I’ve spent the last few years looking closely at various segments of the online advertising space broadly defined and of the 10 new investments Trinity made in the past 12 months, 4 fall into this category. Those four include TubeMogul (online video analytics and ad targeting), RedAril (announced but stealth), gWallet (online virtual goods and social gaming) and one soon [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Entrepreneurship’
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 in this [...]
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 in [...]
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 group has [...]
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 [...]
