Early Stage Startup Investing — with Ethan Evans & Peter Mueller (Co-Founding Partner at Breakwater Ventures)

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About the Event

Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members are invited to join this live event with Ethan and Peter Mueller (Co-Founding Partner at Breakwater Ventures) discussing "Early Stage Startup Investing" followed by a live audience Q&A.

Topics of discussion:

Peter's early-stage fund, investment thesis, and how he picks winners as a VC.
What do founders need to do to get funded?
How do you approach a VC?
What makes a good/bad VC pitch?
How do executives and operators know which winning startups to join?
What is the track to becoming an EIR?
How do people get involved with / help a VC firm?

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The event will be video recorded and shared on Ethan's YouTube channel.

Backstory: Ethan and Peter

It started with Peter commenting on Ethan's Twitch streams and then turned into "Twitch Tank" (Shark Tank style show for Twitch) where contestants presented ideas to Ethan, Peter, and Devin Nash to get live feedback.

About Peter Mueller

Peter is the Co-Founding Partner at Breakwater Ventures, a pre-seed and seed fund that invests in exceptional founding teams across the US and Canada with a preference for founding teams in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.

Before starting Breakwater, Peter was a Partner at SeaChange Fund, an early employee at Carta, an Equity Research Analyst covering TMT at Merrill Lynch, and worked at several private equity firms.

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About Ethan Evans

Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.
Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).

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