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By clicking "Accept", you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. View our Privacy Policy for more information. ACCEPT Monica Black joins Resolute Ventures Resolute Ventures logo Resolute Ventures logo * About * Team * Companies * Community * News * About * Our Team * Companies * Community * News * Press/Media X (formerly Twitter) icon Instagram icon Facebook icon LinkedIn icon Youtube icon Privacy & Cookies Policy WE ARE RESOLUTE. BY FOUNDERS, FOR FOUNDERS. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video tag. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video tag. WE ARE A COMMUNITY For Resolute, it’s all about the people. There’s nothing we love more than working with founders who have a mission to do something that matters. It’s infectious. It’s what makes us so passionate about what we do. And it’s the exact same mission we have in building Resolute. Our community COMPANIES & FOUNDERS Slide 2 of 15. SIGNIFYD Signifyd help e-commerce businesses sell confidently while protecting them from fraud. Founded August 2011 Invested December 2012 Our community WHOOP Optimizing performance for elite athletes and teams. (Co-investors: Kima Ventures and angels) Founded December 2011 Invested August 2013 Our community METADATA Intelligent data-driven marketing engine for B2B companies. Founded Invested July 2020 Our community UJET Support as good as your product, service and brand. UJET brings joy to customer support by helping companies resolve problems faster. Founded Invested December 2015 Our community LUMEN The first device to hack your metabolism and help you lose weight. Founded Invested March 2018 Our community VERCEL Deploy your website quickly, without having to manually configure DNS, SSL, CDN or hosting. Integrate with your favorite tools, and bring your entire team of developers and designers closer together. Founded Invested December 2015 Our community OPENDOOR NASDAQ:OPEN Liquidity for Residential Real Estate. Founded January 2014 Invested June 2014 Our community BARKBOX Barkbox aims to make dogs happy and healthy and is the leading brand for dog parents everywhere. Founded January 2011 Invested June 2012 Our community AVEN HOLDINGS Aven uses technology to reduce interest rates that people pay. Founded Invested June 2019 Our community ACTIVEFENCE ActiveFence identifies and track malicious activities online. Founded Invested February 2019 Our community GREENHOUSE Greenhouse provides recruiting software that works the way you want it to. (Co-investors: Social Capital and others) Founded January 2012 Invested September 2012 Our community PASSPORT Passport is the next-generation international shipping company. Brands and 3PLs love Passport because, well, their customers trust us. Founded Invested January 2018 Our community BEYOND PRICING Automated data-driven pricing for your Airbnb and vacation rental is here. Founded January 2014 Invested March 2014 Our community HELLO HEART The easiest way to track blood pressure and understand your heart health, using a FREE app for iPhone, Apple Watch & Android. Founded May 2013 Invested February 2015 Our community APPZEN Artificial Intelligence for Expense Reports Audit and Compliance. (Co-investors: Bloomberg Beta) Founded December 2012 Invested April 2016 Our community Arrow Left Arrow Right OUR LATEST ARTICLES WELCOME, JESSICA! December 18, 2023 by Mike Hirshland We are thrilled to welcome Jessica Donahue as our new Head of Operations. Jessica will lead founder success and community, as well as business operations across the firm. Read full article WELCOME, MONICA October 18, 2023 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Monica Black joins Resolute Ventures. Read more about Monica and the Resolute partnership by clicking the button below. Read full article RESOLUTE HAPPENINGS: 2020 HIGHLIGHTS December 23, 2020 by Mike Hirshland Words can’t describe 2020, so we won’t try. Instead, we’d like to share some Resolute highlights from the year to give you an overview of what’s been happening across the portfolio.The headline is that it has been an especially exciting year for the Resolute family. We’ve made 11 new investments bac Read full article ANNOUNCING RESOLUTE V August 10, 2022 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Today we announced the closing of Resolute V, a $100M seed and pre-seed fund, and for the first time, a $50M Opportunity Fund.The primary focus of Resolute V will be the same as the firm's previous four funds—to identify and jumpstart founders who are in the early stages of development by not only p Read full article FOUNDER PROFILE: SAUJIN YI OF LIQUID December 21, 2020 by Mike Hirshland What inspired you to start Liquid?I spent four years building FlexTeam (still running) which recruits teams of executive-level women for business consulting projects, and the talent that we found outside the traditional employee talent pool just blew me away. Each professional had a different reason Read full article WHAT WE ARE