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For decades the leading network companies have been tightly coupling their software to complex, custom-built chips. Besides leaving IT buyers with a staggering array of appliances, the reliance on custom silicon has chilled industry startup activity. But with software defined …
Hyperink is an interesting startup focused on reinventing publishing in an e-book world. (We are not investors). They have published a number of great “blogs to books”, including ones from Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow), Sean Ellis (growth hacker …
Last week we announced our company Pushpins was acquired by Performance Marketing Brands (parent to Ebates/Fatwallet). It has been a wild ride since we started the company in our dorm at Harvard Business School just over three years ago My …
Lightspeed is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Summer Fellowship Program. The program is designed to be a unique opportunity for student led teams to spend the summer experiencing what it is like to …
Over the last 12 months, there have been a handful of acquisitions of mobile start-ups like RapSphere* (by Appsense), Nukona (by Symantec) and most recently Zenprise (by Citirix) that help enterprises better manage mobile devices. In the consumer world, …
There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt …
Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night.
The most interesting company to present was The Coop, a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in …
In the past few years, the opportunities for game developers have exploded. With more places than ever to play — from proliferating smartphones to Facebook — games are the most popular category of applications.
I’m often asked what I look …
Season 4 of week 10 of Shark Tank was interesting because two of the pitches were for internet businesses that I could imagine seeing in my day job as a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist. I cover one of them, …
