Over 40 years, he's seen a lot, starting with 19 with a failed business, invested with Bradfeld or early on, first angel investment.

He's since taken many companies public, including his own, bought back pieces, sold, invested, LPN venture funds.

He's seen a lot. He's now codified that.

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We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company. It was a

hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have

like a twenty two thousand customers. With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Will Herman.

He's an entrepreneur, active angel investor investor corporate director and startup mentor he started

and managed five companies resulting in two IPOs and two corporate sales will has also invested

in over 70 startups set on the boards of 20 and has advised over a hundred plus will are you ready to

take us to the top i am going to try all right you've seen a lot and what I like about someone who's seen a lot is you can start to recognize patterns.

First, give me a sense, again, of your sample size.

What's kind of the total number of companies?

And what year did you start with startups?

Well, I've started with startups when I was in, when I was college, what year I'm going to give way your outing me here on my age.

Let's see, it was 1979, was the first startup I joined.

I quit college and joined a small startup outside of Philadelphia.

This was View Logic.

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