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September 26, 2013 06:05 pm GMT
Benchmark has stayed lean in a new world where Sand Hill Road is clamoring to offer its own value-added services. It seems like every venture capital firm is adding marketing, PR, recruiting, finance or content partners, but Benchmark comprises only investment partners. While some firms haven't been able to survive in the top-tier, post-Andreessen Horowitz generation, Benchmark has remained consistent in its ability to bet on the right entrepreneurs and founders at the Series A stage (in Twitter, it was even earlier, when the company only had twenty-plus employees). In fact, the firm has only four partners, yet has been the lead on investments in some of the most iconic companies of the past decade, including Twitter, Instagram, OpenTable, Uber, Nextdoor, Zendesk, Snapchat, Yelp, ResearchGate, New Relic and many, many others. What makes Benchmark different?
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How Twitter And Uber Backer Benchmark Is Winning At Early-Stage Investing And Staying Lean
Benchmark has stayed lean in a new world where Sand Hill Road is clamoring to offer its own value-added services. It seems like every venture capital firm is adding marketing, PR, recruiting, finance or content partners, but Benchmark comprises only investment partners. While some firms haven't been able to survive in the top-tier, post-Andreessen Horowitz generation, Benchmark has remained consistent in its ability to bet on the right entrepreneurs and founders at the Series A stage (in Twitter, it was even earlier, when the company only had twenty-plus employees). In fact, the firm has only four partners, yet has been the lead on investments in some of the most iconic companies of the past decade, including Twitter, Instagram, OpenTable, Uber, Nextdoor, Zendesk, Snapchat, Yelp, ResearchGate, New Relic and many, many others. What makes Benchmark different?Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/aC7njkigjiQ/
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