Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2016
For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. If you’re not on Snapchat — but still want video advice — Snapstorms.com is for you.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. “There’s something going on in LA.”
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2016
I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. So this dude on Twitter says that I’m “trying to hard” because I’m using SnapChat in a new way.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? Hard Problems I encourage entrepreneurs to try and tackle harder problems even if it makes fund raising more difficult and is less likely to succeed.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?”
socalTECH
MARCH 16, 2017
We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Companies like Zefr, Scopely, and others I did not write a check, because you have a different mindset as an individual investors. Two, is I missed a bunch of deals because I did not have a fund.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures?
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