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| Apr 8, 2022 | What Glossier got wrong | Evan J. Zimmerman Contributor
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Evan J. Zimmerman is the founder and CEO of Drift, a genomics software company, and chairman of Jovono, a venture capital firm.
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| Oct 13, 2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Unlike other types of institutional investors, venture capitalists love to share business know-how.
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| Jan 13, 2021 | Pace launches out of private beta with a plan to scale virtual group therapy | One in five people have a mental health illness. Pace, a new startup founded by Pinterest and Affirm executives, wants to pay attention to the other four in that statistic.
“Nobody is perfectly mentally healthy all the time,” said Jack Chou... |
| Sep 25, 2019 | Bodega, once dubbed ‘America’s most hated startup,’ has quietly raised millions | What’s in a name?
More than two years ago, Fast Company published a story with the headline “Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete.” The focus of the story was a nascent startup by the name of Bodega .
... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | ‘The best VC on Instagram’ is now VC-backed | About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name of @thingtesting.
The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of the London startup ecosystem as an investor with the British seed fund Backed.VC, wo... |
| May 31, 2018 | A better way to fund SaaS companies | My company, Pingboard, announced a $5 million round of funding today. We now have more than 1,000 customers globally, including companies like GoFundMe, Popsugar, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, WPEngine, and the Linux Foundation. You probably hear... |
| May 31, 2018 | A better way to fund SaaS companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
My company, Pingboard, announced a $5 million rou... |
| Oct 19, 2017 | Twitter bans ‘Hateful Display Names’ and shares Safety road map | Twitter has committed to a specific timeline for rolling out changes to its Safety features, and announced new policies, including a ban on hateful display names, and improvements for second-hand “witness reporting” of abuse.
By January, Tw... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: August 4, 2017 | What are our partners reading this week? News about our portfolio companies, macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| Aug 17, 2016 | Why tech companies are making Election Day a holiday | In March, Slack engineer Erica Baker fired off a quick series of tweets about the upcoming presidential election.
“Ok VCs, CEOs, and company decision makers who follow me. Start planning now to make November 8 a day off. We need people to b... |
| Jul 6, 2016 | (Some) LPs speak up | Venture capital used to be such an insular, under-the-radar industry that entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen has said that he’d never heard the term before arriving in the Bay Area in 1994. He’s hardly alone. It wasn’t until the mid- to ... |
| Oct 10, 2015 | Meet Hunter Walk, Founder of Homebrew VC | Walk was a product manager at Google before co-founding Homebrew with Satya Patel in 2013
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.
What everyone can agree on, though, is that there... |
| Sep 25, 2015 | Dextro Refines Its Video Discovery Strategy with Sight, Sound & Motion | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just a few months after unveiling its software to analyze live video in real-time, Dextro is trying to up its game in the somewhat frothy video discovery sector.
CEO and co-fo... |
| Aug 10, 2015 | MAKING THE FOUNDER’S TOP FIVE | This article was originally posted by Brad Harrison on August 5, 2015. The original can be viewed here.
Yesterday morning I read a blog post from a colleague, Hunter Walk, where he talks about competition in the seed stage. Essentially, he... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | Why A Values Fit Matters More Than A Culture Fit | David Hassell Contributor
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| Feb 21, 2015 | Hunter Walk and Satya Patel's Homebrew raises $50M fund | The firm also announced that it raised a $35 million follow-on fund, called Moonshine
Homebrew, a seed-stage fund started by former Google and Twitter executives Hunter Walk and Satya Patel, launched in 2013 to focus on what it calls tje &q... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Can service startups pay contract workers well? This investor says yes | On-demand and delivery services have radically changed how some of us do things like getting from point A to point B, eating food, mailing packages, cleaning house, and more.
But what about your on-demand driver or the friendly face picking... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | Commentary: Why I’m long on Lyft | Photo via Lyft
The general consensus is that Uber is dominating Lyft. It’s no secret. Uber’s growth and execution has been a work of beauty, virtually unmatched by any tech startup in history.
