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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

When Avi Networks founders Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah, and Ranga Rajagopalan first came to Lightspeed in 2012 with their vision of bringing the benefits of a hyperscale approach to application delivery and layer 4-7 services, it made perfect sense to us.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

As in all things startup-related, the distributions are not even. That means that the classes of 2012-2014, which so far have raised a bit under $200 million among all companies, could represent $1 billion of further investments likely to occur over the next couple of years. All eyes on you, classes of 2012, 2013, 2014!

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.