In this Mucker Growth Session, Debbie Rosler from Burkland dives into the fundamental financial best practices and infrastructure early -stage startups need to put in place. Finance 101: Why Should You Care? It’s important for early stage startups to focus on finance from the very beginning. At the very earliest stages, startups are focused on […]
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Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. Today, Emotive announces their $50M Series B closed just 7 months after to accelerate growth after a transformative year for eCommerce brands. When meeting with
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This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. 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,
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by William Hsu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mucker VCs say a lot of cryptic stuff when we pass on an investment – partially because it make us appear smart, but mostly because we simply don’t want to be assholes. So, we try as hard as we can to not simply say “no,” when we
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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. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment
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