THINKING NOW June 15, 2020 by Mike Hirshland Since George Floyd’s tragic killing and the wave of protests that have followed, we have been asking ourselves what we can and should do. Here is what we are thinking.Speak up. While we ordinarily don’t see it as our role, as a VC fund, to opine on social and political issues, in this case we believ Read full article CATCHING UP WITH ONE OF OUR NEWEST FOUNDERS: LINDA KLUG OF AIRIN November 6, 2019 by Raanan Bar-Cohen With her boundless curiosity and drive to solve a variety of problems, Linda embodies the founder spirit. Need proof? Airin is Linda’s seventh start-up.It was during her time at Axiom Recovery-- which she founded just prior to Airin-- that she realized she still had another mission ahead of her. Axi Read full article CATCHING UP WITH OUR NEWEST FOUNDER: BARAK KAUFMAN OF INTELLO February 26, 2019 by Raanan Bar-Cohen We want to introduce you to one of Resolute's newest founders, Barak Kaufman, who co-founded Intello with Shlomo Dalezman. Intello is the intelligent platform to manage the lifecycle of your software applications. We caught up with Barak, and here are a few interesting details about him...1. Tell us Read full article ANNOUNCING RESOLUTE IV January 16, 2019 by Mike Hirshland We are thrilled to announce the closing of Resolute IV, a $75 million fund with the same focus as our first three funds: to be lead investors who provide “first check” capital to extraordinary founders at the very outset of their journey, and to provide them with a highly supportive network of peers Read full article CATCHING UP WITH UJET CEO, ANAND JANEFALKAR... February 15, 2018 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Congratulations to UJET on their recent $25 million Series B fundraise! UJET’s software lets customers reach support agents directly in a smartphone app, on the web or by phone. Anand Janefalkar, founder and chief executive officer of UJET, says the company gives equal priority to all channels, so c Read full article FUNDING TIME September 18, 2018 by Mike Hirshland It’s been a record-setting fundraising summer for Resolute Founders: Opendoor raised $325 million pushing the company's valuation above $2 billion; Signifyd raised $100 million in a Series D round led by Premji Invest; Greenhouse raised a $50 million D from Riverwood Capital; Reonomy closed a $30 mi Read full article FEATURED FOUNDER MAAYAN September 25, 2018 by Mike Hirshland Maayan is busy. Though she had a baby girl in early May, she’s actively signing on new customers, and just added diabetes management and an activity tracker to Hello Heart’s cardio health app. She was also included in a recent article in Forbes! You’re a rockstar, Maayan! Read full article ON THE ROAD WITH RESOLUTE November 7, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Resolute was busy on the road the last 2 weeks, visiting our Founders in Southern California and New York. At the end of October we enjoyed hosting a cocktail party in Venice Beach, while watching the World Series, and the following week, we had a cozy dinner in Greenwich Village. There is nothing l Read full article CONGRATS ON CLUBHOUSE SERIES A December 12, 2017 by Mike Hirshland Big congrats to Kurt and Andrew and the Clubhouse team on raising a $10 million Series A, led by Battery Ventures.Kurt gets the award for most unusual initial pitch setting -- accompanying me on a last minute emergency shopping trip to get a new fridge the day before Thanksgiving. Always the cool cu Read full article CONGRATS TO NODESOURCE ON SERIES B December 26, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen It's been an incredible year for NodeSource, punctuated by the announcement of their Series B raise.As CEO and founder Joe McCann wrote in the announcement post:...it's no surprise that NodeSource has added dozens of new customers in the past eighteen months, including PayPal, Delta Airlines, GoPro, Read full article CONGRATS TO APPZEN ON $13M SERIES A October 30, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Super excited for Resolute-backed AppZen, as they announce their $13 million Series A today.AppZen has built an artificial intelligence platform for the back office which has resonated with happy customers including Amazon, Comcast and Intuit.Anant Kale, CEO and Co-Founder of AppZen, has really buil Read full article RESOLUTE TEAM SAILING October 18, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Yesterday, the Resolute Ventures Family sailed the San Francisco Bay in one of the America’s Cup racing boats! The boat was the USA 76, originally used by the Oracle Racing Team in 2003, at the America’s Cup in Auckland New Zealand. Not only did we learn how to read the currents and winds, we were i Read full article CONGRATS BITIUM ON ACQUISITION BY GOOGLE September 26, 2017 by Mike Hirshland It was the Spring of 2012. I was still running around trying to hustle more capital for Resolute I, and was in LA for a couple days. Along my circuit of meetings, I stopped in to visit Paul Bricault at Amplify, who