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Ep039 – Nick Crocker (Venture Partner – Blackbird Ventures) on people, culture and products












March 7, 2017


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In episode 39 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, we did a live podcast interview with Nick Crocker, the Melbourne Venture Partner of Blackbird Ventures.

Nick was the founder of We are Hunted, a digital music chart which sold to Twitter in 2012. He then co-founded Sessions, a digital health coaching program, which sold to MyFitnessPal 2 years later. After MyFitnessPal was acquired by Under Armour for $475M, he went on to lead their Product Strategy and Operations in San Francisco.
Nick is now back in Australia and is the Melbourne Partner at Blackbird Ventures, a $230M Venture Capital firm that counts companies such as Canva, Red Bubble, Shoes of Prey, Culture Amp and Edrolo as part of it’s portfolio and runs the Startmate Accelerator program.
In this interview we talk about the importance of proving your business on a small scale, what the best companies focus on, what to do when you first meet with an investor and the importance of culture and values in building a successful company.
Audience questions:
1. What does a company like Blackbird look for in startups?
2. What are some of the biggest mistakes that people make when they are pitching?
3. Do we miss founders who don’t match the typical startup founder profile?
4. What does Startmate bring to Melbourne?
5. How important are valuations when making investment decisions?
Show notes:
Musicadium
The 9 ways to ride the digital music age
We are Hunted
Boxee
Zach Klein
Vimeo
College Humour
CabinPorn authored by Zach Klein Steven Leckart
Spark Capital
Union Square Ventures
Sessions
MyFitnessPal
Under Armour
Blackbird Ventures
Startmate
Niki Scevak
Rick Baker
Rock Health
Ben Hartney
Albert Lee
Mike Lee
Culture Amp
Shoes of Prey
What Blackbird is Looking for in 2017
Mike Cannon Brookes
Safety Culture
Michael Fox
Zoox
Andrew Denver
Didier Elzinga
Atlassian
Melanie Perkins
Cliff Obrecht
Canva
Matta (Matt Allen)
Startup Playbook TV is now on Youtube!!!
Australian Podcast Awards – Voting
Feedback/ connect/ say hello: 
[email protected]
@playbookstartup (Twitter)
@rohitbhargava7 (Twitter – Rohit)
Rohit Bhargava (LinkedIn)




Credits:
Intro music credit to Bensound
A big thank you to Matt Allen and the team at Teamsquare for hosting The Startup Playbook Live session.




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