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 off, we’ll be sharing videos from our “Leadership Stories” series, where leading experts from the Mucker network sit down and talk with current MuckerLab companies.

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 of everything” site Everipedia uncovers the top five trending pages of its site from the past week, revealing the unique value of it’s real-time knowledge

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 fresh, “across the other pond” perspective of the tech scene in Los Angeles and greater SoCal, which continues to gain wider recognition from around the

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 we get help when we need it. We are living through the “re-imagination — of nearly everything,” and we are seeing this re-imagination very clearly

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 have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. 20 years ago, a majority

(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 the two “professions” is that they are not actually real jobs, they are both just what you tell your friends you’re doing when you don’t

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 startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. Biggie Smalls said it best: “Mo Money, Mo Problems.”

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 my cofounders. Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish.

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 both rapper and VC are not actual professions – they are both kinda what you tell friends and family members you’re doing when you’re unemployed.