walked me around and introduced me to a few of their teams. For some reason I can't f Read full article CONGRATS TRACKR ON SERIES B August 2, 2017 by Mike Hirshland Shout out to Chris and Christian and the TrackR team on raising its $50 million Series B, led by Steve Case's Revolution Growth Fund.It's been just two years since our original seed investment, and the company has been on quite the roll since -- including a Series A with Brad Feld from Foundry Group Read full article WELCOME CAROLINE TALLEY September 19, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen We are thrilled to welcome Caroline Talley, our new Director of Founder and Network Development! Caroline will work with us and our Founders to make the overall Resolute experience be as authentically positive, helpful and enjoyable as possible.What struck us in getting to know Caroline is how excit Read full article ANOTHER FANTASTIC RESOLUTE FOUNDER SUMMIT: CAMP RESOLUTE 2017 June 29, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Last month we held our annual founder summit, where we bring together all of our Resolute-backed founders for a mix of fun, workshops, and just some quality time getting to know each other.This year was amazing, and we have a few photos back from the event that we posted in our community section. Read full article CONGRATS TO CLUTTER ON $64M SERIES C June 13, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Very excited for Resolute-backed Clutter, as they announced today a $64M Series C.Clutter's clear message is that it offers full-service storage so you never have to visit a storage unit again.When I first met Clutter's co-founder Brian Thomas, what struck me most was his sense of purpose, but also Read full article CONGRATS ON SIGNIFYD'S $56 MILLION SERIES C May 18, 2017 by Mike Hirshland Huge congrats to Resolute-backed Signifyd on closing a $56 million Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures.When we first met Signifyd founders Raj Ramanand and Michael Liberty, they were two PayPal fraud and risk veterans with a bold idea. Instead of offering E-commerce merchants software to help them Read full article CARMERA LAUNCHES TODAY June 5, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen When I first reconnected with Ro Gupta, co-founder of CARMERA, over two years ago, we quickly took a stroll down memory lane on what it was like to be part of the movement to democratize publishing. I had worked at Automattic (WordPress), and Ro had been at Disqus.When I asked Ro what he was now wor Read full article CONGRATS ON GREATS $10 MILLION SERIES B May 8, 2017 by Mike Hirshland Congrats to Resolute-backed GREATS on raising a $10 million Series B, led by consumer private equity firm JH Partners. We're thrilled to welcome JH onto the team. As investors in iconic retail brands including Bare Escentuals, Design within Reach and Alex and Ani, JH brings awesome hands-on experien Read full article UJET LAUNCHES TODAY May 4, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen When I first met Anand, the CEO and founder of UJET, back in 2015 - he immediately impressed me as a passionate, mission-driven founder who had a vision for how to fix the standard but painful customer service experience that is all too familiar.Anand and his team promised to "bring joy to customer Read full article CONGRATS TRUSTAR ON SERIES A February 9, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Today, we’re proud to announce that our portfolio company TruSTAR has raised a $5M Series A, led by Storm Ventures.TruSTAR is the first security intelligence exchange platform built to incentivize information sharing. TruSTAR's platform gives customers control over their data while providing an unde Read full article CONGRATS FIG ON SERIES A January 19, 2017 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Congrats to Fig on closing a Series A co-led by Spark Capital and Greycroft Partners. Fig is out to completely revolutionize how video games are funded and published. With "Fig Game Shares," non-accredited investors are able to invest in the future of a particular game title. In 2016, Fig hosted 4 o Read full article FIG JOINS THE FAMILY April 1, 2015 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Fig, or Loose Tooth Industries, has developed an online platform for developing video games. By bringing together fans and investors, Fig is looking to redefine the way video games are produced, hoping to inspire new community relevant games by enabling the studios to work with their fans. This new Read full article RESOLUTE III: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME April 4, 2017 by Mike Hirshland The more things change, the more they stay the same. When we first started Resolute, we sought out to invest in great founders at the very beginning of their journey. And today Raanan and I announce Resolute III, a $65 million fund for investing in early seed opportunities. Our bread and butter will Read full article INTRODUCING ORBITERA July 1, 2015 by Mike Hirshland We