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Introducing “Billion-Dollar B2B”: The New Revenue and Valuation Paradigm for…
More than half a decade ago, my Battery Ventures partner Neeraj Agrawal penned a widely…
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Today’s Hot Consumer Marketplace IPOs Prove The Power Of Efficient…
Consumer marketplaces are undeniably hot right now. Since December, around $150 billion in equity value…
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How Smart Hospitality-Tech Companies Navigated the Pandemic by Riding a…
It’s no secret the pandemic decimated areas of the hospitality industry—think hotels, clubs, gyms and…
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We Used to Go to Work
We used to go to work. We used to spend 9.5 full days of our…
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Stop Coding in the Dark – and Bring Data-Driven Insights…
Over the last decade, almost every function in the enterprise has seen an uplift in…
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Taking the Hassle Out of Managing Rental Properties—With Tech
In 2020, bedrooms converted into offices, kitchen tables doubled as homework stations and living rooms…
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Software 2021: The Rise of the Cloud
Software-company valuations are in the stratosphere these days. The median valuation for a public software-as-a-service…
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The Secret To Long-Term Consumer-Tech Success: Subscription Pricing
Recently Warner Bros. made front-page news with its decision to release all its 2021 movies…
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Github Likes and Downloads Are Great, But Do They Make…
Selling software today is about maximizing the distribution potential of a product. MongoDB pioneered this…
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More than Sneakers: Lessons From StockX in Empathy, Communications and…
This season of the Powered by Battery podcast features portfolio executives representing companies from various…
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End-to-End Operators: The Next-Generation Consumer Businesses
At Battery, a central part of our consumer-investing practice involves tracking the evolution of where…
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Applying AI and Automation to a Surprisingly Unaddressed Security Function
In the cybersecurity market, we’ve seen fairly dramatic innovation over the past decade related to…