Josh Udashkin
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2016 by Josh Udashkin · said 18 times in 11 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2017 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Overcoming The Engineer Boys Club, Disrupting The "Pink Aisle" & Why VCs Are Missing A Trick Not Investing In The CPG Space with Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox
- 20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- 20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- 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
- 20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- 20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- 20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
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2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
- 20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
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Everything said about Josh Udashkin, oldest first
Jul 1, 2016
Raden sold out initial inventory, driving shipping delay to 15 days
“We sold out of all the product that we had made, even with venture funding and working capital funding and everything else, and so now we're You know, 15 day shipping times when really we're meant to be a same day or second day business.”
Jul 1, 2016
Udashkin: Hardware founders fail by prioritizing product development over brand values
“Whenever I talk to people starting these things who are so focused only on the product And getting it out the door, and you know, whatever it's going to be named, that they forget that in order to build something, you need to communicate your values, and it ne…”
Jul 1, 2016 negative
Udashkin: Traditional luggage brands assemble generic parts into 'cyborg shells'
“The luggage business is kind of a Mr. Potato Head business, I call it, The traditional brands, the companies take catalog parts from a number of different factories, and then they put them together on some randomly designed cyborg shell. And then they spit it …”
Jul 1, 2016 negative
Udashkin: Crowdfunding platforms generate sales but fail to build lasting brands
“It's starting to become, first of all, very, very difficult to build a brand off of those platforms. I think they're good at generating a certain level of sales, but then you never actually build, you know, a brand or any type of marketing funnel or really fig…”
Jul 1, 2016
Udashkin: A hardware startup is effectively multiple companies in one
“It's multiple companies in one. So you have a luggage firm, you have an electronics firm, you have mobile development, firmware development, then you have all the things around building a brand. Then you're a retailer, you're a distributor, you're a marketer, …”
Jul 1, 2016
Jul 1, 2016 positive
Raden hired former Beats by Dre designer Kenny Sweet for luggage design
“I met Kenny Sweet who had worked on the Beats project for a number of years, and we really vibed, and I had this merchandising concept around a single almost unlined product, you know, that was very stark and looked like many of the products that we've been bu…”
Jul 1, 2016 negative
Jul 1, 2016 bullish
Josh Udashkin: Building a consumer brand requires a physical retail footprint
“I think it's very hard to build brand, which is, you know, first and foremost, what we're up to here without some type of You know, physical footprint or place for consumers to interact with you being, you know, even your retail associate and how they're train…”