Get to know Mark Loranger, who runs the Square Roots Program @ Square 1 Bank. Square Roots is completely dedicated to serving the banking needs of promising startups so if you are a tech entrepreneur you'll learn all about what services Mark's program provides for their clients.

In this conversation we explore such topics as:

:43 What the heck is a venture bank?

2:25 What is the Square Roots Program?

3:40 What services do they provide for their clients?

4:35 What types of companies they work with

6:03 What is their portfolio like?

7:10 Costs, etc... why it's pretty much free, etc.

8:42 Discussion of Startup Genome Project

10:20 Trends Square 1 is seeing in Angel/VC investing

11:40 Convergence of Seed Rounds and Series A in 2010

13:40 How this convergence resembles pro-wrestling!? :)

16:09 Bubble(s) Forming? What's happening in 2011?

16:27 Ron Conway/Yuri Milner/Y combinator

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