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20VC: The Memo: How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund (Part I) | The Core Lessons from Raising $400M Over The Last Four Years| The Biggest Mistakes VCs Make When Fundraising | How To Find and Build Relationships with New LPs
- ▶ 15:13 Harry Stebbings I did not have great coverage in terms of deal flow in Australia,
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:06 Tristan Handy Uh, Australia, New Zealand.
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:35 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is with the boldness and decisiveness, it goes against the gradual release iteration testing in Australia and Sweden with new markets.
- ▶ 11:09 Kevin Weil You don't have to test one percent in Australia, right? 2 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:58 Wesley Chan Australia company, romantically involved founders, like, you know, they haven't launched revenue yet, you know, a hundred million dollar plus
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:09 Harry Stebbings We've got Australia, we've got Pakistan, we've got Latin America.
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:25 Zhenya Loginov It takes the entire company to open presence somewhere else, you know, in Australia, or in Europe, or in the US, um, and you need to be ready for it, and as just a go-to-market leader, you cannot succeed in it without the support of your…
20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
- ▶ 3:44 Dom Holland First one was a company in Australia called Toe, which was not a venture-backed startup.
- ▶ 4:06 Harry Stebbings Bluntie, there's controversy around Toe and the Aussie business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Dom Holland I think one of the reasons as well, people find it easy, maybe easier to kind of villainize me through this, is the Aussie male in me, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market?
- ▶ 28:51 George Kurtz But giving an example, up until COVID, you know, we would actually, no matter where the person was hired, they could be in Australia, we would send them to California for one week of training.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 14:02 Jay Simons You know, we were selling online in US dollars, and so part of the value add that a partner could support us through is, I can sell in euros, or I can sell in Japanese yen, and I can invoice you locally because you're gonna buy online from…
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
- ▶ 3:53 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And then we got stuck in Australia.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 40:48 Palmer Luckey You look at the United Kingdom, you look at Germany, you look at Australia.
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 5:01 Jennifer Tejada I moved back from Australia in 2013.
- ▶ 17:31 Jennifer Tejada I really like to be out in nature, and when I lived in Australia, I liked to be out in the ocean.
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings So tell me, my friend, how did you make your way from the wonderful island of Australia to 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- ▶ 4:10 Dom Holland So when I was 15, I started, or 14, I started programming, but that was 17 years ago in regional Australia when it was not cool to be programming. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:04 Harry Stebbings So when you think back to that experience running the startup in Australia, what were the biggest lessons learned?
- ▶ 15:39 Dom Holland As an Australian, we're a country of twenty-five million people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 Dom Holland An amazing place because people here value equity so much higher than in Australia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Dom Holland Yeah, look, so we raised an angel around in Australia before we came over to America.
- ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings In terms of the race itself, an Aussie moving to San Francisco, raising from Jan from the Netherlands,
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings Billion dollars in invoice work in North America, the UK, and Australia.
- ▶ 28:34 Ooshma Garg A lot of the U.S. companies have not expanded internationally, and our industry is actually an international industry in the U.K., Canada, Australia, etc.
- ▶ 32:23 Harry Stebbings Billion dollars in invoice work in North America, the UK, and Australia, and you can learn more at Joyce.com.
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings Designed for ease of use in a mobile world, it enables contractors to professionally handle everyday tasks, like estimating invoicing, collecting payments, and managing projects, and with more than 500,000 contractors who use the Joist…
- ▶ 34:05 Harry Stebbings Billion dollars in invoice work in North America, the UK, and Australia, and you can learn more at Joyce.com.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings More than 500 contractors have used the Joyce platform to manage more than 8.5 billion dollars in invoiced work in North America, the UK, and Australia, and you can learn more today at Joyce.com.
- ▶ 32:24 Harry Stebbings More than 500 contractors have used the Joyce platform to manage more than 8.5 billion dollars in invoiced work in North America, the UK, and Australia, and you can learn more today at Joyce.com.
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 23:17 Harry Stebbings But I do want to touch on ClassPass today, the incredibly exciting times ahead, because we've seen a period of hypergrowth in recent years, expanding pretty aggressively into the UK, Australia, and 34 other markets, according to my…
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 5:23 Harry Stebbings You led the deal in Atlassian, a company at the time in Australia.
