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Re: "Did you learn anything useful in VC?"

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:57:58 -0000

thanks, brian, and good to meet you!

Re: "Did you learn anything useful in VC?"

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:57:48 -0000

thanks, adam! wearing the bd and corp dev't hats :)

Re: "Did you learn anything useful in VC?"

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:32:48 -0000

Thanks! Glad to see you've found yourself in the VC ecosystem. And yes what you articulate certainly is an opportunity to get better at answers, but it's still not something you do anywhere near as frequently as you do asking questions when you're a VC.

Re: "Did you learn anything useful in VC?"

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:31:03 -0000

hah! good point, Michael. Better lucky than good.

Re: Sarah Tavel: Did you learn anything useful in VC?

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:14:48 -0000

Thanks, Nick, and definitely agreed on the evaluating deal structures quickly. I didn't quite get my 10k hours in, but perhaps one day I'll get there... :)

great to meet you!

Re: Gary Chou

Sarah Tavel — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:30:29 -0000

delightful. thanks for sharing.

Re: a16z

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:49:25 -0000

Huge huge congrats, Chris! of course, selfishly, I'm thrilled to hear you'll be joining this new yorker out west. keep me posted! I'm at a portfolio co so I think you're obligated :)

Re: Social Commerce Is Commerce With A Social Layer

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:20:58 -0000

Hi Fred - long time reader of your blog, but don't think I've ever commented! Glad to have an occasion.

I agree with your analysis if you're just looking at conversion rates. But it's worth noting that conversion rate is a very "last click" view of the world. Almost by definition "discovery" platforms like Pinterest and Facebook, or even comparison shopping engines, won't fair well when looking at conversion rates. Google is king there. But if e-commerce companies only optimize their acquisition traffic on "last click", they'll be forever beholden to Google (and customer acquisition costs that erode most of their gross margin). Social commerce occurs higher up in the acquisition funnel. So while they don't always "close the deal", if you measured their impact on an "all click" or "multi-attribution" basis, you'd see there is a lot more value to that traffic than the conversion rate indicates.

Obviously, now that I'm an employee of one of the social commerce sites you mentioned, I'm sure I appear biased. But this is a subject near and dear to my heart so I can't help myself (blogged about this here a couple years ago: http://www.adventurista.com....

thanks as always for posting your thoughts.

Re: Hiring an Associate at Bessemer

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:07:05 -0000

I know. I feel incredibly misled.

Re: The Developer Renaissance

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:05:02 -0000

Amen!

Re: The Developer Renaissance

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:29:10 -0000

Awesome comment, James. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Returning to NYC

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:21:55 -0000

Congrats, Joe! Sounds like a long overdue move to me :)

Re: Stop calling Groupon “social commerce”.

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:34:03 -0000

Or just Pinterest ☺

Re: Random Thought: Venture Capital's Freemium Model

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:30:45 -0000

Loving your comments. Yes – very true!

Re: The Developer Renaissance

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:13:04 -0000

Thanks, Ashish, and thanks for calling out Atlassian, FogCreek and 37Signals. Definitely early visionaries in this space.

Re: The Developer Renaissance

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:10:09 -0000

Adam – Thanks so much for stopping by and for the great comment. I hadn’t thought about ifttt in the way you describe, but you’re dead on. really interesting ideas. Also, agree that Parse is an impressive company. Really like what they’re doing. Thanks again for stopping by.
Sarah

Re: Holding your hand to the fire

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:12:52 -0000

Probably a good idea! (Though the point of the post, achem, Ethan, is that you shouldn't try to avoid all mistakes by reading a lot of blogs. You just need to dive in. THEN you can read blogs, understand what you did wrong, and avoid the mistake a second time.)

Re: Holding your hand to the fire

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:55:48 -0000

Thanks, Jayesh! Really appreciate it.

Re: The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success

Sarah Tavel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:14:33 -0000

awesome post, Vin. You guys really rock; love the story.

Re: Are you a vitamin, a painkiller… or a drug?

Sarah Tavel — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:30:05 -0000

Thank you for your email.

Normally, I hate autoresponder vacation emails and I never use them, but I'm told (if I'm lucky) I'll have just one honeymoon in my life, so I better make the most of it.
I'm currently on my honeymoon and will have limited access to email while I am gone. I will be back September 12th. I look forward to reading your email and responding when I return. If the matter is urgent, please email Amy at Amy@bvp.com. Thank you.

Re: Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of eCommerce: Introduction

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:41:26 -0000

Thanks, Barry!

Re: Stop calling Groupon “social commerce”.

Sarah Tavel — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:01:39 -0000

Reid – thanks for the comment and I 100% agree on how you define the importance of social commerce for discovery. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: The VC product is broken for 99% of founders and I want to fix it, one meeting at a time

Sarah Tavel — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:31:32 -0000

Phin - this is awesome. so glad you finally posted. so, any chance you're outsourcing this here survey? Would love to start gathering data. I'm still a Minimum Viable VC.

Re: Stop calling Groupon “social commerce”.

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:18:02 -0000

Steven - Thanks for the comment and sorry for the slow response. Yes, 50% off pricing has been around for a while, but *not for the inventory* available on Groupon.

How does Groupon use social as a product feature? It's all customer acquisition channel IMHO.

Re: 2011 is the year entrepreneurship went global

Sarah Tavel — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:38:04 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Semil. Great example.