Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 17, 2025

Its old world charm is confirmed by the Burma teak wood fittings, the light ash terrazzo flooring and the grandfather clock at the end of the store. Stores stands on Ibrahim Saheb Street, a by-lane of Commercial Street, a popular shopping hub in central Bengaluru.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. I last went to Burma in 2007. In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. I last went to Burma in 2007. In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world. I last went to Burma in 2007. In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Burma Shave highway signs (1925). Shoot the brute some… Burma-Shave! Through the power of this advertising tactic, Burma Shave would become the second highest selling brand of shaving cream on the market. Does your husband Misbehave? Grunt and grumble? Rant and rave? One last one, shall we?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2015

And since opening its borders to global trade in 2012, Myanmar, formerly Burma, is creating an extraordinary entrepreneurial environment owing to its “greenfield” advantage: a rare opportunity to build a fit-for-purpose economy to suit the modern world.

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