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Marketplaces, Brokers and Storefronts
Over the last decade, we’ve seen tremendous growth in commerce transacted online.
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Rick Zullo
The Technology Deployment Phase
Since the founding of Equal, we have focused on the application of technology within our industries to transform their respective value chains (or as we…
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The Premium of Platforms
Valuation Insights from the Bessemer Cloud Index
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Sophia Dodd
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Hick’s Law – Why Fortune Favors the Focused
Throughout my life, I’ve been focused on making the most of what I had. At our dinner table, we finished our plates clean every night to not waste food…
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Rick Zullo
A Playbook for Value Creation
While the process for identifying great companies is never uniform, there are indeed best practices to follow in building scalable, defensible…
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Evolution of Investors in the New Digital Age
In the last year, we’ve seen the high profile bankruptcies of WeWork and Convoy. Each of these were poster-children “disruptors” over the last…
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Your Fund Size is Your Strategy
One of our LPs often tells me, “Your fund size is your strategy.” I was at a dinner with a long-time investor the other night and he noted, “the NYC…
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The Art of Keiretsu
Transforming Trillion Dollar Value Chains | As a firm, we are obsessive about the industries that we invest in. We do an immense amount of work to study…
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Phoenix Rounds
Investing Before Inflection Points
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On the Importance of Mental Models in Investing
At times, venture can feel like the least structured form of professional investment approaches. The availability of data is sparse (especially at the…
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Competitive Specialization in Founder Support
Rethinking how we serve founders
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Going Your Own Way
Defying Pattern Recognition of Venture Capital Managers
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