Sunrise
0 statements across 0 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2015 by James Wise · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 5 mentions in 1 episode
2016 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- 20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- 20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sunrise, oldest first
Mar 12, 2015 positive
Aug 14, 2015 neutral
Valade: Sunrise sold to Microsoft because the team couldn't monetize it
“I think we didn't know exactly how we could take it from a great product to a great business. I think we've done a good job building a great product. We didn't really know how we could make money. Or turn it into, and turn this into a successful business. And …”
Aug 14, 2015 neutral
Valade: Some Sunrise investors wanted to reject Microsoft's $100M offer
“Yeah, so this, so some of them thought that we should go for more, but I also think investors who really respect entrepreneurs, And, ah, and I think those investor that we worked with respect the entrepreneur decision at the end of the day.”
Aug 14, 2015 positive
Aug 14, 2015 bullish
Valade: Smartwatches are the most critical platform for calendar apps
“Watch is probably the device that, you know, you associate the most with time, right? The watch is like device where you will look and see what time is it. And so we thought about this as like, oh, this is really interesting because it's probably the device th…”
Aug 14, 2015 positive
Valade: Product teams must invent features users don't request
“We can think about building and stuff that, that people Don't even expect in their calendar. So on that type of things, we don't really expect them to come back to us and say, you know, I wish I could do X, Y, and Z, because no one even thinks that's even poss…”
Aug 14, 2015
Sunrise founders left Foursquare and U.S. due to visa restrictions
“We quit Foursquare end of 2012, and we had to go back to Europe because we didn't have any visa at that time to stay in the U.S. Because we were just, we quit our job, so we had to go back in Europe in the winter of 2012, and then we launched Sunrise February …”
Aug 14, 2015
Valade raised Sunrise's seed round with a live product, no deck
“So the funny, so I didn't do any business plan for that. I just say, we have a product out there. Try the product. It speaks for itself. So I was really almost kind of like arrogant about the fact that I didn't want to do slides. I was like, you know, we just …”
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Raanan: 11 of 17 Cyberstarts Sunrise graduates reached unicorn status or exit
“If you look at the current Cyberstarts portfolio, we are at you know, overall, I believe at 21 companies. Four are still running Sunrise, so who knows, but out of the 17 who went through Sunrise and raised Series A, seven are unicorns one is a decacorn, and th…”