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. Small ball would be acquisitions of companies which help manage and power cloud applications and there’s lots to choose from here: stodgy old guys like BMC to recently public ServiceNow or Splunk to privately held startups (MongoDB, et al). Want names?

Cloud 113

Cloud Azure Phoenix Non-Compete 113

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

While ownership and control of the management company matters , these stakes are rarely monetizable at least in the VC business (unlike the buyout world where huge firms like Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo have IPO’d to the great financial benefit of the founders). To a lesser extent the desire for greater industry prestige is a factor.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240