Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Social games overflow out of Facebook. Twitter continues to grow in usage, overtaking Myspace to become the third largest social network in the world.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Its main customers include China’s Huawei Technologies, Israel’s Ceragon Networks and Sweden’s Ericsson. Provigent is Broadcom’s eighth acquisition in Israel, and brings the value of its acquisitions here to $1 billion. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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