Lightspeed Venture Partners
APRIL 12, 2016
Since then, as a team, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest behind the vision of the founders of some tremendous consumer companies across messaging, social media, e-commerce, Internet of Things, marketplaces and gaming. But I was the first person to solely focus on consumer investing. As a team, the next ten will be even better.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. It has been a rocket ship from there.
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The Next Web
MARCH 6, 2014
Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co. Young Entrepreneur Council'
The Next Web
MARCH 24, 2013
Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Christian Jurinka is Chief Engagement Officer and Co-founder of Attack! Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s' Marketing , a multi-channel lifestyle agency specializing in experiential and promotional services. Revel in the in-between. Image credit: Thinkstock.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 15, 2011
While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder. Never Minimize the Value of Your Co-Founder.
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