The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

Whether it was HBO turning pedicabs into Thrones again or Brivo Labs handing out webcam covers (the company launched a security API, and privacy was a hot topic due to appearances by Snowden and Assange) – brands that made strong connections between their offering, their audience, and their shtick were clear winners this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Unit Economics Accelerating One topic I heard a lot in investor circles last year and in the press a lot was that there weren’t good unit economics and therefore the scooter market was never going to perform well. It’s truly staggering to realize that just a year ago we really hadn’t begun nationalizing let along globalizing.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Pick-up times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

million fund in: Uber, Instagram, Docker and Twitter, amongst others. It’s always such a pleasure to spend time with you, learn from your perspectives and debate our topics of the day. I recently interviewed Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital. He then went on to build perhaps the largest single shareholding in Twitter.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two main challenges with this approach: 1) these addresses are long strings meant to be read by machines and 2) the identities, while secure, exist on blockchains where data transfer is becoming prohibitively expensive (a topic we’ll soon discuss in more detail), diminishing their ultimately utility for real world colloaboration.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I have long tried to raise awareness of the trade-off between growth & profits as outlined in this much read blog post on the topic (and please forward to your favorite journalist who often simply report that companies that aren’t profitable are bad). Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

drivers often drive for both Uber and Lyft). Uber + Uber Eats). And if you’re interested in exploring any of these topics in more detail, we recently published the third edition of A Guide to Marketplaces. . Supply is mostly non-unique (e.g. rides or food delivery).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Work/life balance has become a hot topic in the startup world. Now with the holidays in mind, you won’t find any wearables or Uber credits on my holiday list. Participants, aka “students,” can choose from hundreds of topics, ranging from tactical skills (ie. By Stephen Tanenbaum, co-founder and CEO of UGallery. Sound familiar?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But Troy has become a very successful tech investor in his own right having invested early in Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker and others. [Next week I’ll publish a 1-1 interview I did with Troy on Day 1 of the Upfront Summit.].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

1) Chose Uber-Specific Content For many, pinpointing what topic to cover is difficult. With the numerous proposals submitted, what makes your take on this topic unique? So, don’t go broad with a generic topic like: “Artificial Intelligence.” 4) Choose a Session Format Consider what session format best suits your topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. The beauty of working with uber talented teams is that no matter how experienced you are as a leader you’re always learning from your team if you’re willing to listen. It is he who first taught me this lesson. Eventually I did.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

Everyone from eBay to Uber to Upwork to Amazon uses a 5-star feedback system on competed transactions to accomplish two very distinct goals. I’ve blogged about this topic, see here. It made me realize that we’ve all been making a big mistake with feedback systems. In most marketplaces, we’ve been operating in a one size fits all mode.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2017

Cumulative — the Austin rideshare companies will do 25–40% more volume than when Uber & Lyft were here last year. Though Uber & Lyft are almost always secretive about their rideshare data — we believe they did a combined 350k rides last SXSW (Uber at 250k and Lyft at 100k). This implies a total market of 437k to 500k.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Higher Education Bubble Will Burst: People will wake up to the fact that all but a few (eg medical) university qualifications can be obtained online, for free, from the world’s best practitioners on those topics. Alternative education methods will emerge and gain more credibility.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I know you were on with probably with the Zen of Social Media Marketing, but I actually asked you to be on the show because it was marked by a post you did on LinkedIn where you talked about a topic that I think it's starting to get more buzz, but it's still a fairly relatively new term. And that's REO, not the band. Yeah, what's Google?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? If you want to read more on the burn rate topic I’ve written about it before. But many people aren’t in this situation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In the era of mobile, social, and the sharing economy, we’re seeing the emergence of next-gen mobile-enabled marketplaces in every ecommerce category, from fashion ( Poshmark ), to health ( Brighter and HealthTap ), lodging ( Airbnb and HotelTonight ), transportation ( Uber and Lyft ), and real estate ( Zillow ).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Uber uses short-form video posts with concise copy to educate followers, including CTA links for users to learn more. . This is what CXL specializes in and what its audience cares about, which allows for engaging conversations on a range of relevant topics. Rules help to keep things civil and on topic. By comparison, only 1.7%

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. One topic Fred has been writing about for many years is the geographic diversity at his firm, USV.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here he writes about a topic (vesting cycles) that often is incorrectly positioned as ‘founders vs investors’ but actually has a lot more to do with the commitment founders want to make to one another and to their company. Where we like Uber Eats delivered meals but also the Eras Tour?

