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Rick Baker in Blackbird

Oct 30, 2016

Blackbird Mission and Values

It’s four and a half years since we embarked on the Blackbird Ventures journey. We’re proud of what the…

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Rick Baker in Blackbird

Sep 12, 2016

Lessons from saying no to 1,983 startups

At Blackbird we’ve now seen 2,012 startups since we started in September 2012.

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Niki Scevak in Blackbird

Nov 14, 2016

Great Teams in Great Markets

The generic answer of any venture investor about what they look for is always great teams in great markets. But that is too abstract to be useful. So here’s a little of what I’ve learnt over the past seven years at Blackbird and Startmate.

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Samantha Wong in Blackbird

Jul 12, 2016

How Investors Fall in Love

It’s fast approaching a year since I joined Blackbird. I’ve had the opportunity to pause and reflect on how much I’ve learned about investing and its corollary, fundraising, since I joined. Particularly from the viewpoint of the entrepreneur, all my preconceptions were mostly wrong.

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Samantha Wong in Blackbird

Jun 9, 2016

Thoughts on Founder Vesting

Much has been written about founder vesting by Brad Feld, Chris Dixon and others, but surprisingly few have touched on the topic of whether, and in what circumstances, it is reasonable to give the Company a buy-back right to a founder’s vested shares, and if so, at what price.

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Joel Connolly in Blackbird

Oct 26, 2016

“How could you not give a sh1t about changing the education industry?”

Duncan Anderson AMA Summary — Co-founder of Edrolo

Blackbird Ventures host weekly AMAs over on The Sunrise. Tune in Thursdays from 1pm AEST to take…

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Joel Connolly in Blackbird

Aug 24, 2016

“Building a startup is no different to playing grandslam tennis. You have to be content with no quality of life, putting everything on the line and giving it everything you have”

Bardia Housman AMA Summary

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Samantha Wong in Blackbird

Jun 30, 2016

Why is it a struggle to get more women in tech to support gender diversity in tech?

At Blackbird Ventures, we have been thinking more deeply about how to improve diversity in our portfolio and in the tech ecosystem in Australia as a whole. That is why we are very pleased…

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Joel Connolly in Blackbird

Oct 19, 2016

“ There is a lot of bad startup advice out there. Find a way to skip it.”

Manish Rai Jain AMA Summary — Founder of DGraph

Blackbird Ventures host weekly AMAs over on The Sunrise. Tune in Thursdays from 1pm AEST to take…

Niki Scevak in Blackbird

Aug 15, 2016

Helping (Robotic) Hands

tl;dr: For software to eat the world, we’ll need robots to deliver the meal. We’d love to fund ambitious Australians who are elegantly solving consumer and business problems using robotics.

These were the top 10 stories published by Blackbird in 2016. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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