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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! Office Hours – Two or three partners post a sign-up sheet to meet with entrepreneurs. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs.

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What is the right age to found a company?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $1m in sales. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. Today, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is considered a major competitor of Starbucks, but it wasn’t always a mega coffee chain.

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Terry Time at the NVCA

Seeing Both Sides

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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