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Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 3:30 Ann Miura-Ko The way we met John and Logan was that Leah Buskey, who's the founder of TaskRabbit, had been in the Facebook incubator or accelerator at the same time as John and Logan.
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 4:42 Alfred Lin And actually, between 20 11 and 20 13, we evaluated opportunities to invest in Grubhub, in Caviar, in Postmates, in TaskRabbit, because I was fascinated with this space.
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 16:29 David Rogier I hired some people on TaskRabbit to help write the class text instructions, and I bought ad traffic to see if people would actually try to buy the class.
20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- ▶ 14:12 Harry Stebbings We had Leah at TaskRabbit on, and she said that one side of the equation will always be less content.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 17:49 Harry Stebbings But, but speaking of that, it makes me think about MPS, and we had Leah from TaskRabbit and Fuel Capital on the show the other day, and she suggested that with marketplaces, which in some case, you know, the league is, to a certain extent,…
20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- ▶ 9:44 Paul English And during my Uber ride, I'm going back and forth on my phone, and someone reached out to me, believe it or not, on TaskRabbit, and there's a woman who did a task to me like a year ago, and I vaguely remember, I never met her in person,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 20:04 Harry Stebbings And then the final question is from Aliyah Busky at TaskRabbit, or formerly of TaskRabbit, who said that with marketplaces, your NPS is always going to be bad on one side of the equation. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings As for Leah, prior to VC, she was a pioneer of the sharing economy with her founding of TaskRabbit, one of the leading online labor marketplaces in the US, where she raised over thirty-seven million dollars in VC funding in the process…
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings And first, a question from the wonderful Mike Maples, who asks, what was the spark for founding TaskRabbit? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Harry Stebbings But I do want to start today on the theme of transferable learnings and discussing kind of the many successful years in operations there with TaskRabbit, and I want to ask you a two-fold question to start with. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Leah Busque I think later stages, you know, you start to dive into the numbers and the unit economics and, you know, for TaskRabbit, we always operated in a way that we were contribution positive and very, very fiscally responsible and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Leah Busque I'm just so excited and so thrilled about this next chapter of my career, and I feel like, you know, TaskRabbit was my first baby. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:27 Leah Busque And business model of marketplaces, and this is something maybe that I'm a little spoiled with with TaskRabbit because we were always so cognizant of unit economics and business model and operating with positive margins that I really… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:23 Leah Busque I read it over 10 years ago, right before I founded TaskRabbit, and it's called Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Together with their third partner, David, they've built NextView into one of the East Coast's leading early stage funds, with investments in the likes of Deer & Co, Sunrise, our favorite calendar app we mourn and miss so much, TaskRabbit,…
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 4:32 Ben Blumenfeld Now, what was interesting there was actually some of the task rabbit was in that.
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Before founding binary, Justin was a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he made investments in the likes of Grubhub, TaskRabbit, Socialcam, and many more incredible consumer companies.
- ▶ 4:14 Justin Caldbeck So worked on, uh, and led investments in, you know, Grubhub, Seamless, Stitch Fix, TaskRabbit, Lux, Style C, worked on, uh, the seed investment in Snapchat, Whisper, and then decided in, uh,
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 6:56 Michael Kim Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit to start what effectively become, ah, the, the shared economy.
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings And at Floodgate, Anne's investments include Lyft, TaskRabbit, Refinery 29, just to name a few.
- ▶ 7:55 Ann Miura-Ko In the early stage, so between 2008 and 2010, I invested in TaskRabbit, ModCloth, and then Zimride, which turned into Lyft. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings They've made investments in the likes of AngelList, CodeAcademy, OldSchool, Reddit, and TaskRabbit, just to name a few.