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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Since then, as a team, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest behind the vision of the founders of some tremendous consumer companies across messaging, social media, e-commerce, Internet of Things, marketplaces and gaming. But I was the first person to solely focus on consumer investing. As a team, the next ten will be even better.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Or in co-working spaces it’s not. We are a company of five, and we have two co- founders, myself and Adam Ride. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T. Jason: Wow, Chext.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.