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| Sep 22, 2020 | Today's Entrepreneur: Justine Lassoff | If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to change the world
Today's entrepreneur is Justine Lassoff, co-founder of LOVE GOODLY, an ecommerce platform for natural, eco products through curated trial boxes that with each purchase supports a c... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Bullpen closes its third fund at $75 million to back post-seed stage startups | Bullpen Capital, a venture firm that specializes in post-seed stage deals, has closed its third fund at $75 million.
The firm invests in companies that previously closed a seed round of investment and showed solid signs of traction, but hav... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | At Post Seed: what will Trump mean for Silicon Valley? | Two of our hosts support change and Trump, while the majority appear to be against him
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut ... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | CNN acquires the team behind video-sharing platform Beme | The company will be launching a new media brand dedicated to video content tied to breaking news
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Ayd... |
| Nov 23, 2016 | Early stage VC SV Angel raises $53M for its sixth fund | The angel firm has invested in Pinterest, Airbnb, Stripe, Hipmunk, Snapchat and Foursquare
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Sen... |
| Nov 19, 2016 | Meet angel investor Dan Scheinman | Scheinman has invested in SentinelOne, Zoom, Kodiak Data, Tango and Testim.io
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis)... |
| Nov 18, 2016 | It's official: FanDuel and DraftKings are becoming one | The company will be run by DraftKings CEO Jason Robins, with FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles as Chairman
After months of rumors and speculation that FanDuel and Draftkings were getting ready to combine forces, the two companies have finally made i... |
| Nov 18, 2016 | What will happen to healthtech under Trump? | As with everything when it comes to Trump, nobody really knows
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis), Jeff Lawson (... |
| Nov 12, 2016 | Meet John Durant, General Partner at Wild Ventures | Founded by the author of "The Paleo Manifesto," Wild Ventures invests in healthy living
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Ay... |
| Nov 10, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Daniela Corrente | No. 1 mistake: Build a product before finding a market fit
Today's entrepreneur is Daniela Corrente, CEO and CoFounder at Reeelit.
Reeelit enables shoppers to save in daily installments for what they want, while looking for deals. No debt, ... |
| Nov 10, 2016 | How does 23andMe make money? | The genetics company sells a DNA analysis kit to consumers and collaborates with researchers
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin S... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Video: LeadGenius Anand Kulkarnis' fundraising lessons | Founder & President of LeadGenius shares his Splash Talk at SplashX
At our inaugural SplashX event last July 28, 2016, VC Panel Anand Kulkarni, Founder, President, & Chief Scientist of LeadGenius, which just raised $10 million in a ... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Talent marketplace Hired adds $30M to its Series C | With every industry hungrier than ever for talent, this company is stacking up cash and clients
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydi... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Video: At our inaugural SplashX, July 28,2016 - 99designs | David Kaplan shared how 99designs raised a round when VC funding dried up
At our inaugural SplashX event last July 28, 2016, VC Panel David Kaplan, CFO of 99designs, a fast-growing on-demand marketplace for freelance graphic designers, shar... |
| Nov 5, 2016 | Meet Paul Arnold, founder of Switch Ventures | Arnold was a senior executive at AppDirect, and started Switch Ventures in 2014
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felici... |
| Nov 4, 2016 | Video: Fireside chat Adam Goldenberg and Bambi Francisco | Adam Goldenberg, CEO & Founder of JustFab, gave us an overview of how his company is doing
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Adam Goldenberg, Co-CEO Techstyle Fashion satdown with Bambi Francisco, Founder & CEO, Vator ... |
| Nov 4, 2016 | When Twilio was young: the early years | Contrary to expectations, the cloud telephone company repeatedly reduced prices as it scaled
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming upon Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Se... |
| Nov 3, 2016 | ArbiClaims brings arbitration to the sharing economy | The seed-funded legal tech startup won the "runner up" prize at Vator Splash LA 2016
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin... |
| Nov 3, 2016 | Video: Doubledutch Founder Lawrence Coburn's startup lessons | How the company came up with its mobile events app and trials and tribulations of getting to scale
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Lawrence Coburn, Founder & CEO, Doubledutch in a Splash Talk.
