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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The partners here had made many great investments in consumer companies before then — companies that resulted in successful IPOs like BlueNile and eHealth in the late 90s. His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum!

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. leanstartup #w2e (via @blader ) Amen mcavalcanti : #w2e #leanstartup every technical problem is a usually a human problem. Excellent post.