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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...
More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup
by Erik Rannala Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a...
Interview with Everipedia’s Tedde Forselius
Interview with my Everipedia Co-founder Theodor Forselius (AKA “Tedde”) by Mahbod Moghadam One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of...
Brother From Another Mother: VCs and Rappers
Guest post by Mahbod Moghadam Rappers want to be venture capitalists, venture capitalists want to be rappers: it is a tale as old as time. It totally makes sense, cause...
Venture Capital Is Dead. Long Live Venture Capital.
(Guest post by my partner, Erik Rannala) There have been rumblings recently that the traditional VC model could be in danger of extinction, threatened by more contemporary investment sources such...
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the 5 Craziest Investor Meetings
As a startup founder, a huge amount is staked on your ability to fundraise. Investment means you have something to live on while you turn your idea into a reality....