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Ann Miura-Ko

10 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 4, 2016 by Ann Miura-Ko · said 33 times in 10 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Mike Maples (13), Harry Stebbings (10), Leah Busque (5), George Sivulka (2), Charles Hudson (2), Mitchell Green (1)

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Jul 4, 2016
Insight
Miura-Ko: Brand is an existence proof, not early-stage thesis
“Brand can be proprietary, but I think it's very hard to assess whether or not you have brand at the very, very early stages where we invest, and so brand is more of an existence proof in my mind rather than something theoretical that you can build over time.”
Ann Miura-Ko Jul 4, 2016 ▶ 16:43 20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
Jul 4, 2016
Insight
Miura-Ko: Product-market fit requires market demand pulling product from founders
“Product market fit is not just about whether or not it sticks with any kind of market. That market has to be incredibly sizable, and that market also has to have such a powerful need that it literally pulls the product out of the hands and Of the company.”
Ann Miura-Ko Jul 4, 2016 ▶ 18:09 20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
Aug 12, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Lyft launched 24 markets simultaneously in 2014 as Miura-Ko left board
“It wasn't until I think it was 2014. This is when I rolled off the board the first time they went live with 24 markets, just as I was rolling off the board.”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 21:39 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Early Zimride Board Meetings Took Place Secretly in Stanford Law Dorms
“None of us had a boardroom. So I didn't have a boardroom. John and Logan were working in this one room office. I think Manu Kumar at Canine Ventures also, like, we're all just being scrappy at the moment. So we need a place where we can meet as a board to go o…”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 37:01 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Assertion Supported
Zimride Generated Millions in Revenue Before Pivoting Entirely to Lyft
“You have, like, a few million dollars of revenues coming here, and, like, that's what investors invested into, that was really powerful, because you don't have a ton of data points.”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 18:24 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Disclosure
Miura-Ko: Lyft Had Five Employees When Floodgate Invested
“So when I invested, I think there were five of them in a one room office in Palo Alto, and now we're an organization of a few thousand people.”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 31:22 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Disclosure
Miura-Ko ran month-long processes for her recent seed investments
“The last two investments that I've done, I had a month-long process through which we got to know each other, and it was a commitment to one another”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 14:12 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Disclosure
Ann Miura-Ko Made Only Two Seed Investments by July 2021
“So we're in July. I've only made two investments at the seed stage.”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 13:35 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Aug 12, 2021
Disclosure
Ann Miura-Ko limits her seed investments to three to six per year
“I only make Somewhere between three and six investments every year.”
Ann Miura-Ko Aug 12, 2021 ▶ 13:31 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
Jan 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Maples: Floodgate funded Lyft at a $5.5M post-money valuation
“Ann funded Lyft at five and a half million post money.”
Mike Maples Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 21:23 Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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