are excited to announce our recent backing of Orbitera. Orbitera is a cloud commerce marketplace platform that caters towards software vendors, service providers, and organizations to help implement cloud ready services. As companies are currently migrating over to cloud technologies by the mass Read full article WELCOME TO THE FAMILY GREATS! April 1, 2014 by Mike Hirshland I am happy to announce our recent partnership with Greats, an up and coming men’s sneaker brand. They are disrupting the sneaker industry by creating a channel for men to buy high quality footwear at an affordable value price. They are able to do this by cutting out the traditional wholesale model Read full article INTRODUCING CLUTTER TO THE PORTFOLIO! April 1, 2015 by Raanan Bar-Cohen I am excited to announce that we have recently added Clutter to the Resolute family! Clutter is an easy to use, on-demand storage solution that minimizes the pain and hassle associated with traditional storage offerings. With clutter, storage is a one button process for the consumer, and Clutter w Read full article WELCOMING BEYOND TO THE RESOLUTE FAMILY November 13, 2016 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Real estate and property management has been around forever, but no one approach to this property rental industry has arisen as the most efficient in regards to optimizing revenue. Being a $75b industry, it is fair to say that the opportunity cost of lost revenue due to inefficiencies has lost rent Read full article WELCOME TO THE FAMILY TRACKR! October 6, 2015 by Mike Hirshland We are thrilled to welcome TrackR to the Resolute family, and to join Brad Feld of Foundry Group in the TrackR's Series A financing.TrackR is a Santa Barbara, California-based startup company of 15, founded in 2009 by Chris Herbertand Christian Smith, whose mission is to completely automate the proc Read full article WELCOME NODESOURCE! March 1, 2015 by Raanan Bar-Cohen Node.js is currently the largest open source project in the world. In essence, Node.js is a platform that uses javascript to power all the back end development needed to integrate multiple technologies into a single service. Nodesource is leading this open source project, running conferences, and Read full article NEWEST PUP IN THE LITTER: BARKBOX June 1, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Against all odds, I am placing a bet on a subscription box business, Barkbox. This business strategy has been looked down upon in the VC world recently, but I couldn’t resist backing this dog goody bag business. I have worked closely with the Founder and CEO Matt Meeker for over 5 years now, as he Read full article CONGRATS TO GREENHOUSE SOFTWARE ON RAISING SERIES B March 17, 2015 by Mike Hirshland Congrats to Greenhouse on raising a great Series B led by Benchmark Capital, only 6 months after closing its Series A.We are excited about Greenhouse first and foremost because we think they are building a powerful business. But Greenhouse’s success also is nice validation for two features of Resol Read full article MICROSOFT ACQUIRES SUNRISE: A RETROSPECTIVE March 17, 2015 by Mike Hirshland Today, Microsoft announced that it has acquired our portfolio company, Sunrise, the leading calendaring app. Huge congrats to Pierre, Jeremy, and the entire Sunrise team.They’ve had a single-minded focus on delighting their users, and we are all thrilled that that focus has paid off. With Microsoft, Read full article WELCOME RAANAN! May 20, 2014 by Mike Hirshland Today marks what may be my proudest and most exciting day in the brief history of Resolute Ventures – the opportunity to welcome Raanan Bar-Cohen as my Partner.The founding and launch of Resolute has been a true labor of love, with all the requisite moments of doubt, frustration, pride and joy. I a Read full article RESOLUTE IS HIRING A SAN FRAN ROCKSTAR! January 21, 2014 by Mike Hirshland Yup, you heard it here. We are looking to hire a Resolute Rockstar (aka, Principal), based in SF, to assist with facilitating our founder community, enabling the sharing of knowledge and best practices amongst founders, and managing our imminent (sorta) Seed to Series A blog.The Role: The Resolute Read full article SHOP-HERS CLOSES FLOODGATE/BONO LED SERIES A December 16, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Big congrats to the folks at Shop-Hers, who have quietly been amassing quite the rabid set of buyers on next-to-no capital. Not anymore, having raised $3.5 million from Floodgate, Bono, and others. Techcrunch has the story here. Read full article SETH GOLDSTEIN TALKS DJZ WITH BLOOMBERG TV June 1, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Check out the interview here. Read full article THE WOMEN I'VE BACKED December 16, 2013 by Mike Hirshland The tech world surely has a ways to go to achieve gender equality, but I’m here to tell you there are some awesome founders out there right now who happen to be women. Hopefully, the abundance of high caliber women founders will lead to more gender-neutrality in VC