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EM Group Chat #136: Building & Scaling OfferUp With Nick Huzar

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #136 (7/25) with Nick Huzar, who's the Founder & former CEO of OfferUp. OfferUp is the largest mobile marketplace in the US for buying & selling items from others nearby. They've also raised over $380M+ in venture capital from top investors like a16z, Coatue Management, GGV Capital, and more. 0:06 Intro 1:17 Nick's background 3:34 The founding story for OfferUp 9:10 How OfferUp solved for the cold start problem & constrained initial markets 14:48 How OfferUp initially managed categories 16:09 An overview of OfferUp as the leading marketplace for buying & selling items…

The Evolution of Seattle's Venture Ecosystem with Bill McAleer, Emer Dooley & T.A. McCann

This panel takes the audience on a journey from Seattle's Venture Ecosystem in the 90s to 2023 and beyond, from the lens of highly accomplished investors & operators including Bill McAleer, founding partner at Voyager Capital; Emer Dooley, Site Lead at Creative Destruction Lab Seattle and T.A. McCann, Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs. The panel was moderated by Ryan McRobert, Partner at Fenwick. Seattle Venture Day was hosted on July 12th, 2023 by OneSixOne Ventures, a preseed VC firm investing in enterprise SaaS and GovTech startups. The event was made possible with support from Fenwick, SVB, WTIA and Madrona…

Pacific Northwest Life Sciences Update: Talus Bioscience Raises $9.75M, Kineta Merges with Yumanity, UW’s David Baker Launches Charm Therapeutics

Recent Pacific Northwest life sciences news includes Talus Bioscience raising $9.75 million, Kineta going public via merger with Yumanity, and UW's David Baker launching Charm Therapeutics. Key partnerships involve TwinStrand and Singular Genomics developing rare gene variant tests, and Umoja Biopharma partnering with TreeFrog Therapeutics for stem cell therapies.

Pack Ventures launches Seattle syndicate to back UW-linked startups, pledges 10% of future profits to University of Washington

Pack Ventures, a new early-stage Seattle VC, will invest $100K–$200K checks in startups tied to the University of Washington and has already backed five companies including Jeeva Wireless, Talus.bio and Monod Bio; the firm will return 10% of individual future profits to UW. The syndicate includes more than 35 founding investors from the Seattle VC and entrepreneur community and will target AI, robotics, computational biology, enterprise software and other high-growth areas.

Creative Destruction Lab Partners with University of Washington’s Foster School to Launch CDL-Seattle

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit supporting scalable, seed-stage science and technology startups, is partnering with the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business to establish CDL-Seattle.

Creative Destruction Lab to launch nine-month, equity-free Seattle accelerator with Microsoft and UW for 20–25 computational health startups this November

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is launching a Seattle hub this November at the University of Washington to run a nine-month, equity-free accelerator for 20–25 computational health startups in partnership with Microsoft and UW’s business, engineering, and computer science schools; UW students can shadow the program. The program is funded by founding members, enforces objective milestones with the possibility of booting nonperforming companies, and stems from UW’s Innovation Roundtable efforts led by Emer Dooley and others.

Nick Huzar (OfferUp): How to Drive Engagement by Building Community

How to Drive Engagement by Building Community - Nick Huzar, CEO, OfferUp The Marketplace Conference Online May 2020 The Marketplace Conference is a semi-annual event focused on all things marketplaces & network effects, uniting marketplace entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts. It provides a platform for exchanging knowhow and best practices and attracts entrepreneurs and investors of all stages. Website: https://www.marketplaceconf.com/ Sign-up for our monthly newsletter 'The Marketplace Snippet', a highly curated selection of content on all things marketplaces & network effects: https://bit.ly/38Xt3Oi

Nick Huzar

OfferUp’s CEO, Nick Huzar, joins us to talk about the evolution of the largest mobile marketplace in the U.S. OfferUp, which he started in 2011 and has raised $261 million in funding so far. They have a strong focus on safety and live and breathe their product (their 70,000 square foot office is furnished entirely by furniture bought locally on OfferUp)! Nick discusses learning work ethic from his parents at a young age, how he’s raising his kids to have grit and how his “word is everything.” He also shares how he manages the difficult balance of patience and pushing…

Nick Huzar, CEO of OfferUp

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar: Knowing When to Make the Startup Leap - GeekWire Startup Day 2016

Nick Huzar, the Co-founder and CEO of OfferUp, talks about his startup journey including successes and failures along the way at GeekWire Startup Day in Bellevue, Washington.

Nick Huzar (OfferUp) at Startup Grind Seattle

Nick Huzar is co-founder and CEO of OfferUp with a mission to create the simplest and safest marketplace to buy and sell locally. OfferUp has grown rapidly to become the largest peer to peer mobile marketplace in the country. Previously, Nick was co-founder and CTO of Konnects, Inc, an early social networking startup. There he designed the original platform and directly managed the engineering and design teams in addition to his daily duties as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. With Nick’s leadership, Konnects growth exploded growing from 1,500 members to over 1 million within 18 months. Nick oversaw the hiring…