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AI-powered Beauty Insights Platform Daash Intelligence Raises $5.5 Million Seed Investment. The start-up offers predictive commerce insights meant to inform product development, launch forecasting and competitive strategies.

Five Traits that Define Success

If I were to distill my learnings from having hired and worked with thousands of leaders, I would identify five traits that separated the...

Sid Mookerji

Jun 3, 20212 min read

Spotting The Next Amazon

A common refrain in startup investing is that the idea a company starts out with very rarely ends up as the product that makes them...

Shaunish Mookerji

May 6, 20212 min read

Core Values

One of the first things we did as a team when I joined the fund at the start of 2020 was define our core values. We were prepared for...

Ross Kimbel

Apr 21, 20212 min read

How Marketplaces are Empowering Future Designers, Creatives, and Manufacturers

Most of my career has focused on building, implementing, and sourcing software. So when I started business school in 2019, I wanted to...

Stefanie Karwoski

Apr 5, 20212 min read

Three Ways To Avoid Burnout

As the CEO of SPI, I had the privilege of leading a group of very smart technical professionals. They made game-changing contributions in...

Sid Mookerji

Mar 30, 20212 min read

Specialization

In the earliest human civilizations, people were generalists. If you wanted to survive, you had to know how to do everything, from...

Shaunish Mookerji

Mar 15, 20213 min read

A Simple Framework to Drive Better Results

At Silicon Road, we are big believers in designing systems that scale. It's not just because we think in systems (we do), we have to do...

Ross Kimbel

Feb 22, 20212 min read

Where is the in-store experience headed?

2020 was the year of extreme hypergrowth for ecommerce. It also saw the decline of several struggling retailers such as Lord & Taylor,...

Stefanie Karwoski

Feb 11, 20212 min read

Breaking In Your New Leather Shoes

Breaking in new leather shoes is a painful process. You have to wear chunky socks, use other assorted pain reduction techniques including...

Sid Mookerji

Feb 2, 20212 min read

Cybersecurity Insurance

Last October, The North Face joined the long list of brands and retailers that have been hacked. In fact, hackers are increasingly...

Shaunish Mookerji

Jan 21, 20212 min read

3 Reasons Why 2020 Was A Year of Opportunity for Some Funds

It goes without saying that 2020 was a year like no other. It was a year where many people globally experienced loss and suffering that...

Ross Kimbel

Jan 17, 20214 min read

The World of Commerce in 2021

As we waltz into a new year after an unusual 2020 by all measures, I wanted to first wish you a 2021 filled with happiness, health, and...

Sid Mookerji

Jan 1, 20212 min read

Community

On December 10th, Silicon Road hosted our year-end social event for investors, startups, and friends of the fund, which took the form of...

Shaunish Mookerji

Dec 21, 20203 min read

The Power of Cohort Analysis

One of the more insightful frameworks for a company to measure user or customer behavior over time is a cohort analysis. In the most...

Ross Kimbel

Dec 8, 20202 min read

The Future of Last Mile Logistics

Thanksgiving is such a magical time, isn’t it? It is a time to give thanks for all our blessings but also the beginning of a countdown to...

Sid Mookerji

Nov 29, 20202 min read

Thinking Like A Startup

Every day, I am privileged to speak to founders of hyper-growth startups. Each one of them is building a successful company by doing...

Shaunish Mookerji

Nov 19, 20202 min read

Wripple Poised to be the Next Great Marketplace in the Great Unbundling

Throughout history, commerce has occurred through marketplaces. Even before modern digital technologies and the internet, a marketplace...

Ross Kimbel

Nov 15, 20202 min read

Unlocking Access Beyond Capital for Early-Stage Startups

I recently had the opportunity to attend the All Raise VC Summit, an annual gathering of women in venture capital and investing. This...

Stefanie Karwoski

Nov 5, 20202 min read

Retail Post Election 2020: Three Things To Look For

Where did the year go? November 3rd, 2020 is nearly here. It will be a day of reckoning for many politicians, but also has deep fiscal...

Sid Mookerji

Oct 28, 20202 min read

Re-commerce Goes Mainstream And Many Brands are Embracing It

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Stefanie Karwoski

Oct 21, 20201 min read

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