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Re: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India

Anthony Kuhn — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:23:42 -0000

Chris: The East and India are once again the focus of entrepreneurial expansion, as they have been in the distant past. Interesting to think that America is no longer the focus of VC funding efforts. I can see, though, that the new force in consumption will be billions of Indians and Chinese, so that's where the money's going to go. I wonder how the Chinese vegetable garden is growing these days? Full of poisonous fertilizers and lead?

Re: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India

Matt Bowman — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:18:34 -0000

Nice rundown, Chris. Seems the worse the economy gets, the more big money gets diverted to VC (and via them, oversees).
I spoke with Ravi last week about the new fund--the 1.5-minute version is up here: http://alwayson.goingon.com...

Re: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India

Sramana Mitra — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:17:58 -0000

Raising these larger funds have nothing to do with India being capital starved and such:
http://sramanamitra.com/200...

It has everything to do with the greed for bigger Management Fees:
http://sramanamitra.com/200...

Re: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India

free bet — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:56:44 -0000

well, I would deffinately try China over India...the future of this country is just exhilarating in terms of economic throughput