This week, Harry Stebbings of The Twenty Minute VC interviews Upfront Ventures partner Greg Bettinelli about all things LA, tech and retail.
Maybe it’s the Southern California influence, but it’s rare that I have a meeting where most people aren’t in jeans — myself included. While as a society, our work attire…
If you’ve ever shopped online, you know firsthand that online returns can be a huge challenge. Unbeknownst to most outside observers, online shopping returns cause all sorts of problems…
We are living in an era of unprecedented and ever increasing consumer expectations, with immediacy and seamless user experiences the new normal. But for most legacy brands and businesses, this level of execution is a bar…
I feel like investors and entrepreneurs are doing themselves a disservice by bucketing all types of companies that sell stuff online into the same 15-year-old catch-all category of “ecommerce.” As a VC, I am trying to challenge myself to a higher level of…
There’s a fundamental shift taking place in the way consumers relate to second-hand goods. In the past, people have purchased “used cars,”…
We spend more time in our beds than nearly any other space in life. And we now know that quality of sleep is one of the single most important elements of living a healthy life. And yet, for most consumers, bedding and…
