Insights

January 2024

Rebecca Lynn
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Bloomberg Technology VC Spotlight: Consolidation in the VC Industry

January 2024

Rebecca Lynn
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Bloomberg Technology VC Spotlight: Consolidation in the VC Industry

October 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn - Why Good Marketing Beats Good Product, Use Cases for AI, Tactical GTM Advice

October 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn - Why Good Marketing Beats Good Product, Use Cases for AI, Tactical GTM Advice

October 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Diversity In Startups Requires Strong STEM Pipelines—and Government-Mandated Reporting Won’t Have Much To Do With It

October 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Diversity In Startups Requires Strong STEM Pipelines—and Government-Mandated Reporting Won’t Have Much To Do With It

July 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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A Case Study on Casetext: Six Insights Drawn from Six Years and a $650M Acquisition

July 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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A Case Study on Casetext: Six Insights Drawn from Six Years and a $650M Acquisition

June 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Bloomberg Technology VC Spotlight: AI and Venture Trends

June 2023

Rebecca Lynn
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Bloomberg Technology VC Spotlight: AI and Venture Trends

December 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn - Finding Your Customers

December 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn - Finding Your Customers

November 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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Now Is the Time to Be Opportunistic

November 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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Now Is the Time to Be Opportunistic

September 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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M&A Q&A with Mike Ghaffary

September 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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M&A Q&A with Mike Ghaffary

August 2022

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Driving Revenue With Enterprise Partners: How to Scale Efficiently With a B2B2C Model

August 2022

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Driving Revenue With Enterprise Partners: How to Scale Efficiently With a B2B2C Model

August 2022

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Series A Q&A With Paul Hsiao: Advice for Founders Fundraising In A Storm

August 2022

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Series A Q&A With Paul Hsiao: Advice for Founders Fundraising In A Storm

June 2022

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Growth Marketing in a Down Market: Which Channels to Use Now

June 2022

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Growth Marketing in a Down Market: Which Channels to Use Now

June 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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How To Raise Venture Capital for Your Startup Regardless of Market Conditions

June 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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How To Raise Venture Capital for Your Startup Regardless of Market Conditions

May 2022

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Series A Q&A With Paul Hsiao: Most Common Questions About Raising Your Series A Round

May 2022

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Series A Q&A With Paul Hsiao: Most Common Questions About Raising Your Series A Round

May 2022

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Whale Hunting, Part II

May 2022

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Whale Hunting, Part II

May 2022

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From Product-Led Growth to Profitable Growth: Why PLG is Much More Than a Free Trial

May 2022

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From Product-Led Growth to Profitable Growth: Why PLG is Much More Than a Free Trial

April 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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Tech Needs To Step Up In Effort To Rebuild America’s Middle Class

April 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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Tech Needs To Step Up In Effort To Rebuild America’s Middle Class

February 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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The Marketplace Checklist: 16 Questions

February 2022

Mike Ghaffary
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The Marketplace Checklist: 16 Questions

January 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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What I Tell All My CEOs After A Year of Conversations with Marketing Leaders at Airtable, Curology, One Medical, Twilio, and Uber

January 2022

Rebecca Lynn
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What I Tell All My CEOs After A Year of Conversations with Marketing Leaders at Airtable, Curology, One Medical, Twilio, and Uber

January 2022

Canvas
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The Web3 World

January 2022

Canvas
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The Web3 World

December 2021

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Honing Your Positioning Strategy: Read These Insights from Top Product Marketers at Peloton and Uber

December 2021

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Honing Your Positioning Strategy: Read These Insights from Top Product Marketers at Peloton and Uber

November 2021

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Sales in the Early Stages: Proven Advice for Getting It Right

November 2021

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Sales in the Early Stages: Proven Advice for Getting It Right

October 2021

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Building a Growth Engine From Day 1: Advice from Early Marketing Leaders at Headspace and Zillow

October 2021

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Building a Growth Engine From Day 1: Advice from Early Marketing Leaders at Headspace and Zillow

October 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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Wall Street Journal Women to Watch 2021

October 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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Wall Street Journal Women to Watch 2021

August 2021

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[LISTEN] How the Data Economy Is Impacting Consumer and the State of the Series A

August 2021

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[LISTEN] How the Data Economy Is Impacting Consumer and the State of the Series A

May 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Every Early-Stage Startup Must Identify and Evaluate a Strategic Advantage

May 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Every Early-Stage Startup Must Identify and Evaluate a Strategic Advantage

May 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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Too Much Money, Too Few Deals—Investing in Today’s Startup Ecosystem

May 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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Too Much Money, Too Few Deals—Investing in Today’s Startup Ecosystem

May 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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5 Post-COVID Trends in Digital Health Investing

May 2021

Rebecca Lynn
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5 Post-COVID Trends in Digital Health Investing

