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Jeremy Liew

About:

Jeremy Liew is a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early stage, tech focused Venture Capital Firm. At Lightspeed, Jeremy invests primarily in the internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, gaming, commerce, and methods for increasing monetization. He joined Lightspeed in early 2006. He has led Lightspeed’s investments in Rock You, Flixster, Tippit, Mercantila and Streetfire.net.

Previously, Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape.

Jeremy joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks) where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there, he was responsible for acquisitions, divestitures and investments in TV Networks, consumer internet companies and online travel companies.

Jeremy started working in the consumer internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996 where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey and Company.

Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics.

Jeremy is a frequent contributor to the Lightspeed blog at http://lsvp.wordpress.com.

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Blog Posts

blog posts

Three meta-rules for usability design

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I recently saw a useful deck from Create with Context about how people really use the iPhone. The company did a bunch of ethnographic research on h...

We’re excited to invest in Casual Collective

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I spent way too many hours playing Desktop Tower Defence last year. When I met Paul Preece, the man who destroyed my productivity for months, and h...

Facebook’s digital goods revenue $50-60m sources say

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In September, I estimated that Facebook’s digital goods sales were on a $35m revenue run rate. Silicon Alley Insider quotes an anonymous insi...

More signs of consumer discretionary spending slowdown, online feeling the impact

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Last month I wondered which companies might prosper in an advertising recession: Companies that buy advertising (rather than selling it) will find ...

Facebook’s engagement ads could be the standard we need for social media advertising

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The WSJ today notes that Facebook lags Myspace substantially in ad sales, despite having surpassed MySpace in usage: [Facebook] … says 70 of...

Founders, be ready for the long haul

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The chart below shows the average time in years between a startup’s first equity investment (usually Series A) and its sale, for companies so...


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Comments

Sara Margulis:

I've got a travel related website and would love to pick your brain!

susan mernit:

lets meet up...some news.and could use advice.
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Tiffany Jonas:

Jeremy, I enjoyed your post "Five things startups should not skimp on"... hear, hear!

Tiffany Jonas

Mike Prasad:

Would you interested in talking about Gaming and or Female Gaming as a possible panel at Web2Open?