Lerer Hippeau
fund on 6 shows · 13 statements across 4 episodes · said 62 times in 23 episodes since 2013
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2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
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2017 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 827: VC: $140m FinTech, InsurTech Fund on How They Invest
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
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2016 24 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures
- 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
- 20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
- 20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co
- 20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- 20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- $16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215
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2015 22 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
- 20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
- FF 013: 'Make Bets And Believe In What You Are Doing' with James Borow @ Shift & Brand Networks
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2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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13 statements about Lerer Hippeau, every show
Ben Lerer: Seed venture shares nothing with mega-round AI investing
“The business that we are in and the business that the funds are in that are investing at 50 or a hundred or three hundred billion dollars in OpenAI, like I have as much in common with those companies as I do with like a gas station. It just, we're not playing …”
Transamerica Ventures put around $2M into Lerer Hippeau
“I think it was a two million dollar check.”
Ben Lerer: VCs Should Invest Institutional Capital Like Personal Money
“I think in its best scenario, you invest other people's money the same way that you would invest your own money.”
Ben Lerer: VC Firm Branding Drives Top-Tier Deal Flow To Spot Outliers
“Brand is what gives us so much Amazing deal flow, which enables us to really be able to see enough companies to be able to identify the ones that seem to be the outliers and the really special ones”
Ben Lerer: Seed Investors Must Rely On Imagination Because Startups Pivot Frequently
“So many of the businesses that we invest in don't end up looking like what we invest in. We need to be able to have an imagination.”
Ben Lerer: Most Big, Obvious Tech Startup Ideas Have Already Been Claimed
“So many of the big obvious ideas have been taken and there's multiple companies building them. It's rarer that we see some life changing, brilliant invention or idea that we never imagined would be possible.”
Ben Lerer: Simply selling direct-to-consumer without middlemen is no longer disruptive
“I don't think Just being direct to consumer is disruptive anymore, though. Just selling products without a middleman is no longer enough to sort of consider yourself to be, you know, sort of breaking the old model.”
Ben Lerer: Long-Term Independent Startups Must Provide Early Investors Periodic Liquidity
“Generally speaking, we'd love our companies to sort of take the approach that you've seen a war be take, for instance, which is we're going to build something for 20 years. We're going to put our heads down. And then in those situations, you would hope that th…”
Lerer Hippeau's first fund was $8.5 million
“Our first fund was very, very small. It was eight and a half million dollars.”
Hippeau: About 70% of Lerer Hippeau's investments are in New York
“So about 70% of our companies are in in New York itself.”
Lerer Hippeau employs a full-time engineer for its founder tech platform
“We have a product, we have a technology platform, and one of our team members is a full-time engineer.”
Hippeau: Early venture timing loses money, late timing yields me-too companies
“Because if you invest too early it's not gonna, the market's not gonna develop, and you, you'll lose all your money, and if you invest too late, you're gonna be investing in some sort of a me-too company.”
Hippeau: Successful pitches focus on core concepts, not data overload
“So the very best pitches to me are pitches that are relatively simple, you know, go right to the point. Don't try to shower you with too much data. You can always put the data in the appendix because ultimately it's not going to be about the data. Ultimately i…”