Crossbeam Venture Partners
also referred to as: crossbeam
12 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2024 by Bob Moore · said 41 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Sep 19, 2024 neutral
Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Moore: Crossbeam's partner network requirements make the product intrinsically viral
“The business itself is intrinsically viral. We're like LinkedIn for data. Like you can't use Crossbeam unless all your partners are also on it, or at least your most important ones are. So you are
Intrinsically motivated to invite your partners on and talk the…”
Sep 19, 2024
Moore: Founder dismissiveness toward customer shifts signals a lack of intellectual honesty
“When you feel like your rate at which you are being dismissive of people and things that you feel like don't know as well because they haven't been doing this as long as you goes up, it's time to do that intellectual honesty check and, like, See if maybe there…”
Sep 19, 2024
Moore: Network effect PMF is uniquely tested by customers risking social capital
“There's a really important difference between a network effects driven business like this one and a traditional SaaS business where each individual user or player is contained to their own silo, even if they're in like a multi-tenant system. And that big diffe…”
Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Moore: Traditional acquisition funnels fail for multiplayer products lacking single-player utility
“Content marketing, buying ads, whole outbound, anything that lands a fresh new person that's never seen it before on our website to just sign up directly through our funnel would fail miserably because they'd show up, they would have no connections, and they w…”
Sep 19, 2024
Moore: Building a startup by relying on customer consensus severely caps upside
“Maybe you index a little higher on the extreme outcomes version. Like if your north star is wrong, your north star is wrong and you're really gonna stick yourself. But if you don't do that, you cap your upside really severely because your whole company becomes…”
Sep 19, 2024 neutral
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Moore: Crossbeam Grew from 5 to 30 Companies via Early Partner Invites
“I manually got five on, and then that five led to 15. What was amazing was of those 15, 10 of them invited another three on, and then we got 30, right? And then like this incredible viral loop started before we had even started optimizing on the way to drive v…”