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Being a Founder is tough, from finding product market fit to building up a killer team. We’ve rounded up the most frequently asked topics and written our take on them here.
Cheet Sheet #1: Key Metrics to Track for Marketplaces
It’s no secret that at Samaipata, we love data and we love to use it to make decisions and track how we’re doing. Okay, so maybe you’re thinking “Great, so you guys are a little nerdy and you love numbers. What’s that got to do with me?”
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Understanding Non-Dilutive Financing Sources in France: "Quick-Win" Guide for Founders
Les phases de forte croissance de la plupart des “Scales-up” françaises sont très médiatisées. La presse relate de près les progrès de nos “success stories”:
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9 Tips to Turn Your Startup Board into a Secret Weapon
Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe.
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Customer Love Framework: What We Look for in Digital Brands
We think of a brand as any product, content or service that establishes an emotional connection with the end user/customer (be it B2C or B2B) and create communities, a sense of belonging, a lifestyle that goes beyond a specific product or service.
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How to Nail Your First VC Call
To be honest, I don’t know how many calls with founders we have had the privilege to do after 3 years of operations at Samaipata.
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Samaipata But Never Asked
One of the things that makes being a VC so fascinating is that big part of our job is to ask questions and learn from exceptional entrepreneurs.
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Defensibility in Digital Platforms
The main driver of long-term value creation. “Would you invest in a marketplace in the absence of network effects?” A tricky question I was recently asked by David Pritchard, a marketplace founder (OpenTable Europe) at an event we, at Samaipata, organised in London
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Samaipata Analyses La Nevera Roja's Deck
In 2011, I co-founded La Nevera Roja, a food delivery marketplace that was sold to Rocket Internet 40 months after launch for ~$100 Million*, becoming one of the few so-called Centaurus in the short history of Southern European Venture Capital (A startup worth $100 million or more).
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Filecoin - How Blockchain Is Changing the Game for Marketplaces
The last few months have shown us the astonishing pace at which the global decentralized markets have evolved. Here at Samaipata, we’ve had a close eye on the technology, and we acknowledge that the blockchain will change the funding scene, both for venture capitals as for startups.
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