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A Very Short peak into the Metaverse

VC Cafe

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. What is the metaverse?

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball. Congratulations to Tony Fadell, Matt Rogers and the world class team at Nest!

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. Following are two examples from my own life. This took our relationship to a new level.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

John has invested in various small businesses and served as a mentor and branding authority since his beginnings in 1992. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011. 8- Eric Yuan, Zoom. Photo Credit: Sarah Jameson.

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Twitter Link Roundup #226 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5. An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992–2013 | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1nJ2Ms0. MUST READ post on women & men in tech by @mariakatris on @BuiltInChicago and her experiences – crowdspring.co/1xftfiX. 1nJ1vkG.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Do I ignore the people on my team, or do I make time for and develop them? Be generous.

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The Montana Future In A Dream

Feld Thoughts

I go to the front of the room, sit down, and start describing how in 1992, a small group of us got together in Burlington, Vermont and came up with the idea of the Montana future, where no one would want to live in big cities anymore so everyone would migrate to the west, set themselves up on big pieces of land, and work from their houses.

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