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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Startups’
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 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 [...]
