Scott Kupor
11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 10, 2019 by Scott Kupor · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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- 20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- 20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
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Jun 10, 2019 negative
Kupor: Distressed startups cannot sell themselves without pre-existing inbound interest
“At the end of the day, companies are bought, not sold, meaning that if you don't have that inherent interest already from other companies, it's very hard when you're facing a bridge situation to assume you're going to go out and market yourself to somebody els…”
Jun 10, 2019 positive
Kupor: Founders Are Often Relieved When VCs Suggest Winding Down
“When I started this business, when we started, we thought these would be incredibly difficult conversations, and there's no doubt sometimes they are, but oftentimes we find actually exactly the opposite, which is sometimes the founders are relieved after those…”
Jun 10, 2019
Jun 10, 2019
Kupor: Target fundraising ranges are fine if objectives scale with capital
“I think it's okay with ranges as long as you can articulate, if I have eight, this is what I'm going to do with that money, but if we're lucky enough to be able to raise 12, this is the incremental, you know, set of financials or company objectives we're going…”
Jun 10, 2019
Kupor: Founders raising Series A should work backward from Series B pitch
“The best advice we always give is when you're raising your A round of financing, what's the pitch that you're going to give at the B round and work backwards and say, okay, based on that, if I'm raising A today and I'm targeting 18 to 24 months to raise my B, …”
Jun 10, 2019 negative
Jun 10, 2019
Kupor: Founders focus too much on pitching products that will inevitably change
“And I think what happens a lot of times in pitches is people immediately want to kind of talk about product, which is wonderful. And of course we love product, but you know, the product we know is going to change. That's just the nature of this business.”
Jun 10, 2019 negative
Kupor: Tech must look beyond the Bay Area and NYC-Boston bubbles
“The biggest thing we've got to change is we have to kind of get out of our own bubble and realize that the entire U.S. Doesn't live in the fifty-mile radius of the Bay Area or in the New York-Boston area. And just understand that for all the great things that …”
Jun 10, 2019 positive
Kupor: Building external networks is more valuable than extra working hours
“Working fewer hours and spending more time on external relationship development, I think it's one of the most undervalued skills that we all kind of fall into, that trap, because that's the way the educational system works, particularly in the U.S., But making…”
Jun 10, 2019 bearish
Jun 10, 2019 positive
Kupor: Startups must act on partial information and make new mistakes
“I love the phrase, make new mistakes, because to me, it implies exactly what you need to do in a startup, which is you can't be great, cannot be the enemy of good. Sometimes you have to just move forward with the information you have and be willing to make mis…”