While most of my friends regularly use Uber, I’... |
| Nov 30, 2014 | Facebook, Google, And Twitter’s War For App Install Ads | An unexpected consequence of our love of apps is that now there’s just too damn many of them. The app stores are overcrowded, leaving developers desperate for a way to get their games and utilities discovered. That is why the app install ad... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Tipping Tuesday | One of the most promising use cases for Bitcoin is micropayments. And one of the most promising use cases for micropayments is funding content. There are two primary ideas for how to do this with micropayments.
1) A paywall that requires a ... |
| Sep 22, 2014 | “We’re passing but stay in touch” – how to build a relationship with a VC even if he doesn’t invest | Many founders send our periodic “friends of…” emails with updates on the product, business, team. Perfectly acceptable – and IMO not spammy – to add any investor to this list proactively with whom you had a good rapport. If you want to be s... |
| Jul 24, 2014 | How VCs can help us solve tech’s problem with women | Everyone in tech seems to be talking loudly about the industry’s problem with women. Google and other Internet giants are self-reporting the grim gender gap in their companies, and making some laudable efforts to address it.
Tech media site... |
| Jun 9, 2014 | Money doesn’t talk: Why some startups don’t announce seed financings any more | Clinical Care Capacity Planning
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| Apr 3, 2014 | You’re Either Venture-Backed or a Lifestyle Business: The Big Lie | The following piece was written by Hunter Walk of San Francisco VC firm Homebrew, and I reproduced it here because I thoroughly agree with Hunter and I feel that we don’t have to focus on the massive scalable startups, small and lifestyle s... |
| Mar 15, 2014 | Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps | VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning “anonymish” app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb and violence threats have pushed the vo... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | The Pro-Rata Participation Right | I’ve touched on this subject before. It is one the “three things you must have in a venture investment“.
The “pro-rata right” is the right to continue to participate in future rounds so that you can maintain your ownership. Let’s make it co... |
| Feb 23, 2014 | What Comes Next? | Andy posted this fascinating Playboy interview with Nick Denton on usv.com yesterday. I read it this morning over a Cortado at Kava. I loved every bit of it. Nick is opinionated, intelligent, and interesting.
Here is one part of the intervi... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Feature Friday: Tech Circle and Editorial Assistant | Some of you noticed that Zemanta Tech Circle did not make the cut in the new AVC redesign. That’s sort of true and sort of not true.
Zemanta’s oldest product, the one that got me to invest in the company, is a compose window assistant that ... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | Google could still win social — by redefining what social means | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is the second in a series looking at the sta... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | Google could still win social — by redefining what social means | This is the second in a series looking at the state of social at Facebook’s 10th anniversary. Yesterday, I looked at how Facebook is being too conservative and isn’t taking big risks.
Disclosure: I’m long Google ($GOOG) and Apple ($AAPL). A... |
| Oct 12, 2013 | Will AngelList help or hurt startup fundraising? | Angel in Guisley. Photo via Baldur McAqueen
The fall of 2013 will be looked at as the turning point in fundraising for early-stage startups. The JOBS Act — including the acceptance of ”General Solicitation” — has indeed changed the game for... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | This Week In Silicon Alley (Tech@NYU Startup Week, Hack n Jill, Startup Job Fair, Canadian Demo Night, Israel Tech, SwitchPitch) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | The Startup Investing World Got Turned On Its Head Over The Weekend, And VCs Are Freaking Out | Flickr/Peter Kaminski
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The way startup companies get funded is changing, and its freaking traditional venture capitalists out.
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A company called AngelList came out with a new product called AngelList Syndicates.
... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | AngelList Syndicates By The Numbers: 12 Deals, $3.5M Raised, 199 Angels Activated Syndication With $5.6M Committed | This weekend, the Twittersphere and news cycle was dominated with the reactions of a number of VCs and angels to AngelList Syndicates. According to the data we’ve collected from AngelList, there has been an explosion of activity around Synd... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | The Startup Investing World Got Turned On Its Head Over The Weekend, And VCs Are Freaking Out | Flickr/Peter Kaminski
Jason Calacanis
The way startup companies get funded is changing, and its freaking traditional venture capitalists out.