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 13, 2019

Many of the most successful companies have found and turned their flywheel and I have added an illustration of Amazon’s and Uber’s flywheel below: Amazon’s flywheel. Uber’s flywheel. Also listen to a great Recode Decode podcast hosted by Kara Swisher, where she discusses the topic with Collins: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I have known Shervin, liked him and respected his big bets as a VC like Uber and Hyperloop. I have also met the young woman in the story, Austin Geidt, from Uber. And complete silence on this topic is what many of my female friends in the industry are telling me has been so hurtful about this past week.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The best take on this topic is to read directly what Greg has to say about it. But my take is this: We know that B2C crowdsourcing of tasks and products has started to play a transformative role in our economy from everything from Uber to Airbnb to TaskRabbit to DogVacay. Or what TechCrunch thinks. That’s where Deliv comes in.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

UberEats is the subsidiary of Uber that was launched in the year 2014. Initially, Uber launched its vertical in the food delivery services with the name UberFresh. In this regard, you can go for the development of UberEats like an app that is a hot topic on the Internet. UberEats – King Of Food Delivery Apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

In this post I don’t want to address those topics – I’m not a Facebook Fanboy. They felt that they didn’t want to create more Photobucket or YouTube successes. &# Why should these guys get uber rich off of our backs?&# Facebook took the long view. But I do want to address Mark’s decision-making.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

But I find NPR and BBC to be some of the most thoughtful, unbiased and far-reaching (in topics) sources of mass-reach information that exist. But there was a topic on my local NPR station, KPCC, that was about internships. Virgin America. Jon Stewart. Fareed Zakaria. David Brooks. NPR has been a part of my life for 25 years.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

The sponsoring partner will be given feedback on what some partners don’t like about the team, the market, the product, the competition or the deal terms and that partner may have to answer back on those topics at the next partner meeting or maybe even just later that day (depending on time sensitivity of the deal).

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MAY 2, 2015

In the real world you build board decks with financial information, administrative information and key strategic topics you’re trying to flesh out and decisions you’re trying to make or seeking approval on. Now we’re getting to a topic that CFOs will love. That’s fantasy. Here’s the dilemma.

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JUNE 9, 2013

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. Will this Trend Last?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

they account for 30% of the decision on whether or not a panel is accepted and can really help one stick out from others with the same topic. You just raised $10MM from Sequoia, you’re 3 co-founders, and you want to go hire the VP of Engineering from Uber. Your votes really count?—?they Growing a company is stage specific.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

John Jantsch (01:21): So I've, I try to go like at least every other show without mentioning the word COVID, but unfortunately there's too many topics or too many interviews where it's relevant. So a good example is like Uber versus Airbnb. What, obviously that's a giant topic, but just the thumbnail sketch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This seems a little bit off the topic, but it''s around this concept of, how do I convince people that what I''m doing is important? If you''re a Twitter user, is your first experience with Twitter just seeing a random list of tweets, or is it picking from a bunch of different topics that you''re interested in, or is it finding your friends?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. Topics of the day.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

The newsworthy moment was when Fred expressed his view that companies like Uber should go public. The video of the interview will be available this week and I will talk more about it then because the interview covered so many great topics. So back to Uber. This is likely a great deal of our success in the US.

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Haystack

AUGUST 31, 2018

I had been meaning for weeks to write a longer post on scooters, as an attempt to collect my thoughts on the topic, specifically around the market size, unit economics, and defensibility– but life got in the way. What I found myself reflecting on yesterday (bleeding into this morning) is that we do, indeed, live in a post-Uber world.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic. It started in healthcare.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Former Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, when dashcam footage of his argument with an Uber Black driver went public online in 2017. Your online commentary on politics, religion, social issues, or other hot-button topics has the potential to either deepen or disintegrate people’s trust in your brand. Success builds upon itself.

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