Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

I was an intern at a then 30 person startup called General Magic (GM) while I was a student at Stanford Business School. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball. We are thrilled to see Nest have an opportunity to further accelerate its business as part of Google.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But I think what I thought was, as I said, there were 10,000 translation companies out there in 1992 when we started, but they were really companies that were started and run by translators who were enormously talented, but they were busy doing the translation work, so they couldn't scale their companies. We didn't have the big name.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old. Suddenly, Charlie and I were having peer discussions about our respective consulting businesses. As with my relationship with Len, I feel that my relationship with Charlie is a peer relationship today.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Lane departure warning –> first deployed by Mitsubishi in 1992 and broadly available in early 2000s from Japanese manufactuerers.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

However, the ex-COO of Indian wireless carrier Tata TeleServices , presenting at Axis Tel Aviv this week, has a decidely commercial objective- finding Israeli startups for investment. Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

Toronto’s Peter Tassiopoulos has spent pretty much his entire career both advising startup businesses on management, strategy and funding and also applying his knowledge, expertise and vision to lead businesses on the path to becoming innovative powerhouses. Peter Tassiopoulos has focused on finance, technology and startups since 1992.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. VC funding gets you startup capital and a chance. But if you have what it takes to start a startup you should have sufficient vision not to need this crutch.&# Myth #1: I need to get VC funding to make my company successful.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we talked to Mr. Jeff Kubas. We’ve been a family-owned business since 1992. TSM: And what characteristics do you have that particularly contributed to your ability to jump from a startup success to a scale up success? Jeff Kubas, Vertex Resource Group CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2020

It’s followed by a comment by Lawrence Wright, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and author of the incredible and timely book The End of October. As I worked on The Startup Community Way and got my mind into how complex systems work, I concluded that change has to come from the bottom up, not the top down.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

I was involved in the early years (1992 – 1996) as a judge and funded a number of companies that went through the MIT $100K (which was called the MIT $10K at the time.) Over a decade ago, Brad Bernthal and Phil Weiser were putting real energy into Boulder Startup Community. Bernthal and Jason grabbed this and ran with it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For those of us a bit older we distinctly remember the overwhelming force and brutality used against Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992. Startup Lessons' We know about t he recent killing of unarmed African American, Michael Brown , in Ferguson. It is important. ** Photo Credit Robert Stolarik for The New York Times.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

He’s been a professor at CU Boulder since 1980 and was the chairman of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department from 1988 to 1992. So – when you think of the evolution of the Boulder startup community around life sciences, Larry has been involved since the beginning.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Think of James Carville’s slogan for Clinton in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” You need to rattle off why you rock in 60 seconds or less and have a group of strangers undertand what you do. Create visual metaphors that stick in people’s minds and are easily repeated.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

This book was such a great hit when it was released in 1992 that it inspired a film adaptation directed by famous Alfonso Cuaron. The post 5 Books that you should read during the quarantine appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The novel covers the story of the 2 dissenting factions that are fighting for power.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. Either way, if you don’t have a repeatable approach to improving your pricing, you are leaving money on the table.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

When I started my law firm in 1992, I did it to help others, to provide the assistance they needed when they were suffering from accidents that were outside of their control. Dan and I founded Mindspace because we recognized a fundamental problem in the current real estate model, especially for startups and growth companies.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Job Destruction bases its findings on the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), a U.S. GDP growth, the U.S. government dataset compiled by the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

There are lots of sites that allow you to find someone who wants to swap their home for yours, usually for short periods of time, but the grand-daddy of them is HomeExchange.com which started as a printed mailer and has been around since 1992. Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

From my purview at 500 Startups in talking with many seed investors – both angels and VCs – this is what I predict will happen in 2016. In polling several angel investors, the general feeling is that angels will also be parring back on their startup investments. In 2008, raising money as a startup was brutal.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

When I was where you are, 36 years ago (can ya believe it) I didn’t have a plan—but I did have an aspiration: I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups. Eventually I left Oracle, wanting to do another startup. Problem is, startups that have world changing potential are not that easy to find.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2014

Not that you’re not going to do it anyhow, just like I did, but, for the record, you know they say seven out of ten startups fail within three years, and that comes from research that was done. a California corporation, became an Oregon corporation in 1992, and the California corporation died in 1994. a California corporation.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) In a startup cash is king.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

Their legacy should be an inspiration for startups and small businesses everywhere—even in markets with well established leaders, smaller companies still have the opportunity to etch out a comfortable space. Although Michigan lost that 1992 championship game to Duke, The Fab Five surprised everyone by making it as far as they did.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2016

See Also: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Andre Agassi winning the Wimbledon Cup in 1992. When Andre Agassi won the Wimbledon Cup in 1992, he said, “I have already won Wimbledon at least 10,000 times before.” Here’s how to do it. Lessons entrepreneurs can learn from top Olympic athletes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. RIM, the Blackberry and its network had more inventions per square inch than most startups. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

San Francisco circa 1992 Every person reading this today, your journey is yours to own. She went back to school to complete her degree in a language foreign to her, she worked hard, she even got her MBA while raising two children, had a successful career, bought and sold many homes, and is happily retired. I love you, mom.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

They started with 100 Austin employees in 1992 and now have more than 6,000, making this the largest Apple site outside of Cupertino. The Demos There were 5 startups selected to present and we planned on each one getting about 5 minutes to introduce themselves and demo their app. In this case, there weren’t any big clues like that.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

 “Without startups,” writes Senior Fellow Tim Kane, there would be no net job growth in the US economy.    When President Clinton was elected in 1992, he convened a televised economic summit, bringing together the best minds on the economy and conducting, in effect, a “national teach-in” for the broader public. 

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Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

Having spent time on the campaign trail and covering presidential politics since 1992, it’s impossible not to be reading and watching everything. Currently Watching/Reading: Like much of the United States, I am caught up in the politics of our country. At the moment that gives me very little time for even creating a wish list.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Founded by David Turner and Bruce Duckworth in 1992, the firm now has three offices that are its “secret weapon,” according to the site. Turner Duckworth may be a division of Leo Burnett, but deserves to be called out for the quality and quantity of amazing work that it produces. Clients include Levis, Coca-Cola, Amazon, Metallica (!),

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Seeking CTO in Boston for Healthcare IT startup Popular Posts → Words of widsom from my youth Posted on September 6, 2009 by fnazeeri I’m preparing for a presentation in about a month at the University of Michigan.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Then in 1992 we moved to Eugene, Oregon. Too local. I’ve got a pots and kettles problem with this one, because my wife and I named our company Palo Alto Software, while we were in Palo Alto, California. Moving is easier than renaming. And ours, while a problem, could be a lot worse.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 18, 2012

GO essentially attempted to build an iPhone in 1992. The company raised more money than almost any other venture capital back startup in history and lost nearly all of it before selling itself for nearly nothing to AT&T in 1994. Now that probably doesn’t sound impressive.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 18, 2012

GO essentially attempted to build an iPhone in 1992. The company raised more money than almost any other venture capital back startup in history and lost nearly all of it before selling itself for nearly nothing to AT&T in 1994. Now that probably doesn’t sound impressive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2018

If you’re a startup or you’re a relatively young business, what I’ve seen is a lot of newer businesses maybe started by people in their 20s and 30s, they kind of get a lot of this already. It could’ve been made in 1992 by some graphic artist. Aren’t you? Todd Hockenberry: Exactly. Who is this about?

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