Kickstarter
6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2015 by Peter Rojas · said 72 times in 32 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (36), Peter Rojas (6), Ben Nader (6), Mike Salguero (4), Ed Cooke (3), Luke Lang (2), Joey Zwillinger (2), Jesse Genet (2)
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2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- 20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2018 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- 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
- 20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 18 mentions in 12 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: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- 20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- 20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
- 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- 20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- 20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 26 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- FF 011: 'The Savviest Investors Don't Ask What If' with Ben Nader, CEO & Founder @ Butterfleye
- 20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures
- 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- 20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube
- 20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- 20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- 20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
Everything said about Kickstarter, oldest first
Oct 14, 2015 negative
Rojas: Easy Kickstarter crowdfunding hurts hardware startups' operational discipline
“One of the things about when you're building, say, raising money for hardware on Kickstarter, for example, is that You can raise money so easily for if you lay out a compelling product vision that it actually takes away some of the constraints that would force…”
Apr 27, 2016 neutral
John Frankel Argues Crowdfunding Is Not a Winner-Take-All Market
“It's not necessarily a winner-take-all space. You know, I've heard people describe Kickstarter as becoming the Friendstoper space, but I'm not really seduced by that argument. I think that there's room for more than one platform, and they, their models really …”
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…”
Dec 1, 2017
May 4, 2018
Lumi co-founders raised $13,000 on Kickstarter in 2009
“The first company that we started was a product that we launched on Kickstarter while we were still in school studying industrial design. So back in 2009, when Kickstarter was just months old instead of years old, we posted a project that got funded for a whop…”