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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

By Mark Suster on November 11, 2014

When I first met Meredith Perry she was 24. That was three months ago this week. Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, startup lessons, startups, uBeam, vc funding, venture capital

The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

By Mark Suster on November 7, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam, led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry, announced a $10 million round of financing.  The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Andreessen Horowitz, Entrepreneurship, Mark Cuban, startup lessons, startups, uBeam, Upfront Ventures, vc funding, venture capital

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