Jenna Brown

8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2017 by Jenna Brown · across every show →

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Jul 21, 2017 positive
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Jenna Brown: US Venture Investors Decide Faster Than European VCs
“For us, raising in the USA was a much better experience because investors tend to make decisions faster.”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 5:22 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017
Insight
Jenna Brown: Startup product discovery phases should last one to two months max
“Ideally, you'd probably want to push out in like one, two months, I'd say.”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 15:55 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017
Insight
Jenna Brown: Container shipping operates like a bus with fixed routes
“I kind of see that booking a container, and this is where kind of flex Sportsets and Freight Hub and Haven and Zanetta and lots of startups. It's almost like booking a seat on a bus. So there's a set route, a set schedule, and you book that container on that r…”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 3:23 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017
Insight
Jenna Brown: Enterprise B2B founders should avoid investors using e-commerce metrics
“I'd say definitely choose investors that are familiar with early stage B to B enterprise. And you can usually tell that by the kind of questions they ask. And sometimes we'd go into meetings and we'd get questions which felt very suitable for an e-commerce bus…”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 16:34 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017 negative
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Jenna Brown: 70-80% of VCs asked how she'd win as a female founder
“When 70 to eight percent of those investors ask me, how will you win this male-dominated industry as a woman, it's very, very hard not to think there might be something wrong with you.”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 7:46 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017
Insight
Jenna Brown: Early product-market fit requires repeatable value and sales alignment
“The first illustration I think for us is when we have the first set of customers who love the product, who derive value from it, and the value they tell you is very similar from customer to customer, they use it consistently to do the task it's intended for, a…”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 12:54 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017 neutral
What-if
Jenna Brown: Founders should call out investor gender bias immediately
“Looking back, if I were to do that again, I'd try and call that out as quickly as possible.”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 9:08 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
Jul 21, 2017
Insight
Jenna Brown: Enterprise SaaS startups should not charge customers from day one
“There's only a set amount of time you should do this for, but I knew we had a set list of items we wanted to understand, and we wanted to remove all friction in understanding those things. And once we had got those kind of discovery questions answered, then we…”
Jenna Brown Jul 21, 2017 ▶ 15:10 20VC: The 2 Types of Sexism & How They Play Out In Tech, Why You Should Not Always Get Customers To Pay For Your Product Immediately & Why You Must Ask Operator VCs Different Questions To Non-Operator VCs with Jenna Brown, Founder & CEO, Shipamax
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