Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 18, 2010

As many of you know, I spent the better half of 2009 as an Entrepreneur -in- Residence at Trinity Ventures. Given that I've spent most of my entrepreneurial career in scrappy startup environments, I developed a valuable new perspective on evaluating opportunities. Venture Funding is not for Every Startup. Seek Leverage.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2009

This very simple statement serves as a guiding principle for a startup, helping to focus it on this core goal early on: to ensure that its product provides compelling value to its target audience. It also de-emphasizes many secondary issues that, while important, are not likely to be an early cause of failure for a startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. I’ve been at GV now for about a year.

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Nulab

JULY 27, 2022

In 2009, two friends founded a company called Airbnb with the aim of providing an alternative to traditional hotel accommodations. On the flip-side, if your product or service is becoming a huge drain without much uptake, or your MVP isn’t getting positive feedback, then it might be time to throw in the towel and try something new.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company exploded in 2009 around the premise of rewarding users points for each new place they visited. As many companies copied their success since the foursquare boom in 2009, silly titles or badges may have lost some of their initial appeal…but onboarding gamification is still all the rage. Wonder why?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

You can quickly go from strategy to execution and you know exactly what should be done next. So, you’re investing a little, you get positive feedback, you invest a little bit more, you get more feedback, you invest a little bit more. If you are like most leaders, you got to where you are because you are good at making decisions.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 6, 2020

Previously, in 2009, he co-founded Evidity, a healthcare data analytics firm serving the physician market. Don’t quit your job, do it part time and work overnight’, ‘you got to iterate and test’ and ‘lean startup! Lean Startup! Lean Startup!’ Why are we doing this – lean startup! Lean Startup!

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Adam: You mentioned your startup SkillSlate, which was acquired by TaskRabbit. What was it about the company’s position at that time that made decide to deliberately invest in growth? Adam: Often we’ll see startups build their growth team through a single function, like marketing. It’s been a lot of fun.

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