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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 … Continue reading

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Foursquare meets Right Media (or, Local meets Online Display Ad Exchanges)

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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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