Hunter Walker
JANUARY 2, 2017
When Satya and I started Homebrew in 2013 one of our bets for the coming decades was that non-traditional acquirers would become more aggressive in their pursuit of technology startups. We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. Cruise was this.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. .
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2020
People, not just metrics. Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. Eric Ries : And pretty unusual among tech platforms, if we're being honest. That's not usually the way that tech companies have thought about people they derisively call users. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Decades, not quarters.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 4, 2021
Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. I don't see any big tech companies that have great cultures that are doing fully remote. But I couldn't get it out of my head.
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