Lightspeed Venture Partners
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 19, 2019
They were used to distribute and view movies in cinemas for the next 100 years until digital film technology came along. In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. Today, almost all of them use digital technology.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.
ConversionXL
MAY 22, 2017
A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. Folksonomy.
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