About this episode

Yarin Gaon discusses his experience in venture capital and business mentoring, focusing on turning around distressed startups.

Yarin was an entrepreneur in residence in a venture capital firm, and what that means in simple terms is, he was the in-house entrepreneur for the fund, and his job was to take distressed assets and basically startups that ran out of money and turn them around. For about 3 years, he volunteered as a business mentor in the University of Chicago, and in SCORE, mentoring about 400 different founders, and saw interesting themes. That led him to kind of quit his venture capital job and start...

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Hosts: John Martinka, Jessica Martinka

Guest: Yarin Gaon

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• venture capital
• business mentoring
• startup turnaround
• distressed assets

Keywords

• entrepreneur
• venture capital
• business mentor
• startup
• distressed assets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Chicago, SCORE, venture capital firm

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