Splash is Vator's startup c... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Spotify acquires customer success company Preact | Preact uses big data and machine learning so companies can better hold onto their customers
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Se... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Video: Lightspeed VP, Mucker Capital and Wavemaker Partners on LA startup scene | At Vator Splash LA 2016, panelists:Erik Rannala, Eric Manlunas and Alex Taussig discussed over lunch
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Jefferson Graham (Columnist, USA Today) moderated the Lunch Time Panel. The panelists of th... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Ian Stephens | No. 1 mistake: Going it alone or being terrible at delegation
Today's Entrepreneur is Ian Stephens. Ian is a Founder and CEO at Magnolia Moonshine and a Co-Founder and CMO at Reely.
Magnolia Moonshine Cocktails are old-fashioned recipes mad... |
| Nov 1, 2016 | Video: LA's Most Exciting Growth Stories | Fireside chat: Leura Fine and Sean Brecker shared Growth stories with Eva Ho
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Eva Ho (Managing Partner, Fika Ventures) as Moderator and Leura Fine (Founder & CEO, Laurel & Wolf), Sean B... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: David Laiderman | No. 1 mistake: Fail to forecast
Today's Entrepreneur is David Laiderman. David is a Founder at OPER (Order. Pay. Earn. Redeem).
OPER (Order. Pay. Earn. Redeem) is the first mobile payment of it's kind offering free transactions to merchants... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Thiel: the most conventional thing I've done is back Trump | "The first time I've done something big in my life that was just what half the country believed in"
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social ... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Study highlights racial discrimination in Uber, Lyft | Like Airbnb, the biggest ridesharing apps in the U.S. facilitate racist behavior toward users
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin ... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Video: Splash Talk - Startup M&A Framework | My new book on startup acquisitions: Magic Box Paradigm
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event Oct. 13 2016, Ezra Roizen, founder of Advsr in a Splash Talk. Here is the video.
Get a copy of Ezra Roizen's Magic Box Paradigm: A framework for start... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Wearables have bounced back in 2016, thanks to Magic Leap | It raised $793M, putting wearables on pace to raise $1.9 billion this year
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis), J... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Thiel: Trump will make America "a normal country" | Thiel says Trump will change the type of thinking that led to the financial and housing bubbles
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydi... |
| Oct 29, 2016 | Meet Howard Hartenbaum of August Capital | Hear how the general partner makes Series A investments in "consumer-like" startups
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin ... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Video: Fireside Chat with Tri Tran and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016 - Tri Tran shares lessons learned
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Tri Tan, Founder & CEO, Munchery sat down with sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside C... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | London court rules that Uber drivers are employees | Drivers for the ridesharing company in the UK entitled to minimum wage, other benefits, says court
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), A... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Cullen Gallagher | No. 1 mistake: Completely giving up on entrepreneurship after failures
Today's Entrepreneur is Cullen Gallagher. Cullen Gallagher is a Co-Founder and CEO at Reely.
Reely is an end-to-end content solution for sports leagues and content provi... |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Uber brings surge pricing to UberEATS | Customers should prepare to pay higher delivery fees during busy times due to lack of drivers
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin ... |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Video: Fireside Chat with Andre Haddad and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016 - Andre Haddad shared lessons learned
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Andre Haddad, CEO, Turo sat down with sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside Chat.
See ... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | Video:Fireside chat Nick Green and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016, Nick Green shared lessons learned
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Nick Green, Founder & CEO, Thrive Market sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside Chat.
... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | 85 percent of Thrive Market’s customers are women | Health consciousness isn't reserved for urban coastal hipsters
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis), Jeff Lawson (... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Cody Barbo | No. 1 mistake: Not seeking out mentors
Today's Entrepreneur is Cody Barbo. Cody is a Founder and CEO at Industry. He is an entrepreneur from California.
