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Jeremy Liew on Snapchat, Anonymous Apps, and the Fallibility of Intuition

Last week, we published several interviews from our most recent StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. Today we’re running the last of those interviews, with venture capitalist Jeremy Liew. Liew joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2006 from AOL, where he’d worked in corporate development, and as many readers will know, his star has risen quickly in […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Bonobos, Jeremy Liew, Kixeye, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Snapchat, The Honest Company, Whisper

StrictlyVC: March 12, 2015

Hi, happy Thursday, everyone! (If you aren’t a subscriber yet, here’s an easier-to-read version of this emailed newsletter.) —– Top News in the A.M. The Guardian has effectively retracted much of its widely circulated reporting about the anonymous messaging app Whisper. More here. Twitter just changed its rules to prohibit users from publicly posting intimate, […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Highfive, Lightspeed, Lyft, Rakuten, Snapchat

StrictlyVC: January 12, 2015

Good Monday morning, readers! Welcome back. A quick update: Tickets to our February event are now sold out. (We’re hoping we can get some of you off the wait list; stay tuned.) Thanks to everyone who’s coming. Thanks, too, to our sponsors, including Ballou PR. We’re really looking forward to seeing all of you. —– […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: MUBI, rolling close, Snapchat

The Rolling Close: Here to Stay or Gone Tomorrow?

Venture capital was long a clubby, opaque industry, but AngelList and crowdfunding are two intertwined innovations that have since knocked that model onto its side. Now, another related twist looks poised to roil it again: the rolling close. You’ve probably heard the term in recent years. A rolling close is what happens when a management […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: AngelList, crowdfunding, fundraising, future, MUBI, Paul Graham, rolling close, Snapchat

With Kleiner’s Snapchat Deal, There Isn’t Much to See

A week ago, the WSJ reported that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is investing up to $20 million in Snapchat at a $10 billion valuation as part of a larger round that the messaging app is assembling. The piece noted that just months earlier, DST Global had also quietly committed capital — at a $7 billion valuation. The […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Kleiner Perkins, Snapchat

The Beauty of Annoying Apps

Earlier this week, I stopped at the Palo Alto offices of General Catalyst Partners, an East Coast heavyweight that’s been politely muscling its way into more West Coast startups since planting a flag in the Bay Area in late 2010. One of those companies is Snapchat, the popular mobile messaging startup, and one of the […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Niko Bonatsos, Snapchat

That’s It?

Almost a week ago, some odious years-old emails written by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel were leaked to the media, and it’s a wonder how quickly their content seems to be have been swept under the rug. It’s understandable, to a point. Spiegel’s emails were written when he was a college student trying to impress his […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Benchmark, Coatue Management, Evan Spiegel, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Snapchat

Innovation in Snapchat Time

There’s been a lot of talk of “ephemerality” in tech circles lately, driven in part by the rise of Snapchat, the popular mobile app that allows users to send self-destructing messages and images. But Niko Bonatsos, a principal at General Catalyst Partners — which participated in Snapchat’s A and B funding rounds — thinks the […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: General Catalyst Partners, Kayak, Nikos Bonatsos, Snapchat

So Snapchat is Worth More than $3 Billion. Got It.

Yesterday, there was lots of back and forth about Snapchat, the fast-growing messaging service, and the $3 billion all-cash offer from Facebook that it recently spurned, according to the Wall Street Journal’s sources. (Apparently, three sources also confirmed this account to the New York Times.) As the Journal reported, the “rebuff” came as Snapchat is “being wooed by other […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Benchmark, Facebook, Snapchat

Venture Heavyweights Sit Back as Deal Sizes Soar

It’s been a banner week for a number of Internet companies. Last Wednesday, social network Pinterest acknowledged closing on a $225 million round that valued the company at $3.8 billion. Shortly thereafter, AllThingsD reported that Snapchat, the messaging app, is now weighing a $200 million investment round that would value the company at $3.5 billion. And just yesterday, NextDoor, […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Bill Gurley, Marc Andreessen, New Enterprise Associates, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Ravi Viswanathan, Snapchat

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