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Nest Labs

StrictlyVC: November 13, 2014

Good day, dear readers! We have a longer-than-usual column today, so we scrapped some other sections, but much like the Terminator, they will be back. (Psst, web visitors, here’s an easier-to-read version of today’s email.) —– Top News in the A.M. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday moved to advance a bill that would usher […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Dropcam, Nest Labs

Unrest at Nest

Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders. It should have been a time to celebrate. After all, last June, Duffy sold Dropcam to Nest Labs for $555 million. As the […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Dropcam, Nest Labs

Kleiner Perkins’ Trae Vassallo Reboots

Trae Vassallo’s early investment in Nest Labs, maker of Internet-connected devices like thermostats and smoke alarms, has placed her in the ranks of today’s top venture capitalists. But Vassallo, along with a handful of other longtime Kleiner Perkins general partners, was recently cut from the firm’s investment committee in a sweeping reorganization first reported by Fortune. Perhaps […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Enlighted, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Nest Labs, OPower, Trae Vassallo

Tony Fadell: Patent the Hell Out of Everything

Earlier this week, at the Le Web Paris conference, Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell shared his unambiguous advice when it comes to patents. File for them early. File for them often. Then file some more. As a longtime exec at Apple, where Fadell was instrumental in creating both the iPod and iPad, Fadell is accustomed to both […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Nest Labs, Tony Fadell

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