6 Avoidable Mistakes That Stifle Great Customer Feedback
If you want to understand some of the pitfalls of product management, take a look at this cartoon. It gets me every time because it’s so spot-on. While it might...
The 1 Secret to Create a Product that Will Dominate the Market
After three stints as a CMO of Silicon Valley companies, I know a thing (or three) about creating and selling legendary products. Raise capital with the right investors. Do your...
International Fundraising 101: What I’ve Learned From Raising Millions For Emerging Market Startups
When you’re raising venture capital for your startup, there are so many critical things you need to do right. I should know: I founded Adventure Capital, a venture capital firm...
Most Companies Suck At Onboarding. Don’t Be One Of Them.
So imagine this: You’ve been recruited by this company for months. You’ve finished their entire interview process, been wooed over dinner or drinks, and are super excited to join the...
Why Investing At The Community Level Is The Best Way To Better The World
What’s the best way to make an impact––to do good and better the world? Any time I ask myself this question, I think of my father, David Glover. He was the...
Dear Founder: You’re Not the Best Person to Run your Company
Founders don’t make great CEOs. It’s something that I call the Founder’s Dilemma, and if recent events are anything to go off of, it’s truer now than ever before. If...
What’s an IPO?
For new entrepreneurs, the terms initial public offering (IPO) and public vs. private can cause a world of confusion and anxiety. In its most basic form, an IPO is when...
Augmented Reality is Changing the Face of Online Retail
Technology is at the heart of the eCommerce industry. As an industry that depends on technology and innovation, eCommerce companies have to be on the lookout for the latest advances,...
The 5 Most Important Lessons We’ve Learned About Scaling Culture
I joined Honey as COO two and a half years ago. At the time, we were a company of 20 people. Yet even then, we were looking ahead to our...
3 Funding Tips To Raise Millions During Your Series B Round
I recently experienced what it’s like to raise $80 million during a Series B round. During this process, I learned the major difference between each financing round comes down to...
What’s a Good Level of Net Dollar Retention?
Net dollar retention tells you what percent of revenue from current customers you retained from the prior year, after accounting for upgrades, downgrades, and churn.
Leadership and Technology: Two Key Factors for Successful Real Estate Startups
A conservative estimate suggests more than 100 real estate startups raised money in 2017, offering new, technologically-sound ways for homebuyers to pair up with their dream house. But what springs...
What Should Your Startup be Spending on Product?
What Should Your Startup be Spending on Product? Read our analysis of product and R&D spend at 123 successful startups that exited via IPO.
What is the Growth Rate a Startup Needs to Exit?
How fast does a company need to grow prior to exiting successfully? We looked at the full year revenue of 127 tech companies prior to going public to find out the...
SaaS Valuations are Unshakable
Even as stocks sell off, SaaS company valuations remain unshakeable. Of the 76 SaaS companies we track, the average public SaaS business is trading at 8.91x revenue while the median...
The San Diego Tech Mafia: ecoATM
Sometimes you never know how the creation of your passion project can shape an entire industry, but that’s just what happened with San Diego-based ecoATM. The founding of ecoATM Founded...
How Long Does It Take a Startup to Exit?
How Long Does It Take a Startup to Exit? We analyzed 127 publicly traded tech companies, using their S1s to collate this exclusive round-up of data.
San Diego Tech Companies Series: The MP3.com Mafia Part 4
There’s no argument that MP3.com built a culture and model that would ultimately impact generations of music lovers. The pioneering company brought online music to the masses by gathering the...
San Diego Tech Companies Series: The MP3.com Mafia Part 3
Tom Walpole got swept into the MP3.com mania the first week of August 1999, just after the digital music pioneer’s highly successful IPO. The environment at MP3.com was electric and...
San Diego Tech Companies Series: The MP3.com Mafia Part 2
One thing MP3.com was really good at was attracting top-tier talent from around the country and across different industries, from music/entertainment gurus in LA to tech players in Silicon Valley....