investing. It has for me. With Read full article CHECK OUT THIS EIDO SEARCH INTERVIEW December 14, 2013 by Mike Hirshland A more recent addition to the Resolute Family, Eido Search is a very cool company that uses advanced information processing techniques to draw insight from financial time series data. The technology is today being used by traders, analysts, investment managers and strategists in Equities, Futures/FX Read full article CONGRATS ON THE LAUNCH OF RUNNABLE -- THE "YOUTUBE OF CODE" October 30, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Resolute-backed Runnable launches today, a cool service that allows you not just to find software snippets, APIs, etc, but also to modify them and run the modifications in your browser. As the development of software and services transitions to a more distributed, crowdsourced process, which often Read full article GYMPACT NAMED TO BUSINESS INSIDER COOLEST 50 December 14, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Shout out to GymPact for being named to Business Insider's Top 50 Coolest Small Businesses in America. Way to go Team GymPact! Read full article CONGRATS TO GREENHOUSE ON RAISING SERIES A November 28, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Big congrats to Resolute-backed Greenhouse on their successful completion of a $2.7M raise, led by Social + Capital Partnership's Mamoon Hamid.Techcrunch had some nice coverage:Greenhouse turns the messy hiring process into a well-oiled machine for fast-growing startups like Airbnb, Upworthy, and Ge Read full article CONGRATS TO HOMEJOY ON ITS $38 MILLION FUNDING December 8, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Adora Cheung, co founder and CEO of Homejoy, is an old friend of ours here at Resolute. She ran product for LOLApps, a company I backed several years ago, and subsequently worked with me and the great folks at Pier 38 and Dogpatch Labs.So when I heard last fall that she was doing a new startup with Read full article JUMPING ONTO THE ANGELLIST PLAYING FIELD September 25, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Like everybody else in the business, I've been following the Angel List Syndicates story closely and giving a lot of thought to what it means for the early stage ecosystem. I don't think any of us really know. But my gut is that it is a big deal. Venture Capital has been going through a pretty maj Read full article BOARD MEETINGS ARE A WASTE OF TIME AT THE SEED STAGE October 2, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Satya Patel recently wrote a post on “The Value of a Board at the Seed Stage.”I love the Homebrew guys and would be thrilled to have them as a co-investor in my deals, but I must disagree with Satya’s argument.My view is that board meetings actually are a bad idea at the seed stage, particularly whe Read full article HAPPIER NAMED TOP 50 APP OF 2013 September 20, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Congrats to the Happier Team, whose app was just named by Time as one of the top 50 apps in 2013.In Time's words:You don’t have to go too far on any social network to find daily doses of negativity. New app Happier offers up a refreshing palate-cleansing: It’s a social network for good stuff. Upload Read full article CALLING ALL ANGELLIST SYNDICATORS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK October 1, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Amidst the sound and fury spurred by AngleList's announcement of its new Syndicate, commentators missed an important reality: Angel Syndicators may now have the financial wherewithal to lead financings, but in most instances they lack the time, interest and/or experience to actually do the work of Read full article THE PRECISE TEST FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER PRODUCT-MARKET FIT October 3, 2013 by Mike Hirshland When your 15 year old's classmate, or your 83 year old Mom's friend, randomly falls in love with your app or service.And so congrats to Resolute-backed Happier: My 15 yr old daughter emailed me today. Which, in and of itself, is a minor miracle. One of her classes was discussing iPhone apps and as Read full article POLARIS PASSES A $75 MILLION WORDPRESS BATON TO TIGER GLOBAL September 18, 2013 by Mike Hirshland In 2005 I was introduced to a kid who had just dropped out of college in Texas and moved to San Francisco to pursue his dream of building an open source software platform. The kid was Matt Mullenweg, and the software platform was WordPress.These were the very early days of the social web, and I cer Read full article "THIS FEELS FUCKING INSANELY AWESOME" February 21, 2013 by Mike Hirshland I received an email from one of my founders the other night that made me feel like a proud daddy. No, it wasn't that they IPO'd, or raised $20 million, or closed a big deal, or got TechCrunch to wax poetic about how awesome they are. It was relating to me the support she was getting from fellow Re Read full article BACKING SUNRISE June 4, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Founders (and the investors who back them) face the perennial challenge how to build barriers that will keep competitors at bay. Historically, tech VCs have focused on projects solving difficult technology problems that won’t be replicated easily, quickly or cheaply.While certainly a viable strateg Read full article TIDEPOOL LAUNCHES! September 11, 2013 by Mike Hirshland Congrats to the team at Tidepool for their launch today at TechCrunch Disrupt!Tidepool is Building mobile applications for improving Productivity, Mindfulness and Resilience For use by consumers who are self-trackers and wellness adopters To maximize productivity and quality of life Through fun Read full article SEEING DIFFERENT PROBLEMS September 22, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Paul Graham just wrote a great post called Startup = Growth. Few would disagree with his premise -- that the essence of a startup is fast growth.Graham goes on to explain what I'd call the "YC Theory of Startup," whereby a founder's goal is to grow a certain percentage (say, 5%) per week, from the Read full article "ANCHOR INVESTORS" OPEN DOORS January 21, 2013 by Mike Hirshland (reprinted from The Wall Street Journal).The single best thing you can do to raise an angel round is find the right anchor investor. Just like wolves and sharks, angels often travel in packs. There’s the Google diaspora, the Paypal mafia, YC alums, liquid Facebookers, the list goes on.Your challeng Read full article THE NEW PARADIGM FOR BRAND BUILDING AND THE STARTUP OPPORTUNITY IT CREATES October 19, 2012 by Mike Hirshland There is a great interview with Crispin, Porter + Bogusky CEO Andrew Keller on Think With Google. Here is a summary by way of some excerpted quotes:The digital age, and social media in particular, have changed the social contract between people and brands. The expectation of the relationship has be Read full article THE POST ACCELERATOR PHASE September 27, 2012 by Mike Hirshland I had a board meeting yesterday with a company that is now about 4 months out from completing an accelerator program, and over the course of the meeting it became clear to me that there is a pretty distinct transition for a team exiting an accelerator program and becoming a funded seed stage startup Read full article BACK TO THE WELL W @SETH AND DJZ September 12, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Big congrats to @Seth and the @DJZ team on their launch of DJZ, as covered today in The New York Times! I'm thrilled to be a part of the team here; and thrilled that this marks the 6th time in our brief history that Resolute is backing a founder we've worked with before.I've been a friend and fan o Read full article A GREAT DEMO DAY PITCH DOES NOT A MIGHT OAK MAKE August 20, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Yesterday I tweeted a phrase I came across that strikes me as great imagery for seed stage entrepreneurs:From small acorns might oaks grow.It is a long, long journey from a seed stage startup to, using the metaphor, a Mighty Oak, but I do believe it makes a difference to have the Mighty Oak ambition Read full article THE SIGN OF A GOOD COMPANY August 19, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Ben Horowitz had a characteristically great post last week, on GigaOm, called "A Good Place to Work."Lots of wisdom in there for entrepreneurs and operators, both as to why you should make your company a good place to work, and how.But, as an incurable people-collector, something else stuck with me. Read full article THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION August 16, 2012 by Mike Hirshland The other day I was talking with a potential investor in my fund, and in the course of the conversation I took a fairly strong position that was a little outside today's conventional wisdom. To which the potential investor said he really liked my conviction, which is something he looks for in fund Read full article CONTENT + COMMERCE = OPPORTUNITY August 16, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Today I read that Ben Lerer raised $13 million for Thrillist. Thrillist started as a newsletter for guys, but after acquiring JackThreads, it is now a really interesting content + commerce play.It's easy to see Thrillist and others as leveraging commerce to monetize an audience. But I prefer seeing Read full article THE PERFECT VC PITCH May 10, 2012 by Mike Hirshland Ok, sure, there obviously is no such thing as a perfect pitch, I'm just trying to get better at using titles that actually attract readers (I'm gonna do a summer internship at Business Insider to really master the art).But I just received a pitch deck that was so clearly a really good pitch that I w Read full article BLOCKBEACON - LOCAL LISTINGS GO REALTIME July 25, 2012 by Mike Hirshland A couple weeks ago Resolute-backed BlockBeacon launched its iPhone app. It’s a cool app. I like it because it gives me real time information I really want but can't easily find elsewhere. (Right now it’s only fully “live” in SoCal, but they’re getting to the ROW