Sphero
6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2016 by Paul Berberian · said 31 times in 7 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (29), David Cohen (1), Brad Feld (1)
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 22 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- 20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- 20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
Everything said about Sphero, oldest first
Aug 19, 2016 neutral
Aug 19, 2016
Berberian: Contacted 20 VCs for Sphero without getting a face-to-face meeting
“I remember early on, like, it was our Series B or Series C. I couldn't even get a face-to-face meeting. We, I talked to 20 VCs. I have a spreadsheet. I could get a phone call, but I couldn't get a face-to-face meeting, and I remember Brad saying, says, you hav…”
Aug 19, 2016
Berberian: Sphero completed six VC rounds culminating in a $52M round
“We raised our money a million dollars, and we had to get somewhere to show that we were worthy of getting another tranche of money, and that was our series B, which was five million, and then we had to do something with that to get our next Five million. Then …”
Aug 19, 2016 positive
Berberian: 2014 Disney Accelerator gave Sphero warp drive growth
“And then they ran a second program with Disney Accelerator in 2014. Going through that and the exposure we got into the Walt Disney Company has transformed the business. I mean, it, the accelerator doesn't, you know, put us, it gave us, you know, warp drive. T…”
Aug 19, 2016 positive
Berberian: Sphero expanded direct-to-consumer sales from 10% to 25%
“We started off maybe having 10%, you know, direct to consumer and that's, I'd consider sites like Amazon, More direct to consumer than a, you know, brick and mortar traditional retail. That's now shift to closer to 25% in the last couple of years, and last yea…”
Aug 19, 2016 positive
Berberian: Sphero uses Voxer for asynchronous board communication between meetings
“Another thing is that I've been doing with this company is I've been using a tool called Voxer, and we're doing a bunch of asynchronous communications where we can leave like these walkie-talkie messages for each other. So that we can have an ongoing dialogue …”