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Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09 Sheel Mohnot And at that .500 startups who had invested in the first company asked me, uh, to join them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:08 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, what did you learn from 500? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:23 Sheel Mohnot I, you know, I, I never looked at it very closely, but I thought like at 500, we'd invested in a company called simple and simple had exited.
Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:47 Mac the VC Um, and that was actually inspired from the way 500 startups at their fund one, where there's 50% upfront and 25% each year over the next two years.
- ▶ 24:43 Mac the VC But I also think, um, in August, 2019, I went through, uh, 500 startups, uh, VC Unlock program.
20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Prior to Hustle Fund, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups, where she ran the 500 Startup Seed program in Mountain View, and where her and her partner saw over 20,000 startup decks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Elizabeth Yin And then after that, I started mentoring companies at 500 startups. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:43 Elizabeth Yin Well, so for personal experience, having fundraised myself for a startup, as well as having interactions with so many portfolio companies at 500 startups, just the interactions that you have with many VCs is just crazy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:07 Elizabeth Yin This is something that we noticed, Eric, my business partner, and I noticed in many of the portfolio companies we worked with at 500 startups and in our own angel portfolios, the best ones are the ones that execute on that one metric that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Elizabeth Yin But we want to flip it around because I've seen over 20,000 deals, and I've observed hundreds of companies going through the 500 startups accelerator, and have also observed my own angel investments.
- ▶ 13:15 Elizabeth Yin This is something that we did manually while at 500 startups when we worked with companies, but the general concept works really well from past experience, and, and so what we're trying to do is bring some automation to this.
- ▶ 18:41 Elizabeth Yin You know, I don't have a great answer for that, but the vast majority of companies that are doing really well that I've observed just from all these companies I've seen go through 500 and our own angel portfolios, they do tend to exhibit…
- ▶ 23:22 Elizabeth Yin Yeah, unfortunately I can't talk about Hustle Fund investments yet, but one of my angel portfolio companies, who also went through the 500 startups accelerator, they're called the Pill Club. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, I think it would be debate would be a nice way to put it between the likes of Michael Kim at Sandana, Roger Ehrenberg at IA, and then obviously Dave McClure and, um, Matt Lerner at 500.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off a monthly or annual subscription using the promo code twentyminutevc at…
- ▶ 24:03 Harry Stebbings Founders Suite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off
20VC: Can Founders Really Trust Their VC & How To Navigate The Acquisition Process Successfully with Josh Felser, Co-Founder @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups,
- ▶ 25:48 Harry Stebbings Founders Suite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 1:19 Harry Stebbings 500 startups and every other major accelerator.
- ▶ 29:17 Harry Stebbings 500 startups, and every other major accelerator.
20VC: Why Young VCs Must Have Cheque Writing Ability & Why Corporate VC Is The Best Training Ground For New VCs with Nagraj Kashyap @ Microsoft Ventures
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups,
- ▶ 25:20 Harry Stebbings Founders Suite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings Founders Suite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off
- ▶ 26:33 Harry Stebbings Founders Suite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast can get a whopping 40% off
20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings Founder Suites used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off a monthly or annual subscription using the promo code twentyminuteVC, that's…
- ▶ 26:01 Harry Stebbings Foundersuites used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off a monthly or annual subscription using the promo code twentyminuteVC, that's…
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite's used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off
- ▶ 25:26 Harry Stebbings Foundersuites used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off a monthly or annual subscription using the promo code twentyminutevc, that's…
20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?
- ▶ 1:13 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite's used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite's used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, and every other major accelerator, and listeners of this podcast get a whopping 40% off
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups,
- ▶ 24:56 Harry Stebbings Foundersuite is used by startups in Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups,
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining AngelList, Parker was a partner at 500 startups in San Francisco, and his illustrious path prior to investing includes Pivotal Labs, co-founding PlaceSite, preserving the interwebs at the Internet Archive, and working…
- ▶ 3:40 Parker Thompson Building this firm, he was about a year in at the time to his fund, a hundred startups, and he offered me a job, which ended up being a really pretty interesting transition for me. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Parker Thompson That said, when I'm looking at deals personally, or sitting inside 500, it's an old VC cliche that the team is what matters, but it's a cliche for a reason, and it's correct, right?
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 14:35 Nav Athwal Also, we, we went through an incubator, 500 startups. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Dave really needs no introduction, but for those of you that have been living under a rock, Dave is the founding partner of 500 startups who've made over 1500 investments in the likes of Twilio, SendGrid, Intercom,
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, and I'm thrilled to welcome Dave McClure, founding partner at 500 Startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings So one from Matt Lerner, uh, distro dojo, 500, London office. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:21 Harry Stebbings You know, it's not a 300 K fund now with 500.
