Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. One of my bosses at CitySearch was John Pleasants , who was later CEO of Playdom , one of our portfolio companies, and sold it to Disney.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

1961- 1996. To succeed in the space, angels must have a high risk tolerance, a large bank account to weather losses, and most important, a diverse enough portfolio to handle losing money on most of your investments. Of course, investing in a diversified portfolio is a significant time commitment. approx 1999-07.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us through the Yahoo!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

Then I’ll help you start your own company, launch your own fund, or find a leadership role at Capital Factory or one of our portfolio companies. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then I’ll help you start your own company, launch your own fund, or find a leadership role at Capital Factory or one of our portfolio companies. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. The Kauffman Foundation’s most recent study of start-ups discovered that people aged 55 to 64 accounted for nearly 23% of new entrepreneurs in 2010, compared with under 15% in 1996.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Search —Back in 1996 during the time of the last browser UI innovations, searching the Internet was very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Our first LPs from 1996 were industry players who put us in business: Carrefour (the large European retailer), DLJ (the former investment bank) and a billionaire software exec. Stable Capital Amongst the hardest things to find when one raises a new fund is ability to have stable capital. We lived that first hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies). In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. couldn’t draw a salary). I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

These meetings are the equivalent of board meetings for our portfolio companies. My hope is that the following description of the meeting will help explain the information we request from startups and the pressures we sometimes find ourselves under which we then have to pass on to our portfolio companies. Portfolio update.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. boldstart iii announced portfolio from Ed Sim. Despite our firm being a little over 6 years old, our individual stories go further back. Sincerely, Team Boldstart. Ed Sim, Eliot Durbin, Jeff Leventhal.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . David Zhang. David Zhang.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Before her humorous book on grammar became an out-of-left-field bestseller, Truss freelanced for several British dailies and magazines, winning Columnist of the Year in 1996 for her contributions to Woman’s Journal , and reviewing books for The Listener and the Sunday Times. Lynne Truss. Stieg Larsson. million copies moved.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” Buffett doesn’t care about the latest buzz.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. If they are off, they will know it well in advance of any of our portfolio companies that are non-recurring in nature.

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Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In a recent survey conducted by the NVCA, portfolio company CEOs and VCs are feeling as good about the future as they ever have, with a stunning 86% of CEOs who plan to raise capital saying it will be the same or easier to do so as compared to last year. 2014 is shaping up to be the Year of Results.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Wow-what a past couple of days! First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events. When I started as a VC in 1996 and first met many of these entrepreneurs, it was clear that we were all starting from scratch. I never made it to the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, and you know how I feel about that label :-).

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). Note also that, for obvious reasons, I leave out any Flybridge Capital portfolio companies in my analysis. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts. First, let’s look at my home state of Massachusetts.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

In 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. But the problem is, if you’re trying to look like a luxury brand, you can’t use photos that are common, prevalent, or overused. It makes your brand look like those three adjectives – the opposite of your goal.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

It accurately points out that, when it comes to IPOs, many venture capitalists have mistakenly defaulted to choosing the large investment banks (such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse) as lead underwriters for their portfolio companies. The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

VC fund after VC fund can point to portfolio companies that are growing rapidly, taking market share, even achieving profitability in many cases, but have no place to go. When I was an executive at Open Market and did our IPO in 1996, we executed an $80 million IPO - at the time, that was considered mid-sized. 3) Minimal leverage.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.  .  I was therefore intrigued by Terry’s election and so talked to him the other day about his new role. billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market).

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