The Best of Bill Gurley
6 most popular Bill Gurley articles, as voted by our community.
VC @benchmark, Investor: @grubhub, @zillow, @uber, @stitchfix, @nextdoor, @glassdoor, @hacker0x01, @solvhealth, @roverdotcom, @instawork Trustee @sfiscience
Bill Gurley on Marketplaces
All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces
Shared by 97, including Anand Sanwal, Mo Schuster, andrew chen, Martin Rajcan, Philippe Gauvin
Bill Gurley on Saas
The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula
Shared by 91, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Jacob Jarnvall, kp, Chris Messina, blinch
Bill Gurley on Sharing Economy
How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
Shared by 117, including Moritz Meenen, Philippe Surber, Dominik Grolimund, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Jeff Richards
Bill Gurley on Venture Capital
On the Road to Recap:
Shared by 159, including Dominik Grolimund, Marc Eglon, Clemens, Diogo Mónica, Michael Robinson
Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist
In his recent bankruptcy proceeding filing, John Ray III, the new CEO and Chief Restructuring Officer at FTX, minced no words: I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. I have been…
«Learning how to meet and perform an audit is part of “growing up” as a company. Some founders unfortunately have an explicit aversion to audits. From their POV, they view this step as unnecessary and bureaucratic. The problem is auditors are the “referees” in business. Insisting on running without them is the equivalent of trying to rewrite your own rules.»
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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth
(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , in which he…
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