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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. And covered we did.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. in History from UCLA.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. in History from UCLA.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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