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Tweet By Dan Levitan, co-founder of Maveron Considered one of the greatest investors of all time, Peter Lynch had a simple investment principle - “invest in what you know.” This straightforward investment philosophy helped him find good undervalued consumer-oriented stocks and achieve an annual average return of 29 percent while managing the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, which grew from [ READ MORE ]
Tweet Congratulations to Ryan Caldbeck and Rory Eakin, the co-founders of CircleUp, for closing new funding of $7.5 million led by Union Square Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from Maveron. Rather than shying away from what some consider to be competition, we were the first institutional investors to invest in CircleUp and embrace the [ READ MORE ]
Tweet By Rebecca Kaden, Maveron Associate Last week, as the New York Times labeled the food industry “the next big thing in tech,” Maveron announced its latest seed investment, Panna, a young company already making big moves in transforming the way we follow recipes at home. Launched by media industry veteran and cooking enthusiast, [ READ MORE ]
Tweet By Jason Stoffer, Partner at Maveron The most recent innovators in education have been companies such as Udacity, EdX and Coursera, which offer free massive open online courses (MOOCs) from top tier university professors to students globally. MOOCs have massive potential and hold the promise of disrupting the traditional university experience by offering [ READ MORE ]
Tweet Already, 2013’s been marked as the enterprise revolution. Angel investors and venture capitalists, many of whom have spent recent years dabbling in consumer investing, are turning to enterprise as the better investment decision and the focus of the next great wave of innovation. At Maveron, we’re happy to wish them well on their [ READ MORE ]
Tweet By Dan Levitan, Maveron co-founder In my 30 years working with consumer companies, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the world’s most respected entrepreneurs who have created enduring consumer businesses. During that time, whether it was Starbucks, eBay or hopefully the next billion-dollar brand zulily, I have learned that when a [ READ MORE ]
Tweet Author Jonah Berger talks to entrepreneurs at last week’s Maveron conference about his latest book, Contagious – Why Things Catch On By Jason Stoffer, Partner of Maveron The Harlem Shake is yet another cultural phenomenon that has hit the internet racking up more than 700 million views around the world in just one [ READ MORE ]
Tweet By Jason Stoffer, Maveron Partner We’re excited to have Kristen Hamilton join Maveron as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Education is undergoing fundamental changes but it’s hard to figure out how these tectonic shifts will open opportunities to create billion dollar brands. Doing so requires entrepreneurs with one foot in education – with enough expertise [ READ MORE ]
Tweet By Jason Stoffer, Maveron, Partner Beauty is a $160 billion offline category, which has experienced virtually no share shift online. So when we first invested in Julep in 2011, we were excited about the potential to build the first great vertically integrated online-first beauty brand. Since our first seed investment, Julep CEO Jane [ READ MORE ]
Tweet Meet the Superheroes of Maveron: At Maveron, we don’t invest in companies. We invest in people. We look for the most innovative entrepreneurs, the most dedicated and focused visionaries who won’t take no for an answer. To us our CEOs and their teams are the superheroes[ READ MORE ]
