Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Let’s say you’re creating a category. How do you do this when creating a new category? Recently, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint had the privilege of chatting with Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada about the way they created a category with customer success. I’ve since realized I was wrong.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

Influencer parenting bloggers are already putting together lists of their favorites items in these categories and sharing them broadly. This will speed up a transition that was already underway, and many organizations will likely continue to rely on these tools after they return to the office. Food Delivery. Virtual Health Services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Co-founder and chief executive officer TK Chen told TechCrunch that FunNow originally planned to start raising its Series B in 2020, before COVID hit. The app already had multi-channel reservation tools, so it began adapting the types of hotel reservations offered, adding daytime options, with stays of four, six or 12-hour increments.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. The flawed assumptions are now kind of obvious but when you’re running at a thousand miles an hour it’s easy to miss some signs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I also think that femtech is a hyped category but funding as well as renown exits are still missing. What gives me hope is to see that people find ways to still work together — the amount of online events, office hours, etc. What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? is incredible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies become industry leaders because of sparks: Ideas that lead to innovation, which shakes up a category. People still have great ideas in the shower, but most of the time, big advances happen after countless hours of market research, A-B testing and the like. Research makes sparks possible.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

They typically charge clients up to $1,200 per hour , and pay the expert $100 to $500 an hour. (I Guidepoint services 6 major categories of clients globally, across several industries. Given that you are hired on a per-hour or per-project basis, there is no fixed obligation of time. . You’re not beholden to this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the 4th and King Caltrain station, followed by a tiny office and then a slightly bigger one in the Flatiron building near Market Street.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

The credit card giant’s chief product officer Craig Vosburg said at the time: “At the heart of it, payments come down to choice — and people want more from their money with greater flexibility and control in how they pay and where they shop.”. And Mastercard, too, last year announced its own BNPL offering: Mastercard Installments.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

If you’re going to work for an hour a week, most people are comfortable knowing they may get paid, if at all, only a decade from now. But if you’re doing more than an hour a week, ask for more certainty of cash and/or equity compensation. The Part-Time Practitioner. Apollo Health Ventures. Clearvision Ventures. GoAhead Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Based out of Brisbane, Australia, Go1 has offices in London, the U.S., On average, an individual, when actively engaging on Go1, spends between two and six hours per month using the platform, and Barnes told me that its user base has grown by more than 300% in the last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Former Salesforce executive Craig Nile has taken a role as Modern Treasury’s new chief revenue officer to, in the company’s own words, “lead the company’s continuing push into enterprises.” He also dives into how Klarna has grown in different categories and which have been more successful than others. Check it out here.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For those of us in that category, we’re not really in a position to write $50K–$200K checks, and honestly, we don’t want startups to have crazy cap tables loaded with small-volume investors. People in my network call on me in the same way. Investors invest together. The majority of investors, something like 80%, have a net worth of $5M.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How do we, in our own office, simulate serendipity when some of us are remote? We have a simulation for the Roblox office that we’re playing around with inside of Roblox. I think there are 3 categories. How do people go to a concert with their friends when they can’t go together in person?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate enough to have Amy Smith, the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, share her perspective on this topic: “The start of the pandemic was a challenging time that provided many with the opportunity to pause, reflect and gain perspective, and this was no different for TOMS. That’s my modus operandi. Community ??

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We didn’t do marketing research; instead, we decided to try an inside approach: we left for India for six months with our entire small office. So, what difficulties can an experienced marketer have when creating an advertising office? It’s also important to note that, in India, most people can speak and understand English.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. Our portfolio company 3d Signals connects these machines to a cloud-based, AI-powered platform in a matter of hours. L earn More.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

It’s hard enough to get retail investors, but family offices and other large check writers are even more challenging to lure. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it. The company’s stock is off around 4% in after-hours trading. How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform. per share deficit.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has a “drones as a first responder” program that keeps officers and citizens safer and allows the department to respond to 911 calls more efficiently. And within under an hour, that car gets off the highway, and Palo Alto—who’s also a Flock customer—they get an alert.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

When a car stopped suddenly in front of him as he rode home tired in the early hours, it was the system’s warning signal that jerked him back to full attention. No longer do you need to go into a doctor’s office for routine health data collection, from blood to saliva to blood pressure to weight—you can do it all from the comfort of home.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It includes how those companies appear on local listings services like Yelp or TripAdvisor, or mapping apps like Google’s — which provide not just listings information like addresses and opening hours but also customer reviews — or social apps or location-based advertising.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Talk to me a little bit about how you came to the view, or whether you hold the view, that that is what we need, that a consumer-centered healthcare system is actually a good thing as opposed to a category of some kind. We have parents where both parents work, maybe I should shift my hours to 4:00 to midnight.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

We had a great private chat last week in my office about “how to be effective when using AngelList.&# He has set up an office, a process & people around him that are helpful to entrepreneurs in need of hands-on skills in a mass service way. It worked like a charm. I am impressed with his approach. So I thought, WTF?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. The volume grew so steady that I finally hopped on one, rode down to Bird’s offices and pleaded with Travis to take money from us. Forget the valuation?—?I

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my But the reality is that for some they live far from their offices and like any big city (maybe more so) the commute can be a bear. It’s a one hour flight all – this is not an issue. For some, it’s a nightmare.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

I have lived the 3,500 hours-a-year work life. Get a sense of where your 168 hours a week go. What would happen if you took 10 or 15 hours a week from those lower categories and put them into high-value categories? If you’re that busy, you’re most certainly missing opportunity. I’ll take the latter!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Read more: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every week they use these channels to hold a developer office hour, a business office hour (which Mayfield runs) and a community hour, where the startups can gather and talk amongst themselves about whatever they want. “It gives you this really simple interface where you can just tag moments.

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Revolution

JULY 6, 2021

We’re thrilled to back their vision for a new category of pet wellness that extends far beyond traditional pet insurance. What I experienced at the veterinarian’s office that day inspired me to reinvent the pet insurance industry. Up until that point, choosing pet insurance was incredibly frustrating and confusing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2021

Developer tools and business-to-developer companies are among some of our favorite category of startup. To answer that question, on Wednesday, March 31st at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will host Pavi Sandhu. Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And while the grocery delivery market has become increasingly competitive, Hall argued that Good Eggs stands out thanks to the quality and breadth of its products — 70% of its products are locally sourced, and it often delivers them within 48 hours of harvesting. Good Eggs raises $50M and eyes West Coast expansion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

At the time, Pintu chief operating officer Andrew Adjiputro told TechCrunch that it raised an A+ instead of moving onto a Series B because its focus on product development and execution remained the same. The crypto wave is entering mainstream adoption globally and Pintu is building a generational company in this category.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience. The investment will also see VUZ scale its Los Angeles office and scale with creators and content in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

As a result, organizations using Zuper save, on average, at least 20 hours per week, per user and improve customer satisfaction by more than 50%, he added. Also in 2021, the company supported more than 3 million work orders and 15 million scheduled hours of work and facilitated over $20 million of transactions through the platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As with a number of other such ‘modern staffing agencies’, Zenjob directly employs temps — taking care of associated admin (like pay and back-office functions) to further simplify their experience. “Due to the heavy demand we will expand our offers in knowledge work and office jobs.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

By leading with business integrity—and investing in strong governance, an ethical culture, corporate citizenship, and compliance—organizations not only build trust, but also outperform,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, of Ethisphere.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. Like most Microsoft Office-branded products, Outlook includes excellent support for mail templates. Canary works with Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Yahoo!

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