Since the Cold War, America's technological leadership has provided the U.S. military a qualitative advantage over its adversaries. That edge is now threatened by China's rapid development of technologies with…
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Entrepreneurship is hard and requires guts, sacrifice, and a willingness to endure. This is one of many reasons why Brandon Shelton is bullish about investing in veteran-led startups. Our guest…
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TFX Capital Founder Brandon Shelton on How Military Experience Prepares Veterans for Startup Success
In this episode, Michael Conniff sits down with Brandon Shelton, founder and managing partner of TFX Capital, an early-stage technology venture capital firm that invests in service-driven, high-performing, and commercially…
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It’s no surprise that foreign investors play an active role in the US private capital market. However, their presence raises the question of whether nation-state actors can use their investment…
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Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re the…
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EXPENSIVE MILITARY HARDWARE LIKE a new tank undergoes rigorous testing before heading to the battlefield. A startup called Istari, backed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chair…
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The Defense Industrial Base is still quite vast, but it’s steadily shrinking. The latest edition of an annual report by the National Defense Industrial Association suggests that even though thousands…
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Every startup leadership team wrestles with the trade-offs between growth and profitability. This is fitting and ever shall be. What teams don’t reflect on sufficiently is how a flawed compensation…
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Over the past three years, founders and investors have navigated an astounding number of strategic shocks—a global pandemic, economic lockdown, the Ukraine crisis, rising interest rates, inflation, and more. Even…
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If an artificial intelligence program were to engineer a human with the potential to destroy it—or at least slow its march to global domination—it might create Edward Tian. Tian, a…
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