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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

To address these issues, we designed Andreessen Horowitz’s network to be firm-wide , dead simple to access and comprehensive —supported by operating partners who work full-time to develop and manage each branch of the network. We’ve had nearly 400 interactions with media on behalf of our portfolio companies.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Secondly, developers are more productive. Third, LinkedIn—there are now 2.1

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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