Mark Fishman
@markfishman
🤓 User research for consumer tech startups
🧠Innovation in social systems
Mark Fishman
Consumer Social and
Onchain Media and
In short, when a private company raises less capital at lower valuations, employees have the chance for more upside if the company succeeds.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Employee-VC Alignment
More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise.
A few successes:
• Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures
• Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs
• Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by... See more
Venture studios / incubators
perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)
Proactive investors / partners
Tokens may represent a net positive for consumers by reducing switching costs between platforms (incentives for early adopters). Low switching costs increases the emphasis on building good products that retain users.
Sari Azout • Betting on Consumer Tech’s Tokenized Future ft. Gaby Goldberg
web3 websites for creators to engage with fans
In the MVP strategy, you have no strategy: You throw things at a wall until it sticks. In the MVT world, you take your time to discover a strategy but once you have one, you move forward with conviction.