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Rachel ten Brink - Founding Scentbird, investing in personal care, and how to grow online

Rachel ten Brink - Founding Scentbird, investing in personal care, and how to grow online

FromThe Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands


Rachel ten Brink - Founding Scentbird, investing in personal care, and how to grow online

FromThe Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jun 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our guest today is Rachel ten Brink, who is an investor, Founder, CMO, and Board member. She was one of the founders and the CMO of Scentbird, which is a beauty subscription services that let's you choose from over 700 top rated perfumes each month. She also was a Partner at Five Four Ventures. In this episode you'll learn about personal care trends that Rachel is paying attention to, how working in big CPG led her to become an entrepreneur, and what it was like going through Y-Combinator.You can follow her on Twitter @rtenbrink1.Questions that I ask Rachel:What attracted you to a career in consumer packaged goods?What were some of your learnings working in corporate personal care and food and beverage?What attracted you to entrepreneurship and innovation?Tell us a bit of the founding story of Scentbird?What was the opportunity that you saw?What was it like being in YC?How did you approach scaling the business?How did you think approach partnerships?After Scentbird, what attracted you to investing?What do you think alot of investors don't get when investing in consumer packaged goods?What's your investment strategy?What's your advice to founders with how they approach brand?Walk me through your due diligence process.How do you evaluate founders?What's one thing you would change about venture capital?What's one book that inspired you personally and one book that inspired you professionally?What's the best piece of advice that you've received?What's one piece of advice that you have for founders?
Released:
Jun 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place.Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subscription.Mike also interviews founders that are building some of the most disruptive consumer facing companies in the world. The conversation usually includes the insight the founder discovered, fundraising strategy, and the pitch.This podcast also includes bonus episodes. Each bonus episode dives into a particular subject that might not have to due with the fundraise or venture capital, but still would be helpful to founders. For example, a bonus episode on brand strategy or how to construct a board of directors. All bonus episodes will be clearly labeled.For all episodes, please visit www.theconsumervc.com. For updates, you can follow @mikegelb on Twitter.