Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 31, 2012

The emergence of companies like Getaround, Airbnb and even Yelp are examples of ways that we as consumers are using technology to get more comfortable doing everything from sharing recommendations to letting someone rent our car for a few hours. Another fun thing to ponder is how social reputation systems might replace existing systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In his maiden post on the topic he wrote, “After product-market fit and an efficient conversion process, the next critical step is finding scalable, repeatable and sustainable ways to grow the business. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right. Growth hacking is a mentality that a company needs to be committed to.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Features should not be the topic of any discussion with users, but rather, truly listening to the issues/problems that brought them to your product in the first place, and their expectations against their experience-that should be the essence of these conversations Yoav Oren and Matan Guttman, Co-founders of Zoog (a B2C mobile app).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. The topic of FourSquare came up. Even if you’re right – there’s something you may be missing. I was at a dinner about a year ago with a few VCs and startup founders.

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View from Seed

JULY 22, 2020

We were talking about this today and realized that I’ve never written a blog post on the topic, although I’ve said it countless times over the years. One phrase that I often say is that “traction creates opportunity”. So here we go. Early stage companies often debate what they ought to be prioritizing in the early days. Do you focus on team?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

The sponsoring partner will be given feedback on what some partners don’t like about the team, the market, the product, the competition or the deal terms and that partner may have to answer back on those topics at the next partner meeting or maybe even just later that day (depending on time sensitivity of the deal).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And when her assets were tapped she rented out her bedroom and even her couch on Airbnb to afford her year-one operations. Tracy started renting out her bedroom on Airbnb. She did the math and realized that she could bring in more money through Airbnb than she could by having a roommate. More on that later. That may soon change.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Blablacar is to cars what Airbnb is to houses: a way for people to monetise their unused assets on one hand and to consume differently on the other hand. This explains the success of companies like Netflix or Zipcar, but like Airbnb, Blablacar is pushing the concept further with the assets being owned by the consumer instead of the company.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

While my interest in this topic is already obvious, I was more eager than usual to attend due to Google’s recent diversity memo, and to learn more about other biases that are not always immediately thought of. He thinks about hiring as a project and focuses on challenging recruiters to change the age-old way of hiring a team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This field is known as “ Behavioral Psychology “ One of the world’s foremost experts on this particular topic is Jonah Berger , a pretty smart guy from Standford who wrote what’s probably the best book on the topic. If hotels weren’t so expensive, people wouldn’t necessarily use Airbnb.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The business I'm starting next year is AIRBNB. Thanks to Robert Gate, Archery Topic ! #10- I should, however, keep in mind that these things should be provided at a reasonable price. Thanks to Max Shak, survivalgearshack ! #3- Photo Credit: Lynne Martin. I find this home-based business idea dependable and a solid stream of income.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

John Jantsch (01:21): So I've, I try to go like at least every other show without mentioning the word COVID, but unfortunately there's too many topics or too many interviews where it's relevant. So a good example is like Uber versus Airbnb. What, obviously that's a giant topic, but just the thumbnail sketch.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Higher Education Bubble Will Burst: People will wake up to the fact that all but a few (eg medical) university qualifications can be obtained online, for free, from the world’s best practitioners on those topics. Alternative education methods will emerge and gain more credibility.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Hot topics. So youve got the inside scoop on a story or topic that weve covered? Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Disrupt SF. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. .” next story » 4moms Raises $20 Million For Its Gadgetized Baby Gear.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. .”

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

First: it showed how these large language models, best called foundational models, can already produce amazing, creative, and useful content, even as there are a lot of areas under ongoing development, including issues of accuracy and factuality, a broad set of topics that fall under the title of safety, and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The best take on this topic is to read directly what Greg has to say about it. But my take is this: We know that B2C crowdsourcing of tasks and products has started to play a transformative role in our economy from everything from Uber to Airbnb to TaskRabbit to DogVacay. Or what TechCrunch thinks.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Are there important topics that you’re neglecting? Hotjar , Nike , Airbnb , and Ben & Jerry’s are all examples of brands that have acted on their brand purpose and used social media to react to important matters and educate their audiences. How many followers or likes do they have? How often do they post? What do they talk about?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In order to have the great companies we now know today: Uber, DropBox, Airbnb, SnapChat, Twitter, Facebook and so forth we first needed the “Internet rails” beneath us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. If you’re a clear “market winner” like Stripe, Robinhood or Airbnb. We Talked About VC Reserve Strategies This is an “inside baseball” topic for VCs. if you listen you’ll pick up much more than my quick notes below).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Why give more airtime to someone whose peak of influence, and perhaps success, is clearly behind him--especially to talk about topics where he clearly isn''t adding value to the conversation. Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. That''s less than 10%.

