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Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Thanks much.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. The founders have started companies before. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?
David Teten
JUNE 19, 2020
Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, wrote an insightful essay, “ Two Kinds of Moderate ”: “There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. I’m an Advisor to Tuesday Company. exception: Bob Dole, 1996.). Download the “Team” app by Tuesday Company on the app store.
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