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Nathaniel Harding | Spotting the Potential for Explosive Growth: Podcast

Jul 29, 2020

Nathaniel Harding saw a gap in the venture capital world and has rushed to fill it. As he puts it: “There’s a lot of opportunity with startups happening and a lot of innovation in various sectors enabled by technology in different forms. But there’s not enough...

Nathaniel Harding Speaks to StitchCrew about VC in Oklahoma

May 23, 2020

Eighty percent of all venture capital is spent on three coastal states. Unfortunately, this statistic often leads founders to think they need to move to California, Massachusetts or New York to build a high growth company. Nathaniel Harding, Managing Partner at...

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