DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital
Description
Derek Steer is the cofounder and CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. His company, Mode Analytics has raised over $83 million from 13 top-tier investors which include Valor Equity Partners, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Foundation Capital, and Switch Ventures, to name a few.
In this episode you will learn:
* What it takes to raise money during a crisis
* Derek’s top advice for new entrepreneurs
* The one thing you can do to save a year in building your startup
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For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Derek Steer:
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.
Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek Steer was an early member of Yammer’s Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
Connect with Derek Steer:
* Linkedin
* Crunchbase
* Twitter
* Instagram
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers show. Today we have an interesting founder. I think that we’re going to learn a lot. He’s born and raised in San Francisco. Typically, people that you speak with have ended up in San Francisco somehow, but he’s one-of-a-kind that has been there since the beginning. So without further ado, let’s welcome our guest today. Derek Steer, welcome to the show.
Derek Steer: Hi, Alejandro. Thanks for having me. I’m excited.
Alejandro: So, how was life growing up in San Francisco?
In this episode you will learn:
* What it takes to raise money during a crisis
* Derek’s top advice for new entrepreneurs
* The one thing you can do to save a year in building your startup
SUBSCRIBE ON:
For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Derek Steer:
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.
Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek Steer was an early member of Yammer’s Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
Connect with Derek Steer:
* Crunchbase
* * *
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers show. Today we have an interesting founder. I think that we’re going to learn a lot. He’s born and raised in San Francisco. Typically, people that you speak with have ended up in San Francisco somehow, but he’s one-of-a-kind that has been there since the beginning. So without further ado, let’s welcome our guest today. Derek Steer, welcome to the show.
Derek Steer: Hi, Alejandro. Thanks for having me. I’m excited.
Alejandro: So, how was life growing up in San Francisco?