Over the past couple of months, I’ve had the privilege of participating along side some fine purveyors of IronGiving. As you can read on my About page, IronGiving is the act of sharing wisdom, insight or tips to help others fortify their startups and, hopefully, their lives more broadly. I thought I’d recognize three of these purveyors [...]
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April 23, 2010
Happy 100th Release to CubeTree!
When I first met Carlin Wiegner and Ross Fubini, the cofounders of CubeTree, it was late 2007. My good friend and former Trinity EIR, Nick Mehta, introduced Carlin and Ross to me as fellow Symantec executives who were starting to brainstorm about a new company. Over the past two and a half years since that first [...]
October 13, 2009
“Real Time”: Overhyped or Problem Solver?
There has been a lot of talk (hype? buzz?) in the investment and entrepreneur community around the concept of Real Time on the web this year. Twitter’s fast growth and its real time message stream certainly brought a spot light to this concept and fueled the excitement. Facebook is more and more focused on real [...]
October 9, 2009
What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management?
What is the difference between “leadership” and “management”? This past Wednesday night, over 50 CEOs and Founders from across the Trinity Ventures portfolio gathered together for our annual CEO and Founder dinner to debate this question. Imbued by energized networking and copious cocktails, we explored and debated the fundamentals of leadership and management in difficult times, since, especially [...]
October 2, 2009
Enterprise 2.0 in 2010: Twitter / SharePoint / Google Wave / Facebook Tailwinds Fuel Growth
Thx to Geek and Poke for the image above. The term “Enterprise 2.0” was coined back in April 2006 when Andrew MacAfee wrote this Sloan Management Review Article. Since, then MacAfee has become almost synonymous with the term Enterprise 2.0 and is even coming out with a new book on the topic to be published [...]
September 23, 2009
Want to get acquired by Microsoft? Start with this group…
I recently sat down with Dan’l Lewin, head of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team and his colleague, Lynda Ting. Basically, this is the team that performs advanced scouting of startups for bd/m&a/partnerships for Microsoft. They have 10 people aligned across 40 product groups within the 5 main business units that comprise Microsoft. A few observations: This [...]
September 16, 2009
Lesson from 2002: Fund Companies in 2009!
Earlier this year, we all saw the broader stock market hit new scary lows and many were wondering where it would stop. The overall downturn in the economy prompted us at Trinity to have a broader strategic discussion around our investment strategy. We wondered internally whether we should pull back and expect to make fewer investments in 2009? Or, should [...]
September 9, 2009
The Fourth Wave of Marketing Automation = Tapping the Social Web
When was the last time you received an email newsletter or a cold call that was relevant and personalized? Right – never. Well, read on, for change is afoot and a new wave of companies in the older category of Marketing Automation who are taking advantage of our digital footprints on the web to better tailor their [...]
