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This Week in Venture Capital

How Has Product Hunt Become Such a Critical Startup Website?

How Has Product Hunt Become Such a Critical Startup Website?

By Mark Suster on June 12, 2015

Product Hunt. It seems out of nowhere it has become the go to website for startup companies to launch their new products or businesses. It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006. It was the place that every startup knew they HAD TO be in order to attract initial users and also […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Insider, Product Hunt, Reddit, soundcloud, techcrunch, This Week in Venture Capital

Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

By Mark Suster on October 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I wasn’t a believer. I had always liked and respected CEO Joe Fernandez but could never get my head around the fact that the Klout was putting up charts showing who influenced me and it didn’t map to the reality I knew in my head. I had been […]

Posted in General | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

Want to Know How to Better Partner With, Raise Money From or Be Acquired by a Big Media Company?

Want to Know How to Better Partner With, Raise Money From or Be Acquired by a Big Media Company?

By Mark Suster on August 23, 2012

This is one of the best episodes of This Week in VC for a long time. I had the chance to speak with Andrew Siegel who runs corp dev & strategy for Condé Nast (aka Advance Publications). In case you don’t know, they are one of the biggest media companies in the world. They are […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged conde nast, ipad, startups, This Week in Venture Capital, vc funding, venture capital, youtube

How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

By Mark Suster on February 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media, out of necessity. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Launchpad LA, Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

By Mark Suster on November 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. And there are very few people who so consistently exceed my expectations when I hear them speak. I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged This Week in Venture Capital

Ever Wonder What It’s Like Inside a VC Pitch Meeting? You Can Be a Fly on the Wall Here

Ever Wonder What It’s Like Inside a VC Pitch Meeting? You Can Be a Fly on the Wall Here

By Mark Suster on November 9, 2011

I’ve often wanted to let people see what a VC pitch is like to help new entrepreneurs have a better sense of what it’s like to present. Obviously having a camera on will add a small bit of an artificial result because I don’t want to ask as much confidential information and with the camera […]

Posted in General | Tagged This Week in Venture Capital

Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

By Mark Suster on July 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. I’ve also found him to not be […]

Posted in General | Tagged This Week in Venture Capital

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

By Mark Suster on May 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned my on to “Spolsky on Software” a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. But I […]

Posted in General | Tagged Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital | 1 Response

Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

By Mark Suster on April 23, 2011

I’ve just finished a week away from the office for Spring Break, which was much needed. I’m now back & ready for action. I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. Back to regular writing this week […]

Posted in General | Tagged This Week in Venture Capital

Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

By Mark Suster on April 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of First Round Capital. They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. One example is that they introduced a […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Ebay, Exchange fund, first round capital, Howard Morgan, Josh Kopelman, Renaissance Technologies, Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

By Mark Suster on April 19, 2011

  I recently sat down with Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.” Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet. You can watch him on YouTube, download in iTunes (for […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Launchpad LA, LowerMyBills, Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

By Mark Suster on April 16, 2011

  It’s easy to think that the wife of a well-known & successful VC (Fred Wilson) would have had an easy and storied life of wealth and privilege. I had previously had the opportunity to spend time with Joanne Wilson, Fred’s wife, and knew otherwise. That’s why I was so interested in having “The Gotham […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital | 1 Response

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

By Mark Suster on April 13, 2011

Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. I had the chance to sit down with him for an hour and ask him loads of questions that I thought you’d enjoy hearing. If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 – and listen at the gym or on […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Startup Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

By Mark Suster on March 11, 2011

  Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross, one of the Internet’s true pioneers. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. All of that are in this week’s episode of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, This Week in Venture Capital

Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

By Mark Suster on March 6, 2011

  I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Through this process he raised $2 million. When I described to people […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged AngelList, dave mcclure, EcoMom, silicon valley, This Week in Venture Capital

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