Industry is a professional network, marketplace, and hiring solution for top talent in ... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Are Lyft and Uber going to kill public transportation? | After laying waste to the taxi industry, ridesharing may now threaten public buses and trains
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin ... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Spotify rejects exclusive content for more original content | The company released its first 12 original series earlier this year, and vows to do more
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senku... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Vator Splash LA winner Industry raises $2.3M seed financing | Fresh off the Splash stage, the LinkedIn for hospitality gets funding
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis), Jeff L... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | On demand cannabis delivery service Eaze raises $13M | The company will use the funding to expand to new markets in California
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis), Jeff... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | New York Times buys The Wirecutter, gets into e-commerce | Product review site The Wirecutter makes money by linking to merchants, and taking a cut of the sale
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital),... |
| Oct 22, 2016 | Meet Semil Shah, General Partner at Haystack | In addition to founding Haystack, Shah is also a Venture Partner at GGV Capital
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felici... |
| Oct 22, 2016 | Where do Trump and Clinton stand on cannabis? | Though the GOP candidate's a wild card, neither seems eager to crack down on legal cannabis markets
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), ... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | How does WeWork make money? | The coworking company rents out desk space (and now living space) to its members
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felic... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Video: Fireside Chat with Mark Cuban and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016 - Mark Cuban speaks and judge
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Mark Cuban, owner, Dallas Mavericks sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside Chat.
See more cover... |
| Oct 18, 2016 | Rejected by VCs, Thrive Market raised $10M anyway | VCs weren't aware of the trend Thrive was pursuing, so the business turned to influencers
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senk... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | Turo believes in self-driving and self-funded cars | In the next 20 years, even individually owned cars will have some self-driving technology
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Senk... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | When Munchery was young: the early years | Hundreds of meals served four months after launch; over 200,000 meals served by its third year
Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming upon Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin ... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Ian Chen | No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs: Not controlling their burn rate
Today's Entrepreneur is Ian Chen, co-founder of Discotech. Discotech is the OpenTable for Nightlife. Its free to download mobile app allows users to discover events, reserve table... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Lou Tomassetti | No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs: You will know soon enough who you can and cannot rely on
Today's entrepreneur is Lou Tomassetti, co-founder of Smartrazor. This innovation is very exciting and is the first major reinvent of razors in hundreds o... |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Jibin Jose | Top lesson learned as an entrepreneur: Perseverance is key
Today's Entrepreneur is Jibin Jose. Jibin is the Co-Founder of RideBlock, which is focused on developing cutting edge IOT devices & tracking devices for action sports to track t... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Transcript: Alfred Lin at Post Seed 2015 | Early-stage strategy talks with Bambi Francisco of Vator
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alfred Lin, Partner of Sequoia Capital, sat down with Bambi Francisco (Vator) over a Fireside Chat.
Fireside chat w... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Transcript: Scott Kupor on early-stage venture financing | Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz at Post Seed Conference 2015
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Scott Kupor (Andreessen Horowitz) sat down with Semil Shah (Haystack) over a Fireside Chat.
Fireside ch... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Transcript: Vinod Khosla at Post Seed 2015 | Silicon Valley investor talks VC strategies with Semil Shah of Haystack
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, sat down with Bambi Francisco (Vator) over a Fireside Chat... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Transcript: John Doerr at Post Seed 2015 | Legendary Silicon Valley VC talks early-stage VC strategy with Paul Martino of Bullpen Capital
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, John Doerr, General Partner of Kleiner Perkins, sat down with Paul Martino (B... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Video: Post Seed CEOs share fundraising stories | Founders from Filament, Homelight, Namely, Classy and Scripted at Post Seed 2015
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Cory Johnson, Editor-at-large at Bloomberg, moderated the panel "Post-Seed CEOs".... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | Video: What Unicorns looked like at Series A/ Post-Seed | At Post Seed 2015, VCs from Javelin, Lowercase, Shasta, IVP and Intel share insight
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alex Konrad, Staff Writer at Forbes moderated the panel "What Unicorns looked like ... |
| Dec 14, 2015 | Video: Vinod Khosla and Bambi Francisco at Post Seed 2015 | Khosla Ventures' Founder shares early-stage strategies at Bullpen, Vator, Venture51's VC even
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, sat down with Bambi Francisco (Vator... |
| Dec 11, 2015 | Video: Alfred Lin and Bambi Francisco at Post Seed 2015 | Sequoia Capital's Lin talks early-stage strategy at Bullpen, Vator and Venture51's annual VC event
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alfred Lin, Partner of Sequoia Capital, sat down with Bambi Francisco (Va... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Video: John Doerr and Paul Martino at Post Seed 2015 | Kleiner Perkins' Doerr talks VC strategy, unicorns at Bullpen, Vator, Venture51's annual VC event
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, John Doerr, General Partner of Kleiner Perkins, sat down with Paul Martino... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Google acquisitions demonstrate why unicorns are doomed | At Post Seed, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins explains the basic math behind the unicorn problem
Most people in the technology industry now know a unicorn as something far from mythological.
