In this second part of a two-part episode of "What Scares Startups" our guest is Stewart Guenther. Stewart is the founder of vc-pert an advisory services firm, co-founder of The Venture Capital Roundtable, and venture partner of Viaduct Ventures. Stewart specializes in bridging Silicon Valley with early stage entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and centers of innovation.  With this focus, Stewart is a mentor and coach for SME’s developing and scaling their innovation, and larger corporations seeking to engage, invest and incorporate innovation.

A serial entrepreneur by nature, Stewart brings a wealth of investor, corporate growth and international experience, working with firms ranging from multi-billion-dollar corporations to start-up companies. Stewart has successfully promoted companies, products, services and technologies globally from concept through maturity and exit.Stewart’s expertise includes early stage ventures in global economies, seed/venture financing and structures, M&A and Exit strategies and execution, financial and expansion modeling, community/relationship development, product launch/marketing, and various other start-up related fields.  Stewart engages with select international start-ups and corporations on business planning, international expansion and capital sourcing.

In part 2 of our two-part series with Stewart, we discuss whether or not we have found ourselves in an almost "cult-ish" way of looking at the attributes of a startup founder and whether or not founders can be coached out of their tendency to wear this persona, provide some advice to founders on how to take their natural sense of fear and turn it into a leadership tool that will help their teams, backers, and home life, and then learning to make that approach part of your company's DNA in order to power you through those moments of uncertainty and fear together.

Again, so much good stuff here, so tune in to "What Scares Startups" to ensure you don't miss anything!