Kira McCroden @KiraMcCroden
Now: Comms VP @forerunnerVC Before: @modernfertility, other stuff San Francisco, CA Joined April 2010-
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If you thought you'd had enough of the "going direct" debate in startup comms, you thought wrong! I'll be sharing all my top secret PR tricks @StartupGrind with @cckarl @allisonbraley and @emiliecole on Weds: startupgrind.tech/conference/spe…
How many VCs does it take to realize that holding your phone up to the sun doesn't better help you see the eclipse?
The public narrative about consumer investing is detached from the potential. Last year, VC firms distanced themselves from the category and just 7% of seed capital went to consumer. But consumer company performance largely outpaces enterprise. My piece in @theinformation:
The public narrative about consumer investing is detached from the potential. Last year, VC firms distanced themselves from the category and just 7% of seed capital went to consumer. But consumer company performance largely outpaces enterprise. My piece in @theinformation:
Come for @kirstenagreen admitting to working with a clairvoyant, stay for the profound reflections on personal growth. In my totally unbiased view, this is one of @thegeneralistco's best yet: generalist.com/briefing/moder…
I finally wrote down my thoughts about Glossy, the book about Glossier (where I used to run comms). I have some pretty strong feelings about how Emily Weiss is portrayed, and even stronger ones about what the lessons are (and aren’t) for women founders. link.medium.com/B31qG8uqnEb
"We see an opportunity to enable the next generation of local entrepreneurs, where people want to work for themselves, have grit and determination, but don’t necessarily know what to do." @omal talks to @Cookie about our new thesis on Digital Franchises: techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/for…
We @ForerunnerVC see a new category emerging, the Digitally-Native Franchise — a play on the historic franchise model but reinvented with tech & AI driven platforms for individuals to grow their own businesses with structure & support to drive success. /1 forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…
We’re releasing something today that we’ve been working on quietly for years: the Brand Power Score, a new tool for any company to quantitatively measures its brand impact, a notoriously amorphous business asset: brandpowerscore.com
Caregivers account for $470B in unpaid work annually and are a ~75% women demographic. The impact on work is glaring: it’s the #2 reason why people exit the workforce after retirement. Our thesis on why this crisis is boiling over and what we can do: forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…
I wasn't expecting this but...@HarryStebbings' interview with @scooterbraun was a lot like Jonah Hill's Stutz movie, except much better🥹 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twe…
Love staying close to my at-home testing healthtech roots with @ForerunnerVC leading the $10m seed for @tally_health (yes...with Pedro Pascal) to open up longevity advancements that not just help slow aging, but reverse it (thank god!). fastcompany.com/90876849/tally…
It feels like an industry-defining opportunity to partner with for @tally_health and partner with @davidasinclair, @melanie_goldey & @whitneycasey to bring transformative longevity science to market and not just slow aging, but help reverse it. fastcompany.com/90876849/tally…
For years, the Googles/FBs of the world seeming untouchable. But, the stalwarts of the web are starting to crumble under their own weight & there's a window opening for innovators. The companies that disrupted Yahoo are starting to look a lot like Yahoo. forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…
We’re announcing today that @ForerunnerVC has led the seed round for JUMP, an ambitious approach to sports fandom and live events, led by a truly formidable team: @jordyleiser, @AROD and @MarcLore: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… /1
The longer the Valentine’s Day post the more they’ve cheated on each other
Good old fashioned core life fundamentals — the ultimate (and unexpected) consumer luxury in today's world. @ForerunnerVC's new $250M commitment: the traditional needs of non-traditional consumers. forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…
I wrote about Shoppy Shops 👀 @ForerunnerVC forerunnerventures.substack.com/p/the-cq-the-r…
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@KiraMcCroden @StartupGrind @cckarl @allisonbraley @emiliecole My 2c: go direct unless you can work with Kira! ❤️
@KiraMcCroden @StartupGrind @cckarl @allisonbraley @emiliecole this is a 🔥 lineup
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Ten totally reasonable perspectives on PR. I love that we’re all debating the value of PR. I spent the first chapter of my career in comms, and now I get to think about awareness building through the investor lens. But as with most things in life, I don’t believe an ideological…
Fun fact: during Box’s Series B we were in the midst of pivoting to the enterprise, with an untested freemium model, and running out of runway. The strategy was speculative. Every partner we pitched passed, but one associate (@mamoonha) fought to push the deal through, saving us.
All this debate over the value of PR is great PR for PR!