Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The product was introduced in 2006 and created a whole new category of easy to use video cameras. The founders did a terrible job of explaining what the product did and how it was differentiated, constantly falling back on calling it “social media” as though that would explain everything.

Pre-Money Valuation 162

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 162

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our As a VC, I do not differentiate between a seed investment and any other investment that I make. each are equally happy situations.)

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 152

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Google introduced sitelinks in 2006. If you’re not desperate to hire and you syndicate your job listings through other sites, there’s no reason to take up valuable real estate with a page whose presence relies on signals from non-customers: Jobs pages have tons of user signals—but low ROI—for brand queries.

Curation 100

Curation Conversion Search Mobile 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 million at a $15 million pre-money valuation.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301