 23: How to Raise Venture Capital Outside of Silicon Valley with Mike Belsito

Mike Belsito is a startup business developer who loves creating something from nothing. Mike has spent nearly ten years in various startup companies as an early employee, leader, and co-founder.

This week we talk to Mike about new book, How to Raise Venture Capital Outside of Silicon Valley is a great primer for entrpreneurs who feel stuck and unable to raise money because they live somewhere like I do (Portland, Oregon) which is not know for a thriving investment community.

Here’s a quick description of the book: You have aspirations for creating a startup company that will change the world, but need startup capital in order to make that happen. Where do you start? How can you raise serious funding when you don’t have many connections or live outside of a major startup community like Silicon Valley?

We start out the podcast by talking about some of my favorite security and privacy tools.