- ▶ 14:00 Rich Wong By not only focusing just in the Bay Area, as we talked about earlier, the fact that one can take advantage of the global nature of what's happening in entrepreneurship means that if you actually spend your time in Salt Lake, in Austin, in…
20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- ▶ 25:30 Julia Hartz I think what's more exciting is that we'll continue to extend ourselves globally into new markets, as well as fortify the growth in markets that where we're strong, like continental Europe and Australia and Latin America.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 13:28 Harry Stebbings I had a chat with, um, the Blackbird team about it in Australia.
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
- ▶ 27:30 Spencer Kimball So, you know, in other words, you're not just trying to stick a data center on the East Coast and, and serve, you know, European customers and Australian customers.
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 23:13 Ilya Fushman Uh, just before that, we also invested in a really interesting company, uh, comes from Australia called CultureAmp.
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 14:39 Wesley Chan Uh, you know, one of the biggest investments, in fact, the largest check that Felicis, uh, has ever written was into a company in Australia called Canva.
- ▶ 29:23 Wesley Chan Uh, and we saw how many minutes and how many hours and how many days people were spending on it once they started downloading software that was just clear to us that we had to be involved somehow, despite the fact that they were in Sydney…
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From a 179 countries, and have funding from our friends at Shasta, Felicis, and upcoming guests Blackbird Ventures and Airtree in Australia.
- ▶ 2:52 Melanie Perkins and it became the largest yearbook company in Australia and launched in France, New Zealand, um,
- ▶ 3:30 Harry Stebbings But, but, but that's really interesting in terms of the idea, because you had the grander vision, and then you obviously broke it down into the kind of fragmentation of yearbooks for Australia.
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings The, um, the photo album market in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:46 Harry Stebbings Uh, I, I do, I do want to talk about the expansion though and the growth as we said there of the team, but moving away from the team and talking about growing into non-traditional tech markets, you decided obviously to raise funds… 3 times in the scene
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings So if you're in Oz on 30th, or believe like me it's worth the trip, then check out thesunrise.co and enter the promo code HSTEBBINGS for a fantastic 20% off.
- ▶ 28:46 Harry Stebbings So fly there, swim there, cycle there, I don't care how you get there, but be there in Oz for May the 30th for the Sunrise Conference. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings So if you're based in Australia on May the 30th, or think like me, this is so good it's worth traveling around the world for, then head over to sunrise.co and use the promo code hstebbings for 20% off the ticket price.
- ▶ 27:13 Harry Stebbings However, as the sun sets on the show today, the sun will be rising in Australia, and I'm so proud to be supported by the team at Blackbird Ventures with their Sunrise Conference, and the list of names attending is simply astounding. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 23:24 Chris Morton So we think we should be investing more in, you know, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Australia, Western Europe.
20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC
- ▶ 22:56 Adam Draper I, I, I would normally, I would normally just say, you know, that I played tennis in Australia between high school and college, but I was just asked a question about tennis.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 1:55 James Cameron You know, I, I started off in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 James Cameron We spend time, we spend time in Australia.
20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence
- ▶ 19:25 David Frankel If I had done the, um, if I had really looked into the regulations in the, you know, in the country and the continent that I started, if I'd looked into government control issues, if I'd looked into the fact that, you know, government, um,…
20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
- ▶ 3:52 Willie Biggart This is BD is, is one of the top agencies now in the European structure, and they've also got an office in Sydney, Australia.
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings An Australian Y Combinator style accelerator program now in its fifth year.
- ▶ 2:39 Alan Jones and I started a digital agency which specialized in helping startups, and we were trading off our experience as, as serial entrepreneurs in the startup space, and the community of, of other, um, experienced people working in the startup… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 Harry Stebbings And do the entrepreneurs have to be Australian, or is it completely international? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Alan Jones But in Australia, um, and a lot of other places in the world,
- ▶ 21:10 Alan Jones So, so, um, in the Australian marketplace, there are now a number of funds in about that size, and all of us are looking to about 10 X the size of our, of our investment capacity. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 1:56 Doug Scott Spent a lot of time in Australia and Sydney.
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