In this episode, I met with Odessa Jenkins, President of Emtrain and Founder of the WNFC (Women's National Football Conference)

Emtrain is a Series A eLearning platform backed by Education Growth Partners that focuses on ethics, DEI, compliance, and HR training. 

In this episode, we discuss: 

- Odessa's career path and how she took over the President role at Emtrain.
- How she founded the WNFC alongside a robust career and how to maintain balance.
-When companies should starting thinking about incorporating DEI into their company values and operations.
- What most companies get wrong when it comes to DEI.
- How leadership can embed DEI into their foundational practices.

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Riece's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riecekeck/
Website: www.vaultrecruiting.com

In this episode, I met with Mary Grove, Managing Partner at Bread and Butter Ventures, who gave some amazing advice for early stage founders. Prior to co-founding Bread and Butter Ventures, Mary spent 14 years at Google with her last position as Director at Google for Entrepreneurs.

Bread and Butter Ventures specializes in seed stage investments in agtech, digital health, and enterprise SaaS. 

In this episode, we discuss: 

- Best advice for running a fundraising process from A to Z. 
- The most common traits she has seen in successful founders. 
- How to maintain good relationships with a VC partner after investment. 
- What founders should look for in VCs from a partnership perspective beyond capital. 
- How seed stage companies are being impacted and how to navigate the current economic waters. 

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Riece's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riecekeck/
Website: www.vaultrecruiting.com

In this episode, Christine Castro shares her insights learned from leading marketing at early stage startups. We discuss: 

- Christine's background and expertise as a marketing leader
- Why CMO's have shorter tenure's than most C Suite execs
- What to look for when making a first marketing hire
- The most important metric for a marketing leader
- How to work with CEOs that don't come from marketing backgrounds
- What to do when building a a marketing function from the ground up

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Riece's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riecekeck/
Website: www.vaultrecruiting.com

In the first episode of Seed to Exit, I was joined by Tim Hogwood, CEO of SourceWhale. SourceWhale is a SaaS platform designed specifically for recruiters to make them more efficient via email automation, contact discovery, and personalization at scale. 

In this episode, we discuss: 
- Tim's inspiration and journey to starting SourceWhale
- What he's learned growing from a team of two to a team of fifty in a short time period
- Why they chose to go the bootstrapped route vs raising VC or other outside capital
- How to grow responsibly when bootstrapped
- What the future holds for SourceWhale

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Riece's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riecekeck/
Website: www.vaultrecruiting.com

Welcome, and thanks for listening to Seed to Exit! 

In this short, introductory episode, I introduce myself, why I created the show, and what you can expect from future episodes.

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Riece's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riecekeck/
Website: www.vaultrecruiting.com