Josh Buckley
Founder & Managing Partner, Buckley Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Josh Buckley is the founder and managing partner of Buckley Ventures, a venture capital firm backing early-stage technology companies. He previously founded and served as chairman of gaming studio Mino Games.
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32said about them ↓ Everything Josh Buckley said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Digital advertising CPMs compound at approximately 40% per year
“The second force at play is essentially the market-wide, the CPMs are just compounding. The number we've seen is about 40% a year, and that's just because of a number of factors around the algorithms of new competitors coming into the market.”
Pre-seed CAC and LTV metrics are meaningless without seven-figure ad spend
“In general, I would agree with you that both the data around CAC and LTV is far too early at the pre-seed stage. I think until you've started to kind of push more than seven figures of scale between both the CAC and LTV metrics, you really don't know those num…”
Every digital ad platform update makes user acquisition more expensive
“There's never been a single update in digital advertising that has made buying cheaper. The advertising algorithms on these major platforms like Facebook and Google are getting hyper-efficient, and every update just makes them more expensive.”
Customer acquisition payback periods double for every $5M in ad spend
“The reason why your payback period grows as you spend more is essentially that you're exhausting the most relevant people or customers for your business... And benchmarks we've heard thrown around are roughly doubling every five million in spend.”
Josh Buckley's most successful angel investments struggled to raise seed funding
“I was looking at my own portfolio and actually found that many of my most successful deals were actually not very hot at the seed stage. It was actually a struggle for them to raise their first rounds.”
Mino Games became one of Andreessen Horowitz's best seed investments
“We became one of Andreessen Horowitz's best seed investments.”
Mino Games raised $30M in debt to scale after validating unit economics
“A couple of months ago we did that. So we validated a new game. The unit economics were incredibly favorable to us, and we decided to bring on about thirty million dollars in debt to allow us to scale to the next stage of the business”
Easy funding environments create founders who act like spoiled rich kids
“Many new founders today only know the funding environment like this. It's almost like being a spoiled rich kid born into a rich family. Sometimes it can really help to go through the struggle of struggling to actually you know, make your payroll, et cetera. I …”
Founders should avoid angel investing before achieving product-market fit
“Generally, I would advise against doing so. I think it's great if you have opportunities to do so. And if you have the capital, when you have the deals in front of you, I think it's absolutely worth doing. What I'd advise against is splitting your focus too mu…”
Montreal's cost of living was 4-5x lower than San Francisco in 2016
“The cost of living was four or five times lower than San Francisco, and then we had these amazing tax credits from the government.”
Most startup advice is highly contextual with a sample size of one
“Advice alone is just completely contextual. It's like a sample size of one person's personal experience of what worked or didn't work for them”
Top consumer app mechanics originate in video games 5-10 years prior
“A lot of the consumer mechanics we see today at the top of the apps Store or top of consumer businesses were started in successful games maybe five or 10 years ago.”
The best investor updates are sent monthly on a rigid schedule
“Some of the best investor updates I see are in a monthly cadence. They really kind of keep it on a rigid schedule and they have the key numbers. They have the trends around those numbers and they have the goals. They also have the highlights and lowlights arou…”
Josh Buckley sold his teenage virtual world game for six figures
“I actually agreed one day to sell it to a company in Texas for six figures at the time.”
The other half of the tape: Josh Buckley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 32 times in 17 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 23Fred Turner 4Sahil Bloom 1Peter Lacaillade 1Jude Gomila 1Alex MacCaw 1
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20VC 32
2026 4 mentions in 1 episode
2023 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
2020 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- 20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- 20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- 20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- 20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Buckley Ventures | 1 | 15 | 33% 1/3 | full record on 20VC → |