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ataussig

70 karma · joined August 18, 2011

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. We are early investors in consumer internet leaders like Affirm, Blockchain, Bonobos, Giphy, Luxe, Mic, Nest, Stitch Fix, Snapchat, TaskRabbit, Honest Company, and Whisper. Enterprise investments include AppDynamics, Clever (YC), MuleSoft, Nicira, Nimble Storage, and Nutanix.

I led Lightspeed's investments in Daily Harvest, Vector, Zola and several other unannounced startups. Prior to joining Lightspeed, I was a partner at Highland Capital, where I led early rounds at Jaunt, thredUP, RentJuice/Zillow, RethinkDB (YC), Filepicker (YC), & others.

Blog at medium.com/@ataussig. Tweet as @ataussig.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ataussig; my proof: https://keybase.io/ataussig/sigs/BrdZE88_7xw09zS2zzZs8hBMwBaraxfTP1ffoNlvPyk ]

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How do VCs internalize startup risk?

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Are cohorts the future of public company analysis?

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Finding product/channel fit at Zola

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What startups can learn from Amazon's cash machine

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Launching Zola Weddings

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Spaghetti graphs – a better solution for measuring customer engagement

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How to land an Associate job in VC

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How to stand out from your competition

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The existential crisis of peak car ownership

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Silicon Valley shouldn't underestimate Sony's potential in VR

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To solve your marketing woes, focus on the heavy buyers

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3 rules every board member should follow

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How to stop being a wallflower and start working the room

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Many small markets do not make a big market

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Dear Snapchat, Thanks for the Memories

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The fanatics of online video are growing the pie

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Repeat rate is a vanity metric

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Online apparel has reached a turning point

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Pitching your business is the easy part

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What happens when private equity buys your competitor?

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What will humans do when cars drive themselves?

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High baud rate founders

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Drones...in 30 minutes or less.

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Calling all student founders: SummerHighland '13 applications are open

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What irks me about Avis-Zipcar

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Building a biodiverse startup team

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Rebuilding my RSS feed

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Crank turners

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CEO = Chief Triage Officer

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When startups compete, no one wins

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