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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
