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

YoungUpstarts

Exhibit B: Impersonal automated call technology increases the time we must wait to talk to a human (not to mention our frustration!). What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? Exhibit A: Seventy percent of Americans are disengaged from their jobs, which leads to the poor customer service we experience all too often.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

The embedded presentation above is filled with valuable data on the state of the Internet and trends in technology around the world. How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5. An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992–2013 | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1nJ2Ms0. 1nJ1vkG.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) Whitehill , now a partner at Fox Rothschild ) suggested that we shouldn’t use the typical path to a greencard under the EB-3 (Skilled worker/professional) category. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Research in Motion (RIM). Video Recording.