Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Align on a mission statement that ensures all partners understand what you want to accomplish and what is outside of that core. A good business plan can reduce the hassle in many ways.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

Earlier last year, one of my partners told me that I’d developed a reputation with other VCs (presumably our partner funds ) that I hate crypto. It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. A few others said some versions of all governments are Ponzi schemes. I regularly hear to be patient.

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David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner. In addition, Michael Yavonditte , CEO of Hashable , is joining as a Venture Partner. Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio 122

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. It was Steve Blank – creator of the “customer development” process, founder of E.piphany (a high profile CRM company in the late 90’s that IPO’d in 1999), instructor at both Stanford and Berkeley and author of a well read blog.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. We were meeting with a potential business partner and Stuart had drafted an agreement between the two companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. And covered we did.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Its channel partners will sell Zilliant data science solutions. Zilliant, founded in 1999, makes price optimization and price management software. We’re very excited […] The post Zilliant Hires VP and Launches Channel Partner Program appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Partner with a defined contribution software provider. Partnering with a defined contribution provider can solve these challenges. Health insurance brokers partner with defined contribution software providers to increase their book of business. Losing group health insurance clients due to cost or participation requirements?

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Software Review Retention Employee Government 206

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 1999-07. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2007: Mixed Signs of Growth” Unknown. 1961- 1996.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. You will quickly see how crowded the space really is, how big a pain point you are solving and who potential partners are. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Software 70

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

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Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

how it will work, the financial terms, the types of customer leads expected from each partner, etc.). About Growthink Since 1999, Growthink's professional business plan writers and investment bankers have assisted more than 2,000 clients in launching and growing their businesses, and raising more than $1 billion in growth financing.

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Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. But there was tons of client demand in Europe for Internet projects and very few people with real experience and so my senior partner in the London office was talking about 3 or 4 projects he was considering me for in Europe. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I quit a very well paid job at Accenture with very little time remaining before making partner and took a risk of having no job security at all. My starting salary when I joined a VC fund as a partner at the age of 39 (and after 2 exits)? And it’s still less than I was paid at Accenture in 1999. I was investing in myself.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He currently has a 1999 strategy. partners to help bring his product to market. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I’ll always point out when I am.). I learned the domain lesson myself. He wanted to launch his next venture in financial services because it was a bigger industry.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. Unfortunately, Babson also found that the number of women involved in venture firms has dropped; as of 2014, it was 6 percent, compared to 10 percent in 1999. What about “leaning in”?

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The organization was incorporated in 1999 when a number of visionary companies realized the tremendous opportunity for compatible wireless networking connectivity around the world.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I’ve been lucky enough to see his career unfold and develop into what it is today, a flourishing coaching business called Inflection Point Partners that helps clients tremendously…and that also feeds Matt’s soul. Our idea was that he would do the same for us as we got our product in market.

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Framework Partner Developer Employee 62

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

Mainly, you should take this quiz BEFORE taking on a business partner, investor or key employee. A copy of it is below: As you can see from the questions, virtually all of the marriage partner questions apply to business partners. As many of you know, Jay Turo and I have been partners in Growthink since we launched in 1999.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Startups have to stay fast, flexible, and need valuable partners like crowdSPRING to allow us to focus on our core business. There is tremendous legal support behind our products, but people need to FEEL comfortable as well.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Security 105

thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

If there is an opportunity to bring in a syndicate partner that will add exponential value, it would be foolish to not include them. No matter how capable and experienced, an entrepreneur needs as many trusted, networked and experienced eyes and ears to help her navigate through this dynamic market.

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Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication Bandwidth 78

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

I interned at Mattel in the summer of 1999 so have some light first-person stories about how this company works. “ At the start of the “Barbie” process, Gerwig decided to write the screenplay with her partner, the writer-director Noah Baumbach. Mattel and Warner Bros. insisted on seeing a preview of the script’s contents.

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Jordan IP New York Founder 67

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999. Then, how has Kenya built its start-up ecosystem? Mbwana Alliy founded the Nairobi based Savannah Fund in 2012.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

In 1999 with a graphic design partner he opened E-Webstyle (now eWebResults ) a website design and development company. Christopher Burres is the owner of eWebResults. He has been an entrepreneur since 1991 when he started a Carbon Nano-Materials manufacturing company, SES Research.

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Small Business Marketing SEO Massachusetts 189

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2019

I’ve been involved in Return Path as an investor since 2001 when Return Path and Veripost merged as part of a funding done by Sutter Hill (Greg Sands), Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson), and Mobius Venture Capital (me). I wrote the very long story in a post titled Return Path Acquires Netcreations in 2004.

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Idaho New York Venture Capital Partner 91

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2016

Softbank (and Fred – via his new firm Flatiron Partners, which was partially funded by Softbank) invested. Jerry, again through Flatiron (he and Fred had become partners), was an investor in eShare. Welcome to 1999. I first met Jerry in a conference room at NetGenesis in Cambridge.

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Venture Capital Due Diligence HTML Australia 70

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. As founding CEO, I remember being quite excited to meet our financial backers and talk about how we could partner to build a great company. That question tortured me for months.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2020

you know that my company and main professional life’s work up to this point, Return Path, was a 1999 vintage email technology company that we sold last year. First, I’ve teamed up with a few former Return Path colleagues and some amazing investors and partners to start a new company.

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Stealth New York Leadership Founder 62

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice. In this economic age, ROI matters more than ever.”.

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Analytics Social Media Software Review Austin 59

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

People looking to drive true change and evolution in the Media Tech sector whether it’s investors, product owners from corporates, or potential partners. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. human brains love stories.

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