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Kadavy: $50M in revenue is often too small for early-stage VC
“Building businesses that can do fifty million dollars in revenue. That is incredible, right? That is incredible. And it, and But unfortunately, it's not always a great fit for an early stage venture fund that is that, you know, the bar for success in a consume…”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 10:16 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: Great consumer tech either mirrors offline behavior or gives superpowers
“Many of the greatest companies we know could fall into one or perhaps two buckets of In what they've enabled for consumers. One is that they have enabled them to behave more as we behave as humans offline... The second is piece of technology that Give someone …”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 20:02 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: It takes ten years to know if you are a good VC
“It takes one person 10 years to know if they're good at this job or not, which is crazy when you think about it. I couldn't give you another example of a job that takes 10 years to give you that feedback.”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 6:28 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: Marketplace success requires prioritizing empathy with supply side first
“To find success in a marketplace is, is to truly empathize specifically with the supply side first.”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 15:47 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: Nearly all marketplaces derive defensibility through scale
“Marketplaces, almost all of them are defensible by scale.”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 16:18 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: Bot startups should target high-value vertical niches to compete
“To start with a vertical, ideally a vertical that is you know, very high value to a consumer and build a depth of knowledge or experience there because people will flock to the things that, that work best in those bots.”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 24:48 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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Kadavy: VCs own nothing and lead nothing; they are just enablers
“It is a job where you are inherently in the middle of a lot of things. You don't own anything and you are not the leader of anything. You are the enabler of people and ideas”
Annie Kadavy Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 27:02 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
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