A company called AngelList came out with a new product called AngelList Syndicates.
Through AngelL... |
| Sep 29, 2013 | How AngelList Syndicates could actually hurt some angels, help some VCs | AngelList, a site that helps angel investors invest in technology startups by providing screening information about the companies, last week announced AngelList Syndicates.
The new feature lets a trusted angel investor with a solid track re... |
| Sep 29, 2013 | Leading vs Following | Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes:
My guess is there are also some angels who were popular when they represented a $25k check but won’t be as sought afte... |
| Sep 29, 2013 | How AngelList Syndicates could actually hurt some angels, help some VCs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AngelList, a site that helps angel investors inve... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | People In The World Of Billion Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
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But what do the local business owners think?
Ventur... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | People In The World Of Billion Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | Advertisement
There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
But what do the local business owners think?
Ventur... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Lots Of People In The World Of Billion-Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | William Wei, Business Insider
There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
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But what do the local... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Lots Of People In The World Of Billion Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | William Wei, Business Insider
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There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
Complimentary Tech Ev... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Lots Of People In The World Of Billion-Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | William Wei, Business Insider
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There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
But what do the local... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Lots Of People In The World Of Billion Dollar Startups Are Passing Around This Interview With A Local Business Owner | William Wei, Business Insider
There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."
Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.
Advertisement
But what do the local... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | Here Is Your Black Out-Inducing Drinking Game for JOBS | Did you bring your preferred spirits?
Today, Ashton Kutcher’s take on Steve Jobs hits theaters. There’s a good chance many of you will decide to check it out. But you’ll probably want to be prepared, right? And by that we mean smuggle a fla... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | Former YouTuber launches $35M fund for startups that are building the 'bottom up economy' | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Former YouTube exec Hunter Walk and former Twitte... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | Hunter Walk And Satya Patel’s Homebrew Is A $35M Seed-Stage Fund To Invest In The “Bottom Up Economy” | Former Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk has been making angel investments for some time now, and recently began observing that although he was one of the smallest parts of the cap table, he often was the first call when it came to product or fu... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Facebook’s Copycat Strategy: All The Innovation It Needs | Facebook increasingly plays copycat to Twitter and other Silicon Valley upstarts when it comes to innovation, but with over 1.1 billion active users, Facebook can afford to be a fast follower. Indeed, the right strategy may well be to simpl... |
| Jun 23, 2013 | Video Killed The Instagram Star | Instagram, an app best known for photo-sharing, added video last week, as it (and parent Facebook) sought to defend against the advance of Twitter’s fast-growing video-sharing app, Vine. The hope was to give its users a whole new way to sha... |
| Jun 23, 2013 | Instagram Wanted To Be “Instagram For Video” Before It Was Cool | Calling Facebook a copycat isn’t particularly creative; not only did Myspace, Friendster and Makeoutclub have the whole social network thing down first, but Questions, Places, Poke, Messenger, Stickers and so on were all ideas stolen inspir... |
| May 21, 2013 | Cultural Learnings Of Silicon Valley For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Ukraine | Like you and a lot of other people in the Valley, I read the blogs snarking on the Valley, because nothing is funnier than making fun of people just like us, technology elite who download hot apps, ringtones and backgrounds all day and all ... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | App Install Ads Could Be The Growing Cash Calf Of Facebook’s Earnings | How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook’s app install ads. With the app stores overrun and every company going mobile, app install ads are Facebook’s big chance to ... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Whatever You Do, Don't Start A 'Video Discovery' Startup* | Fortune Live Media With the vast number of videos uploaded and shared on YouTube, many entrepreneurs have sought out solutions to help people find and manage relevant content.
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| Apr 19, 2013 | Whatever You Do, Don't Start A 'Video Discovery' Startup* | Fortune Live Media With the vast number of videos uploaded and shared on YouTube, many entrepreneurs have sought out solutions to help people find and manage relevant content.
