Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

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Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 141

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. December 2010. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force. Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook. Defining Small Business Innovation. Unleash It!

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

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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entrepreMusings

APRIL 29, 2010

So here’s a copy of what I wrote for the Austin Technology Incubator blog on the Idea to Product Competition I judged last weekend: Idea to Product Competition April 2010. I had the privilege of serving as a judge in the final rounds of the Idea to Product (I2P) competition this past Saturday, April 24, 2010.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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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. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009. — sound like its time for the Lean University.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

While running tech investments at the NYC Investment Fund from 2007-2010 I saw firsthand the benefits of cross industry collaboration as well as public/private partnerships. My view is that it’s time to harness the incredible enthusiasm and talent of these individuals to drive impact, locally in NYC as well as nationally and globally.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? When Google Analytics was Urchin theres a great story about how they needed a "Windows" version within three (weekend) days that the engineers said was "impossible." The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? October 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. In January 2010, I started my business at 21 with $500 in the bank and a ‘2for1 vodka’ hangover. The professor would write on something that resembled a whiteboard. You couldn’t read it. 17) Devastating Event.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Marc Andreessen, left, and Ben Horowitz in November 2010, "We have an agreement from investors to support us on creating a dual class structure," he said. Mr. Andreessen said he used to see things different.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. How about ABAPer? Elaine Kenny.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

MC Hammer’s search engine. His search engine, called WireDoo, is still not ready for a beta release, but Hammer says it has a “deep search” function that will make it better than Google by bringing up topics related to your keywords. Joe Jackson’s grills. These weren’t just any barbecue grills, though.

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