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Seed to Harvest

🎙️ Seed to Harvest | Stories from Technical Storytellers

Welcome to Seed to Harvest, the podcast by Behind Genius Ventures.

We talk to early-stage founders, operators, and investors—people building with code and conviction. Each episode is a chapter in their story: from the messy beginnings to the quiet pivots, from planting ideas to growing companies that matter.

Expect:
🌱 Honest conversations on the earliest chapters of company-building
🧠 Tactical insights from technical minds with narrative soul
✨ Reflections on resilience, rituals, and reinventing what’s possible

This podcast is for the builders who think in frameworks and metaphors. The ones who whiteboard in wild places. The ones writing their own mythologies—one commit, pitch, or poem at a time.

From spark to story.
From seed to harvest. 🌾

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Red Beard Ventures Investor Elana Dickman on her Path into Venture and Making 200 Investments Through a Syndicate with Red Beard Founder Drew Austin | Seed To Harvest Ep38

November 07, 2022 • Paige Finn Doherty • Episode 38

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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today I'm joined by my good friend Elana Dickman, an investor at Red Beard Ventures. She started her career at top consulting firms such as KPMG and Deloitte. She has built a reputation for herself as a content creator with her podcast, The Girls Table, where Web3 individuals chat about ideas, investments, the future, and more. Elana is an angel and NFT investor as well.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Elana Dickman

04:55 Transition from consulting to venture

10:00 Increasing connections through crypto events

15:05 Diving into the world of web 3

20:45 3 common mistakes founders make

25:22 Elana's favorite concerts

Show notes:

Elana Dickman | https://mobile.twitter.com/tradingfemale

Red Beard Ventures | https://redbeard.ventures/

The Girls Table | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-girls-table/id1625030412

Drew Austin | https://mobile.twitter.com/drewaustin

Power of Habit | https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X

Ready Player One | https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448

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