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Andre Iguodala Says Wearables Can Help Win Championships
At Disrupt yesterday, one of the most interesting talks was with Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala. Other than being the MVP of the latest NBA Championship series, Iguodala is a businessperson. He’s looking for cool companies to work with, fun projects to work on and the latest in Silicon Valley trends. It sure helps that he’s on the Golden State Warriors, a team… Read More
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Ron Conway And Topher Conway From SV Angel: “There’s No Bubble”
Disrupt SF started off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch founder and CrunchFund investor Michael Arrington peppered them with questions about the landscape of Silicon Valley. Launching Startups The Kogi Way: Three Lessons From The Food Truck Pioneer
Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I’ve learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined the founding team of Kogi BBQ with Chef Roy Choi in 2008, all we had was a food truck and “seed funding” from a maxed-out credit card. We had no idea that it would change the entire food… Read More
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Meet Kima’s New Team, With Jean De La Rochebrochard And Vincent Jacobs As Partners
You can call this Kima Ventures 2.0 — the very active French early stage fund has a brand new structure, which could significantly change the firm’s investment strategy. Jean De La Rochebrochard is leaving French startup accelerator TheFamily to join Kima as a partner. Existing Kima team member Vincent Jacobs is also becoming a partner based in London. Read More
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The Next Food Frontier: How AgTech Can Save The World
As investors, our job is to find the visionaries that dream up the future and partner with them to help make that dream a reality. In agriculture, with the latest advancements in technology, we half imagined small harvesting robots, skyscraper vertical farms in every city and sensor-studded fields overseen by drones. Read More
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The SaaS Success Database
What does it take to build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise-software company? We gave a 30,000-foot answer to this complex — and fascinating — question in a recent TechCrunch post, The SaaS Adventure. To recap: We’ve observed seven key phases in most SaaS companies’ go-to-market success. We dubbed this journey the “SaaS Adventure,” which is broadly how we… Read More
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The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation
One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates how a company should spend its marketing and sales dollars. Unfortunately, many early stage startups struggle to measure LTV, because they haven’t been around very long and, consequently… Read More
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Mobile Exits Drop Below Investments For First Time Since 2013
It’s been party time for mobile, with massive growth and disruption helping VCs to raise huge funds, entrepreneurs to raise massive rounds, and valuations to skyrocket. With 89 mobile Internet unicorns now worth almost $1 trillion, it’s no surprise that folks from Silicon Valley to Shanghai are asking what’s going on with return on investment. Read More
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Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware
“Hey Robot, make me a sandwich,” I yelled over the ruckus of Y Combinator Demo Day’s break room. The traditional catered lunch had been replaced with a new buffet: hardware startups. Sandwichbots, teabots, futuristic shower heads, and Internet-connected mattress covers lined the room’s perimeter inside Mountain View’s Computer History Museum. Read More
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Tech808 Merges The Worlds Of Hip-Hop And Entrepreneurship
This past Saturday in Oakland, CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHub Oakland for Tech808, an intimate startup conference inspired by hip-hop.
“From the very beginning of hip-hop’s evolution as a culture and a music, it’s been entrepreneurial… Read More
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