quickly).One of the awesome things a Read full article BRINGING SOME YOUNG BLOOD TO RESOLUTE April 16, 2012 by Mike Hirshland I’m thrilled to announce that Coder Dojo founder James Whelton will be joining Resolute .VC as our Hacker in Residence. At the age of 20, James has an impressive background across a broad range of tech, from computer hacking to iOS development to social platform data parsing and analysis. James also Read full article WHAT'S ON MY MIND October 7, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Weekly recap of the things I found myself thinking about this week.Of course the sadness that still reverberates over Steve Jobs' death. Reflecting on the irony that, just a few days before, my 9 year old asked me: "Dad, what are the times when something so important happened that you remember exac Read full article LOOSELY JOINED PEOPLE November 7, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Last week I posted a quote from the preface to David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and since then I've been thinking a lot about what Weinberger had to say. One of his more powerful themes is the notion that, just as the web originally was about connecting lots of "loosely joined" docum Read full article SMALL PIECES LOOSELY JOINED October 28, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Wow, even more true 10 years later:What the Web has done to documents it is doing to just about every institution it touches. The Web isn't primarily about replacing atoms with bits so that we can, for example, shop on line or make our supply chains more efficient. The Web isn't even simply empoweri Read full article TOUGH LOVE FROM KAREN: ETIQUETTE MATTERS TOO October 25, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Those of you who have worked with me over the last few years probably know my assistant, Karen Saunders, pretty well. She is the greatest. Best. Assistant. Ever. Simply putting up with me is enough for a medal of honor. But it's much more. The following lecture she gave me yesterday will give you a Read full article CULTURE MATTERS October 20, 2011 by Mike Hirshland After years of pontificating about startups (both here and in board meetings), now that I am starting my own little venture it's time for me to start eating my own dogfood. Which, I have to say, is pretty cool. I'm thinking in a whole new way about the enterprise of building a business.For some as y Read full article WORDS TO LIVE AND WORK BY October 4, 2011 by Mike Hirshland In his post explaining his decision to join CrunchFund, MG Siegler includes a great quote from Greylock's John Lilly:One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of school, is this: look around and figure out who you want to be on your team. Figure out the people aro Read full article MY STEVE JOBS ENCOUNTER October 6, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Steve Jobs did not like government lawyers much.Which, unfortunately, is exactly what I was when we met back in 1997. (That part is a long story I won't bore you with here). But I spent a couple hours with him back then. And he scared the hell out of me. During that period of my career I was used to Read full article BACKING YOUR DREAMS September 16, 2011 by Mike Hirshland So, the word leaked out yesterday. I was really touched by all the well wishes on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you all so much.At dinner with some of my favorite entrepreneurs I had the following exchange with Narendra Rocherolle, who, if you don't know, you should:N: So Mike, why are you doing thi Read full article BEST JOB TITLE EVER: "FOUNDER, CUSTOMER SUPPORT" September 23, 2011 by Mike Hirshland I've been playing around with some lightweight CRM offerings and last night signed up for Worketc. And today I got an email from Dan, who introduced himself as "as your go-to guy while you're getting started with WORKetc."Turns out, Dan is the founder of WORKetc. Dan goes on:"I bet you are now won Read full article L'SHANA TOVA -- CHANGES FOR THE NEW YEAR September 29, 2011 by Mike Hirshland This year has been one of pretty big changes for me on both the personal and professional front, which makes particularly apt the following New Years' wishes forwarded to me by my brother Bob, and which I would like to forward to my readers and followers:"The Hebrew word for year, 'shanah,' is based Read full article MY NEXT CHAPTER September 15, 2011 by Mike Hirshland Effective today, I will be leaving Polaris Venture Partners, and setting out to launch a new seed firm.While I am excited by the prospect of building something new, it is difficult to leave the partnership I have been part of for 12 years. I feel lucky to have had the chance to learn the venture bu Read full article X (formerly Twitter) icon LinkedIn icon Youtube icon Stay in touch Thanks for signing up! Sorry something went wrong. Try again. Resolute Ventures logo * About * Team * Companies * Community * News * Privacy & Cookies Policy © 2024 Resolute Ventures. All rights reserved.