Itoday Apéro with John Zeratsky, designer, author, and investor

00:00 - Intro
02:15 - Introducing John Zeratsky
03:40 - John's journey in tech
05:40 - The creation of Character (VC)
08:19 - How to raise $30M
13:42 - His role at Google Ventures
16:05 - The advantage of being a designer in VC
18:50 - What Character will do differently than GV
23:06 - Facilitating design sprints for his own startups
26:12 - Picking the right startups: John's OATS decision making framework
31:05 - Relationships with startups
33:46 - How often do you sprint with your teams?
35:10 - Training the teams to run design sprints
37:25 - As an investor, do you facilitate differently?
42:48 - "Making time" for a design sprint (focus)
50:46 - The Brand Sprint and Opportunity Sprint
53:37 - Running a sprint before or after getting funded
57:16 - A roadmap for following up after a design sprint

#designsprint #venturecapital #innovation

John Zeratsky is the bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, with Jake Knapp, and former design partner at GV, (Google Ventures). Previously, John was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in 2007.

In December, John has officially announced his new venture: Character, a $30M seed fund, that supports technology startups with capital and design sprints.

* * * Links * * *

About John:

https://www.character.vc/
https://www.thesprintbook.com/
https://johnzeratsky.com/

The Brand Sprint:
https://library.gv.com/the-three-hour-brand-sprint-3ccabf4b768a

Itoday and Design Sprint Ltd:

https://itoday.ch/
http://design-sprint.com/