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Haystack

AUGUST 31, 2018

I had been meaning for weeks to write a longer post on scooters, as an attempt to collect my thoughts on the topic, specifically around the market size, unit economics, and defensibility– but life got in the way. I believe it is important to consider the time in which Uber and Airbnb grew their networks.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Check out Mashable Explore , a new way to discover information on your favorite Mashable topics. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Brenton Gieser , Be Social Change. Interested in more Startup resources?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Because according to the majority of blog posts, it’s all about the “growth hacks,” the one-off silver bullets that propel companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Facebook to massive growth: Here’s a beautiful example of the silliness from a SEJ article : Image Source. This example is really the opposite of what growth marketing is about.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Rarity – The topic is not something that people see all the time. If it can’t offer all of these things, consider a different topic. Airbnb has had huge success with this approach through their Airbnb Stories YouTube channel. There are a lot of groups on Facebook dedicated to a huge variety of topics.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Olas, Facebooks and Airbnbs of the world have shown us how start-ups can become unicorns without investing in actual assets. A panel discussion was conducted on this topic and esteemed guests of the event discussed how budding entrepreneurs can also take advantage of network effects and create valuable businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of Silicon Valley innovation and the history (and future) of startup funding, to testing your hypothesis, pivoting, and optimizing for happiness. Lecture topic : Innovation. Lecture topic : Startup Funding - Super Angels versus VCs. Take ownership of your innovation.".

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Every business is made up of experts on a range of topics. They’ve partnered with Airbnb to host online readings of their children’s book, “What Would Fashion Look Like If It Included All Of Us,” building an extraordinary connection between the brand and the community they serve. Your brand has more to offer than just your products.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2020

Our friendship began as many do – in a bar a few days after I’d been told that Lenny (a) just left airbnb and (b) was smart. Upon receiving the tip I clicked over to his Twitter profile where I saw that indeed he had left airbnb and that he was clearly super duper smart because he already followed me. A DM-slide and poof!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2014

Startups using celebrities is such a hot topic these days that Gary Vaynerchuck , noted author and entrepreneur, has coined a new term “star-ups” for the phenomenon. He''s poured $100 million into companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Foursquare. Make the endorsement part of a bigger campaign.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

5G is a hot topic. Such apps as Uber, Postmates, or Airbnb are crazy popular and are installed on millions of devices all over the world. , adaptive phone battery, and many more. There’s no doubt, in the nearest future the number of ways AI and ML will penetrate the app development industry will increase severalfold.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data from platforms like Shopify, Airbnb, Spotify, Facebook, YouTube, or any other platform that gives a lender line-of-site on a digital business’s future revenue. Thanks to Jonathan Birnbaum for help in researching this topic. . I am not a lawyer. Thanks to the experts quoted for their thoughtful feedback.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 24, 2018

A decade after Airbnb and Uber were founded, into the first decade of seeing Facebook and Amazon shoot past $500B market caps, society-at-large now knows how great the stakes are. The truth is that this is a complex topic and I don’t want to offend someone who at least carefully reads this.

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Brandanew

JULY 22, 2015

The storylines are always around the most trending topics amongst their audience. Always promoting their values instead of their services, Airbnb is known for coming up with some of the most relatable storylines for their advertisements. Note: Always try and keep things relevant; even your advertisement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. This is a topic that used to be considered arcane, and now the whole world wants to learn more about, and we all have a personal stake in understanding.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 3, 2020

My plan was to write the next book in Italy this July (we were planning to take our family and live in an AirBnB in Verona) but since that plan is obviously off, I’m going to write book #2 while locked up at the house in quarantine mode. Please tell me in the comments below the topics you think I should take on in my next book!

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Brian Chesky , a brilliant entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”

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