April 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Knowing When Your Startup Should Go All-In On Business Development

April 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Knowing When Your Startup Should Go All-In On Business Development

March 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Marketplace Checklist: How To Analyze Labor Marketplaces

March 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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Marketplace Checklist: How To Analyze Labor Marketplaces

February 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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What Is The Right Amount of Bureaucracy For A Startup? Introducing “Minimum Viable Bureaucracy” (MVB)

February 2021

Mike Ghaffary
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What Is The Right Amount of Bureaucracy For A Startup? Introducing “Minimum Viable Bureaucracy” (MVB)

January 2021

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Focusing As You Scale: A Conversation with Kevin Ryan, Founder and Chairman of MongoDB, Zola, and Gilt Groupe

January 2021

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Focusing As You Scale: A Conversation with Kevin Ryan, Founder and Chairman of MongoDB, Zola, and Gilt Groupe

November 2020

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The Mindset of a Data Leader

November 2020

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The Mindset of a Data Leader

September 2020

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The Third-Party API Economy

September 2020

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The Third-Party API Economy

June 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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How Eat24 Scaled to $700 Million Gross Revenue in 5 Years

June 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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How Eat24 Scaled to $700 Million Gross Revenue in 5 Years

June 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Canvas Ventures, speaking at online Marketplace Conference

June 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Canvas Ventures, speaking at online Marketplace Conference

May 2020

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Venturing into Voice with True Ventures & Canvas Ventures

May 2020

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Venturing into Voice with True Ventures & Canvas Ventures

March 2020

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Venture Investing in the Age of the Coronavirus

March 2020

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Venture Investing in the Age of the Coronavirus

January 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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[LISTEN] Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Canvas Ventures, discusses how to evaluate online marketplaces

January 2020

Mike Ghaffary
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[LISTEN] Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Canvas Ventures, discusses how to evaluate online marketplaces

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Can iPhone Apps Actually Modify Your Behavior For Good?

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Can iPhone Apps Actually Modify Your Behavior For Good?

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Introducing The A PLUS Companies: The Advantages This Year's Consumer Tech IPOs Could Have Over FANG

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Introducing The A PLUS Companies: The Advantages This Year's Consumer Tech IPOs Could Have Over FANG

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Where I'm Investing and 15 Marketplace Questions

April 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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Where I'm Investing and 15 Marketplace Questions

March 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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After Selling Eat24 To Grubhub, Mike Ghaffary Joins Canvas Ventures To Find Next Consumer Hit

March 2019

Mike Ghaffary
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After Selling Eat24 To Grubhub, Mike Ghaffary Joins Canvas Ventures To Find Next Consumer Hit

December 2018

Rebecca Lynn
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The Shifting Funding Landscape - 2018 Slush Panel Featuring Rebecca Lynn

December 2018

Rebecca Lynn
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The Shifting Funding Landscape - 2018 Slush Panel Featuring Rebecca Lynn

September 2018

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures on Nuclear Reactors, Failure and Asking Questions

September 2018

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures on Nuclear Reactors, Failure and Asking Questions

May 2018

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Fireside Chat with Anurag Gupta and Paul Hsiao

May 2018

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Fireside Chat with Anurag Gupta and Paul Hsiao

April 2018

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Why You Have To Raise $100m+ If You Want To Go Big Today, The 5 Fundamentals To Starting and Scaling A Successful Marketplace & Why Female Founders Under-Promise and Over-Deliver

April 2018

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Why You Have To Raise $100m+ If You Want To Go Big Today, The 5 Fundamentals To Starting and Scaling A Successful Marketplace & Why Female Founders Under-Promise and Over-Deliver

September 2017

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Paul Hsiao Moderates the The Future of AI Panel at Mobile World Congress America

September 2017

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Paul Hsiao Moderates the The Future of AI Panel at Mobile World Congress America

December 2016

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca on The Twenty Minute VC - Podcast

December 2016

Rebecca Lynn
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Rebecca on The Twenty Minute VC - Podcast

November 2016

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Paul Hsiao Applauds Development of "New Collar" Workers and Calls for Computer Science as Second Language

November 2016

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Paul Hsiao Applauds Development of "New Collar" Workers and Calls for Computer Science as Second Language

May 2015

Gary Little
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Why APIs will Save Your Business

May 2015

Gary Little
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Why APIs will Save Your Business

January 2015

Rebecca Lynn
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Thesis-Driven Investing in Digital Health: An Interview with Rebecca Lynn

January 2015

Rebecca Lynn
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Thesis-Driven Investing in Digital Health: An Interview with Rebecca Lynn

May 2014

Rebecca Lynn
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Five Top VCs Pick The Ten Biggest Tech Trends Of The Next Five Years

May 2014

Rebecca Lynn
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Five Top VCs Pick The Ten Biggest Tech Trends Of The Next Five Years

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