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by asanwal 12y ago
Pud - bring back FuckedCompany. Based on all of our data, it's about that time.
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by asanwal 12y ago
I'm commenting about post we did here - https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ We're not affiliated with the book.
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by asanwal 12y ago
Hey Jonathan - Anand from CB Insights here. Thx for the comment and for writing a great post-mortem. One distinction - we didn't republish your post. We linked out to the original post you'd written and quoted a few lines from it
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by asanwal 12y ago
Most of these, given the order, look to be from our original compilation of startup failure post-mortems. We've compiled 101 to date which you can see here. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mor
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The Periodic Table of Tech(cbinsights.com)
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Why startups fail (according to their founders)(fortune.com)
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The Content Marketing Power Law(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Entrepreneur-friendly is big focus for many investors these days. Witness Techstars equity back guarantee as just one example. Felicis, based on its exits, is a top-tier micro VC (if you define it as <$100M funds) so this may force the h
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Strategic Investors – You'll have sold your company. You just won't know it(cbinsights.com)
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The myth of venture capital(recode.net)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Max - appreciate the feedback. What other data points / insights would make it more useful? We've been doing these teardowns for various elite firms (Sequoia, Accel, USV, etc)and the reaction has been very good. In fact, Fred Wil
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Y Combinator Teardown – Alums have raised $3.5B in VC, private investment(cbinsights.com)
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Tracking Movers and Shakers: Tackling Human Resources News Classification(cbinsights.com)
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Who invests early in YC's unicorns?(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
I think the point Tren makes about dilution and how the fancy office and Aeron chairs which are funded by investor capital all can be translated into equity given up is spot on. Think founders often forget that especially in our current cul
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25 things I learned from Fred Wilson(25iq.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
CB Insights - http://www.cbinsights.com - New York, NY (full-time) VP, Engineering - http://cbinsights.com/jobs/vp-engineering Director, Online Marketing - http://cbinsights.com/jobs/di
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Let's be honest about VC-backed underachievers(4044walnut.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Your point about fail louder is probably right. We dug into data after Sam made this statement and the data suggests there is not much of a relationship b/w initial funding and successful outcomes. Data here -- http://www.cb
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Sequoia Capital Teardown(cbinsights.com)
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76 Startup Failure Post-Mortems(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
New York, NY - CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com) We're looking for: - Tech Industry Analysts (think Nate Silver meets tech) - Data Analysts - Front-end devs - Machine learning engineers - Director of Data Products We're bootstrappe
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by asanwal 12y ago
I used to work at Kozmo.com during the dot com gold rush. And I remember our escalating battle with UrbanFetch. Economics went out the window as it was all about customer acquisition and beating and coming up with better deals for customer
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by asanwal 12y ago
I'm skeptical Box can course-correct. They are in a hyper-competitive space with margin pressure and also seem to have pretty poor SaaS fundamentals (high Customer acquisition costs and illusory LTV) Fred felt they could slash their ca
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The Valuation Trap(avc.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
The Business Social Graph It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners. http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...
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by asanwal 12y ago
I used to work in corporate VC and now I'm co-founder of company that tracks their investments. Some thoughts: Corporate VCs are an important part of the ecosystem [1] now as traditional VCs have less money so corporates are helping to
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Moneyball for AngelList Syndicates(cbinsights.com)
2 points by asanwal 12y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 12y ago
Thanks. I've found having a kid focuses you a lot. They can't eat Ramen noodles :)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Cool. Thx. Will check out and update. Someone also emailed me and suggested the founder of Balsamiq. FYI.

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