Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. advertising Consumer Internet Social Media Social Networks startups commerce internet media mobile social TV' Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. Are you ready? *A

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. The solution utilizes our unique technology in combination with standard GSM networks and Tier 1 international trunk lines to deliver service.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Estimated 100 – 200 total entities Friends & family – basic networking. Otherwise, private owners tend to have unrealistic expectations or an arbitrary sale price expectation. Intermediaries. Join the right clubs.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network. And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work.

Leadership 95

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Is email a key part of your marketing portfolio?

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio. powered by.

Leadership 93

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 93

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. Twitter continues to grow in usage, overtaking Myspace to become the third largest social network in the world.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase. By now, a few trends are emerging.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio.

Israel 68

Israel OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and strategies for any investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Begin with perhaps 5-10 percent of your total investment base, and be prepared to lose it all.

Liquidity Event 300

Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

Here are two examples from e-commerce use cases – both are V1 portfolio companies: Shippo : developers can use this API to connect businesses to shipping carriers. First, you can aggregate the supply especially in antiquated industries where a lot of infrastructure needs to be built for the API-as-a-marketplace.

API 207

API Aggregator B2B Demand 207

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and strategies for any investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Liquidity Event 224

Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Additional systematic value-add after investment – Strategic venture investors can add a unique set of benefits, firms with large portfolios have network effects where many institute systematic sharing among the companies, some larger VCs offer a range of “full-service” including PR and recruiting and other functions.

Syndication 207

Syndication Syndicate Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Gust

APRIL 30, 2014

Having now invested in over 85 startups, and finding that my personal metrics are very similar to aggregated industry ones, it is clear that (a) there is little to no correlation between my home runs and my personal favorites, and (b) angel investing done correctly really *can* produce a consistent IRR in the 25%-30% range.

Angel Investor 148

Angel Investor IRR Due Diligence Aggregator 148

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. . - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. Gust.com , Angel.co , and Second Market have all done this successfully, by being value-added on top of existing networks of investors and investees.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). These great people are in our network. Even more of them are within our network’s network.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? . The answer is YES! We purposely kept the tone factual rather than prescriptive.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

IPO 123

IPO Cofounder Early Stage San Francisco 123

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. What will broadcast television and the networks and providers behind them have to say?

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. What will broadcast television and the networks and providers behind them have to say?

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120