Today there are nearly 150 of the strange creatures... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Video: Scott Kupor & Semil Shah at Post Seed 2015 | Andreessen Horowitz's Kupor talks early-stage venture at Bullpen, Vator, and Venture51's VC event
At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Scott Kupor (Andreessen Horowitz) sat down with Semil Shah (Haystack) over... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Vinod Khosla: even VCs could be replaced by machine learning | When that happens society will need to do something to fix the inevitable income inequality
On Tuesday, we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote speakers who... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Alfred Lin: start your fund, even if it's not the best time | 'It only gets more competitive. It never gets less competitive in this world,' he said
On Tuesday we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote speakers who we we... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Vinod Khosla: companies need a good base camp to succeed | Too many VCs don't provide good base camps in order to make companies safe and predictable, he said
On Tuesday, we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote spea... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Every unicorn needs a nemesis | Investors from Shasta, Javelin, Intel, IVP, and Lowercase discuss unicorns at the Series A
Today, there are 145 private companies valued at $1 billion and above. But they all started somewhere.
Identifying a startup that will eventually be ... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Doerr: “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.” | If you look at the "basic math," unicorns may be pointing us to a new bubble
Think you have an amazing, incredible, billion-dollar idea for a startup that will completely transform the world and the way we live? Well John Doerr, a... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Vinod Khosla: founders should be realistic but ambitious | If an entrepreneur is focused on valuation, that is 'the wrong way to look at a company'
On Tuesday, we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote speakers who jo... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Alfred Lin on what it takes to get a Series A today | The proof points haven't changed since his days at LinkExchange, even if the rounds are bigger now
On Tuesday we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote speake... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Don't freak out: The venture capital cooldown is OK | Post seed brings together Freestyle.vc, Redpoint, Walden Venture Capital, Bullpen, and Science
In today’s slowing venture market, what does it take for startups to make the cut?
That was the overarching question for one session at yesterday... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Why John Doerr is bullish on disrupting healthcare | Healthcare is six times bigger than the global advertising market, says the Kleiner Perkins VC
John Doerr has always been about backing entrepreuners with really big visions. That's how Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the firm he's se... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Sequoia Capital’s Alfred Lin On Why Uber’s Valuation Is Twice That Of Airbnb’s | Today, at the Post-Seed conference in San Francisco, Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Zappos and now a Sequoia Capital partner, was asked a variety of on-stage questions about the current market.
Among them was whether Lin thinks it’s ... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Alfred Lin: why it's different to invest in Airbnb vs Uber | Lin calls Sequoia passing on Uber investment, 'A big failure on our part'
On Tuesday we hosted our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51.
One of the keynote speakers who were proud to welc... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | John Doerr: The five criteria of great Series A investments | At Post Seed, Kleiner Perkins VC spells out the five things he seeks before backing a company
Today we're hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event at Ruby Skye in San Francisco to discuss the world of entrepreneurship and v... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | Zuckerberg and Gates form new cleantech initiative | The Breakthrough Energy Coalition will invest in early stage startups in energy and agriculture
The clean energy space, or cleantech, was going to be the next big thing in the late part of the 2000s, or the aughts, or whatever you want to c... |
| Nov 28, 2015 | Meet Paul Martino, Managing Partner of Bullpen Capital | Martino s the founder of four companies, including Aggregate Knowledge and Ahpah Software
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... |
| Nov 27, 2015 | Healthiest is the Honest Company for your medicine cabinet | The company curates bundled natural products that help treat common and chronic health issues
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more... |
| Nov 27, 2015 | Alfred Lin to speak at Post Seed 2015 | Lin is a Partner at Sequoia Capital; he was previously the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event, co-hosted by Bullpen Capital and Venture51, on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisc... |
| Nov 25, 2015 | This year, I'm thankful that unicorns are starting to fade | Sanity is finally returning to the market!