But Hunter Walk, the former YouTube head of product, says video ... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Accel Closes $475M Fund To Invest Mainly In Europe And Israel, Focusing On Its Series A “Sweet Spot” | Accel Partners has just this morning announced another hefty fund of $475 million. It’s the company’s fourth fund for Accel London and will be used for investments across a wide range of technologies — consumer Internet, big data, cloud, Sa... |
| Mar 3, 2013 | Facebook’s News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse | Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and competition for space between posts may ... |
| Mar 3, 2013 | If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter | Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoug... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Rich Kids Of Google Glass | You know, I’m sort of jealous. Because I’ve eaten something like three po’boy sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I’ve wondered, as I was eating, where the odd name po’boy originated. But didn’t want to take out my grub... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Report: Google and Twitter execs team up for new fund | Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are forming a new $25 million VC fund called Homebrew
(Updated to reflect comment from Hunter Walk)
A new venture capital fund may be in the works, brought to you by former executives Google and Twitter.
Hunter W... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Hunter Walk Leaves Google After 9 Years To Start VC Firm With Satya Patel Called Homebrew | Earlier today, CNNMoney broke the news that well-known Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk and former Googler Satya Patel would be starting a new VC firm called Homebrew. What wasn’t known was whether Walk would be leaving Google to pursue Homebre... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | Has Facebook’s Reign Come And Gone Already? | A smart friend of mine, a longtime industry veteran, once shared with me an interesting observation about the companies that dominate the computing industry. His idea was that there’s always a top dog, a company that Bigfoots over everybody... |
| Dec 30, 2012 | I’m Bored. What’s Next? | It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored.
At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports o... |
| Nov 4, 2012 | Will Regulations Kill The Sharing Economy? | Earlier this week, Uber faced another challenge in its effort to disrupt urban transportation, as Chicago’s Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department proposed new regulations that would prohibit car services from using electronic ... |
| Aug 2, 2012 | The Platform Ecosystem Wars: Rome Is Burning | Editor’s note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch.
It is either a good week to be having a CrunchUp focusing on the faltering Fa... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Social Proof Is Dangerous | Hunter Walk has a post up suggesting that "social proof" is not as helpful of an indicator of startup quality as it once was.
I have always hated the idea of social proof. It's just the herd instinct at work. It's nonsense.
If you... |
| May 2, 2012 | Boomerang Calendar — scheduling done right | One of the downsides of being an investor is that you spend a lot of time in meetings. What’s worse is that most of these meetings need to be scheduled. And yes, in 2012, we all still mostly schedule meetings via email. Consequently, a fair... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | #BlackoutSOPA: How 87,000 People Taught Us About The Future of Online Activism | [Editor’s Note: The Stop Online Piracy Act, the House bill that wants to give content holders vast new powers to block web sites in the name of copyright protection, has been delayed despite an extensive lobbying campaign. The reason was wi... |
| How To Find A Startup Worth Working For | Article Source
Before you join a startup, put yourself in the mindset of a Venture Capitalist. You want to make sure that your investment (time), has the chance of delivering massive returns. For you, this can take a few forms: learning val... |
| “We’re passing but stay in touch” – how to build a relationship with a VC even if he doesn’t invest | It sucks to hear “no” and as an early stage investor, the law of numbers means I have to say it regularly. Sometimes I deliver it quickly, sometimes it’s after deliberation. But I try to always do it honestly with feedback because we can al... |
| Money doesn’t talk: Why some startups don’t announce seed financings any more | Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding. Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1M+ in revenue per annum. They just don’t feel the need to d... |
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| Odeia networking? Ex-funcionário do Google mostra como sobreviver | * Por Exame.com
O networking é o pesadelo de muita gente: passar horas em eventos, trocando cartões e firmando relacionamentos com desconhecidos, pode parecer uma tortura para quem não está acostumado a “fazer social”.
O empreendedor Hunter... |
