Meet Sumay Parikh, Quake Principal and co-founder of The Unsexy Startup. “I put a lot of emphasis on rock bottom because I spent a lot of time there,” Sumay Parikh candidly acknowledges about a career that has spanned many ups and downs, hardships and lessons. Meet Sumay Parikh, a Principal here at Quake Capital and a serial…
Your 40s are the new 20s. Picture this: a group of bright, 20-something guys in hoodies hunched over their laptops in a poorly-lit garage in Silicon Valley, determined that they’re on the verge of creating the next Apple, Google, Facebook, or Airbnb, it doesn’t matter — they want to create the next big thing, the…
Watch out for these red flags. As a venture capital firm, we see thousands of entrepreneurs pitch us their visionary ideas through sleek slide decks and engaging presentations, the result of hundreds of hours of research, preparation, and execution. At the same time, however, we see startup after startup falling into similar patterns surrounding a…
Inside Quake’s metrics. What makes a great product? Founders may ask this question in an effort to understand why VCs choose to invest in certain startups. Instead of asking that, founders should be asking themselves if their product is a great product for investment. Many companies build stellar products, but not all of them are a…
Inside Quake’s metrics. When you’re pitching your startup to investors, you’ll probably get questions about traction. Traction measures the momentum of your product or service, and there are several metrics investors use to assess this. Quake invests in startups, not small businesses, and yes, there’s a difference. Startups have scalable products or services, a large…