Managing, for Millennials

Key lessons for young managers who lead a team We’ve all seen our share of “How to Manage Millennials” posts, with older, “wiser” executives complaining about how hard it is...

How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing....

Suggested Read on Artificial Intelligence: The Most Human Human

As part of this summer’s reading, I recently finished The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, by Brian Christian. It was a wonderful read. Written...

Introducing Mucker Academy: A Discussion With Jerry Jao

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Mucker Academy, a new initiative meant to help entrepreneurs understand and master the brass tacks of building a great company. To kick it...

Portfolio POV: What’s Trending on Everipedia?

Guest post by Dave Liebowitz Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Here, the “encyclopedia...

Taiwanese TV on Mucker and the Rise of Silicon Beach

Unique Business News, a satellite cable news show based out of Taiwan, stopped by Mucker’s offices recently as part of a segment on Silicon Beach. The piece offers up a...

Blue Collar VC

Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital, we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. This is our third fund, which might...

Are Apps The New Gurus? The Rise Of Self-Help Tech

The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how...

Learning From The OG iPod

If you want to build a multibillion-dollar consumer IoT company, copy the iPod – the original IoT thingy. Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you...

VCs as MCs: LA Edition

(Guest post by Mahbod Moghadam) Several months ago, I wrote an essay for Mucker Blog about the nexus between venture capitalists and rappers. I opined that the strong relation between...

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