To be totally honest with you, I've never gotten the fascination that people have with unicorns. Call me curmudgeon (I prefer realist), but it's just a horse with an extra thingy on its head, right... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | New unicorn? DoorDash reportedly valued at $1 billion | Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital-backed startup looking to be first restaurant delivery unicorn
Say hello to the newest unicorn.
If the latest reports are true, food delivery service DoorDash is in talks to raise a new round of funding a... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | Will John Doerr talk bubbles & unicorns at Post Seed? | The VC legend has invested in every round from Series A to growth-stage, from Google to Uber
Amazon. Google. Twitter.
I’d love to know how many people reading this haven’t used one of these services today. And I wonder: what would a major i... |
| Nov 23, 2015 | Global exits grow 28% year over year in Q3, but dip from Q2 | There was not a single unicorn exit during the quarter, as 54 percent exited for less than $50M
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw mo... |
| Nov 20, 2015 | Video: Upfront Ventures' Kara Nortman on landing a Series A | At Vator Splash LA, Nortman talks about what VCs look for in startups
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Kara Nortman, Partner at Upfront Ventures, talked about helping VCs find conviction and what you’ll Need to Close Your Grown Up Round.
Thanks to ... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Video: Christ Church's Bart Garrett on startup pitch decks | At Vator Splash LA 2015, Garrett's insightful talk on knowing ourselves
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Bart Garrett, Founder and Senior Pastor at Christ Church, talked about what’s missing from your pitch deck? What every entrepreneur needs to kn... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Square rallies with 24 percent pop in IPO | Debut on NYSE jumps from $9 to $11.20, with a high for the day reaching $14.78
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more than 500 atten... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Ola raises $500 million to fend off Uber in India | New funding arrives a month after a regulatory victory in India opened door to ride-hailing services
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to dr... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Facebook keeps its word, activates Safety Check in Nigeria | Sadly, it only took a few days for Facebook to have to activate it for another human-caused incident
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to dr... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | TestCloud becomes test IO, raises $5M and expands to the US | Test IO is a Berlin-based self-service crowdtesting platform for app and Web developers
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more than ... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Video: JustFab's Adam Goldenberg on building teams | At Vator Splash LA 2015, JustFab Founder & CEO shares studies that can help select teams
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Adam Goldenberg, Founder and CEO of JustFab, talked about the data that he discounted.
Thanks to our main sponsors Wilson ... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Percent of down rounds for later-stage startups jumps to 11% | New data shows median increases dropped to their lowest level since Q3 2014
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more than 500 attendee... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Spotify introduces new dashboard, gives data to artists | The company doesn't have the best relationship with artists, so perhaps this is a way of making nice
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to dr... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Investments in smaller U.S. tech hubs rose 36% in 2014 | NY, California and Boston still make up 75% of investments, but the rest of the country is rising
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw ... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Mark Zuckerberg talks Facebook's vision, its big bet on VR | Facebook's clear focus separates it from companies like Alphabet, and VR is a big part of the vision
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to dr... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Video: SideReel's Roman Arzhintar on being a startup CEO | At Vator Splash LA 2015, Arzhintar talks about how to be an awesome CEO
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Roman Arzhintar, Founder and CEO of SideReel, tackled about CEO’ing for startups and how to become a well-rounded CEO.
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| Nov 16, 2015 | Facebook will open up Safety Check for more human disasters | The company came under fire for giving Safety Check to France, while ignoring Beruit a day earlier
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Expect more unicorns to be downsized, Fred Wilson warns | Companies like Snapchat, Dropbox, Zenefits and Dataminr have all had their values marked down
We are hosting our second annual Post Seed (#postseedconf) event on Dec. 1 at Ruby Skye in San Francisco. The event - which we expect to draw more... |
| Nov 15, 2015 | Bambi Francisco on the expansion of US ownership in startups | At Vator Splash LA 2015, Francisco on private markets equivalent to public markets circa 1980's
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder and CEO of Vator, talked about how the private market is similar to where the public ma... |
