Venture capitalist Anna Khan will be at PITCH NYC Conference as a lunchtime mentor. Get your $300 ticket to join us on November 14! By Anna Khan (Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners) I’ve had a lot of female entrepreneurs ask me the secret to successfully pitch a venture capitalist. Male entrepreneurs (in part through trial and [...]
Posts Tagged "Bessemer Venture Partners"
Hiring An Associate At Bessemer Venture Partners (Silicon Valley)
March 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
We’ve noticed that people who are successful in VC have already formed relationships with people in technology and are incredibly resourceful. By Sarah Tavel (Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners) We are looking to hire an Associate to join me and my colleague Jeremy Levine at Bessemer. This is a Silicon Valley-based opportunity, though we anticipate [...]
Founding VMware CEO Diane Greene Joins Google Board; VC Sarah Tavel Promoted Bessener Venture Partners Vice President
January 13, 2012 – 6:00 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Two pieces of sunny news for women in business and technology: As co-founder and CEO of VMware, Diane Greene led the company to an IPO the largest the tech industry has seen since Google’s. Recently, she was named to Google’s Board of Directors, bringing the number of [...]
The Developer Renaissance: An Investment Road Map For 2012
January 9, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Sarah Tavel (Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners) What an exciting time to be in this business. The “post PC era” and cloud computing are colliding to create a perfect storm. First, thanks to the post PC era, demand for software is exploding. Second, thanks to cloud computing, software development is becoming increasingly accessible. There’s [...]
Pooja Sankar Raises $6M For Her EduTech Startup Piazza
January 6, 2012 – 8:06 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Piazza Founder and CEO Pooja Sankar blogged on Women 2.0 a few months ago: “As a teenager, I never went outside alone, spoke to a boy other than my brother, or wore jeans or a short skirt.” The former Facebook engineer went to an all-girls high school [...]
Reading This Post Won’t Help You (Hold Your Hand to the Fire)
November 23, 2011 – 5:02 am
By Sarah Tavel (Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners) Several months ago, I wrote a post about the four stages of learning. Implicit in the transition out of stage 1 (the “enthusiastic beginner”) is the fact that to really learn something, you need to try to do it, and inevitably, do it wrong. Given the wealth of [...]
Is Your Product a Vitamin, a Painkiller or a Drug?
July 23, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Sarah Tavel (Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners) It’s become commonplace to describe products as either painkillers (“need to have”) or vitamins (“nice to have”). Painkillers are products that address existing needs/pain points. Companies selling painkillers harvest customer demand; the prospects are already searching for someone to fix their problem and take their money. Vitamins [...]
The Importance of Entrepreneurs Being Coachable
May 12, 2011 – 7:34 am
By Sarah Tavel (Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners) The other day, a very talented NYC-based entrepreneur asked me if I could grab lunch with him. He’s the CEO of a company whose user growth is the quintessential “hockey stick” ramp (so much so, that when he sent me the graph of his user growth, I [...]
