Lerer Hippeau

also referred to as: lerer hippeau ventures

11 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 21, 2015 by Eric Hippeau · said 51 times in 17 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Dec 21, 2015 neutral
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Hippeau: Early venture timing loses money, late timing yields me-too companies
“Because if you invest too early it's not gonna, the market's not gonna develop, and you, you'll lose all your money, and if you invest too late, you're gonna be investing in some sort of a me-too company.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 18:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Dec 21, 2015 neutral
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Hippeau: Successful pitches focus on core concepts, not data overload
“So the very best pitches to me are pitches that are relatively simple, you know, go right to the point. Don't try to shower you with too much data. You can always put the data in the appendix because ultimately it's not going to be about the data. Ultimately i…”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 19:01 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Dec 21, 2015 neutral
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Hippeau: About 70% of Lerer Hippeau's investments are in New York
“So about 70% of our companies are in in New York itself.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 10:46 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Dec 21, 2015
Disclosure
Lerer Hippeau's first fund was $8.5 million
“Our first fund was very, very small. It was eight and a half million dollars.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 9:03 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Dec 21, 2015 positive
Disclosure
Lerer Hippeau employs a full-time engineer for its founder tech platform
“We have a product, we have a technology platform, and one of our team members is a full-time engineer.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 12:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Sep 5, 2016
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Ben Lerer: VCs Should Invest Institutional Capital Like Personal Money
“I think in its best scenario, you invest other people's money the same way that you would invest your own money.”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 7:20 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
Sep 5, 2016 neutral
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Ben Lerer: Simply selling direct-to-consumer without middlemen is no longer disruptive
“I don't think Just being direct to consumer is disruptive anymore, though. Just selling products without a middleman is no longer enough to sort of consider yourself to be, you know, sort of breaking the old model.”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 16:33 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
Sep 5, 2016 neutral
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Ben Lerer: Most Big, Obvious Tech Startup Ideas Have Already Been Claimed
“So many of the big obvious ideas have been taken and there's multiple companies building them. It's rarer that we see some life changing, brilliant invention or idea that we never imagined would be possible.”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 13:52 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
Sep 5, 2016 positive
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Ben Lerer: Long-Term Independent Startups Must Provide Early Investors Periodic Liquidity
“Generally speaking, we'd love our companies to sort of take the approach that you've seen a war be take, for instance, which is we're going to build something for 20 years. We're going to put our heads down. And then in those situations, you would hope that th…”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 20:56 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
Sep 5, 2016
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Ben Lerer: Seed Investors Must Rely On Imagination Because Startups Pivot Frequently
“So many of the businesses that we invest in don't end up looking like what we invest in. We need to be able to have an imagination.”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 9:16 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
Sep 5, 2016
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Ben Lerer: VC Firm Branding Drives Top-Tier Deal Flow To Spot Outliers
“Brand is what gives us so much Amazing deal flow, which enables us to really be able to see enough companies to be able to identify the ones that seem to be the outliers and the really special ones”
Ben Lerer Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 8:46 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
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