Agile VC

JANUARY 18, 2012

1) Creating an Organization from the Ground Up - Picking co-founders and then later hiring other great folks is always tough, but founding entrepreneurs get to choose their colleagues and together create an organization and culture of their own.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Cofounder Silicon Valley Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

1) Hire transformative CEO to replace Ballmer. It would probably take a near-death experience for Microsoft to realize that being awesome in something is better than being mediocre in everything. The path to being awesome in something would look roughly like this.

Cloud 113

Cloud Azure Phoenix Non-Compete 113

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You either start trying to invest in stuff you know less well or you hire a bunch of other partners who you hope know that stuff better than you. But usually what makes a VC partnership great in its early days doesn’t easily translate into other new strategies down the road.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

We were post-product but pre-revenue when we raised LinkedIn’s Series A , but we laid out a specific plan around jobs/hiring and premium subscriptions which form the basis of nearly 70% of LinkedIn’s revenue today. There’s no magic formula for a successful Series A unfortunately.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113