- ▶ 14:27 Harry Stebbings Obviously, 500 startups, big accelerator program. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Harry Stebbings And then you focus a lot on diversity at 500.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 15:59 Harry Stebbings And I'm really pleased you said that about portfolio construction, because I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave McClure last night, uh, from 500 startups, uh, for a fireside chat, and he said the reason that VC is inherently flawed as…
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings It's a joint program run by Stanford Professional Development Center and 500 startups for anyone looking to make their move into the world of VC or improve their standing in the VC community. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 1:56 Harry Stebbings It's a joint program held by 500 startups in the Stanford Professional Development Center where you learn the tips, tactics, and strategies from some of the best investors in the Valley, including the likes of Mark Souster and my good… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 1:58 Harry Stebbings It's a joint program held by 500 startups in the Stanford Professional Development Center, where you learn the tips, tactics, and strategies from some of the best investors in the valley, including the likes of Mark Souster and my good… 2 times in the scene
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings It's an incredible two-week course where you get to learn the tips, tactics, and strategies of some of the Valley's best investors, including the likes of my good friend Jason Lemkin, Mark Souster, Dave McClure, and many more incredible…
- ▶ 29:39 Harry Stebbings And this incredible course is run jointly by Stanford Professional Development Center and 500 startups. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings The program is a two-week crash course run by Stanford Professional Development Center and 500 startups, and it teaches you about the mechanics of investing from Stanford faculty and 500 startups partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:10 Harry Stebbings It's a two-week crash course held at Stanford and run by 500 startups in Stanford Professional Development Center.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 24:52 Harry Stebbings It's an unbelievable two-week crash course jointly run by Stanford Center for Professional Development and 500 Startups, and it will teach you the tips, tactics, and strategies of some of the best investors in the industry, including the…
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 17:25 Charles Hudson Like, I think, like, 500 startups or SV Angel, there's a lot of different strategies that can work.
20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
- ▶ 0:23 Harry Stebbings Whilst being head of AngelList Europe, he's also a venture partner for our friends at 500 Startups, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Harry Stebbings And talking of the market, you're also a venture partner at one of our favorite funds, 500 startups. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Philipp Moehring Um, but obviously, you know, working at AngelList, working with 500, uh, is also something that I enjoy every day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Harry Stebbings Again, I'd like to say a huge thank you to Philip for giving up his time today to be on the show with both positions at 500 and Angel List.
20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings You must check out 500 startups company Law Trades, which provides a marketplace of awesome business attorneys with strong domain experience with startups, and they've helped startups from top accelerators like YC, Techstars, and of… 2 times in the scene
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You're listening to the 20 Minute VC, and welcome back to this very special week featuring the incredible team and operations at 500 Startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings But first, before we dive into the interview, I would love to chat about a 500 company
- ▶ 1:38 Harry Stebbings But back to the show now, and it gives me great pleasure to welcome the man himself, Marvin Liao, partner at 500 Startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings And, and your 500 Startups page describes you as the recovering Yahoo exec. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned there about your mentoring at 500 startups at a number of different accelerators around the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:46 Marvin Liao Um, you know, even 500 stars. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:42 Harry Stebbings And ironically now, 500 startups has invested in over a thousand startups.
- ▶ 15:17 Harry Stebbings And you said that you were attracted to the 500 Startups International Outlook, and they were one of the only, kind of, early-stage VCs that does do global investments, and 500 have recently raised a new eighty-five million dollar fund, a… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Harry Stebbings 500 startups.
- ▶ 23:35 Harry Stebbings And then your, the biggest challenge for 500 in the coming years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:02 Harry Stebbings And of course, 500 startups.
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings And I'd love to hear a little bit now about your backstory and how you made the move from PayPal to VC with 500. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Harry Stebbings And I'd love to then talk about the 500 operations in the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Matt Lerner And at 500 startups, you know, we invest in B to B, B to C, SaaS, marketplace, e-commerce.
- ▶ 14:15 Matt Lerner So we, we work in 500 startups with about 150 companies a year in terms of growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Matt Lerner I surveyed the whole 500 startups growth hacking team. 2 times in the scene
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 1:40 Harry Stebbings These are startups from top accelerators like YC, Techstars, 500 Startups, and startups can use it for anything ranging from incorporation,
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- ▶ 50:15 Jason Calacanis Maybe not tech stars, because I think that gives the class a small, but definitely 50 times more value than a demo, than a, than a 500 startup or Y Combinator company in terms of the program.
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 20:23 Keith Teare Um, the, the, where a company can raise, you know, a 120,000 dollars from Y Combinator or 500 startups or other incubators, um, spend three months, build something, do a demo day, and hopefully get another million or two from VCs out of… 2 times in the scene