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Uber Wins Crunchie for Best Overall Startup—2nd Year in a Row!
Menlo hosted its annual reception celebrating the best in tech, gathering its startup ecosystem for a night of lively conversation.
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Instant Gratification and the Power of Right Now
In this post, we will explain why on-demand marketplaces have a distinct advantage in terms of avoiding disintermediation, maintaining pricing power, and boosting acquisition…
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The Big Factor in Fintech
Menlo Ventures is thrilled to announce that we are leading a $40 million Series C investment in Bluevine, a next-generation, technology-enabled SMB factoring business.
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Supply-Side Economics
At Menlo, we encourage our companies not to neglect the supply side, as supplier retention is directly correlated to overall platform quality and NPS.
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Let’s Get Vertical
Within a broad horizontal marketplace, it becomes more difficult to achieve sufficient liquidity, whereas a vertical marketplace immediately brings together buyers and sellers seeking…
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All About the Rake
It’s simply inevitable that high-flying businesses’ growth rates will moderate over time, as the universe of unaddressed consumers becomes smaller, and each incremental sale…
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Power Play: Cisco to Acquire 1 Mainstream
Today, Cisco announced the acquisition of our portfolio company 1 Mainstream. Congratulations to Rajeev Raman, founder and CEO, and the entire team!
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Breach Analytics: The Next Billion-Dollar Investment Opportunity
Based on the very nature and prevalence of today’s data breach incidents, most of which go undiscovered for many months, the promise of breach…
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The Only Metric That Truly Matters for a Marketplace Is the Shadow Market
If a marketplace expands into the “shadow market” (or a class of buyers that was previously unavailable to a supplier), then it has the…
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Red Hat Acquires Ansible, Growing Opportunity in DevOps
This acquisition will immediately catapult Red Hat—already a leader in hybrid cloud—into an industry leadership role in the fast-growing DevOps segment of cloud computing.
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10 Laws of Successful Marketplaces
It has many names: the Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, the On-Demand Economy, and even most recently called by Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Gig Economy.
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Taking Stock: Ranking the Next Billion-Dollar Cybersecurity Markets
This post originally appeared in the RSA Conference blog. With IT security spending estimated to crest the $75 billion annual mark before the end of…