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Contributors
Revving The Innovation Engine: Trends to Watch for at Structure
This post originally appeared on GigaOM.
Click here to view the livestream of Structure 2012. Matt Howard will serve as a judge on the LaunchPad panel today at 5:00 p.m.
GigaOM’s Structure event this week reminds me of the well-documented relationship between economic crises and technological innovation: Hard times bring out the best in entrepreneurs, precipitating a creative destruction that resets the technology infrastructure and transforms business.… Read more …
Going for The Hat Trick
It’s rare, when you have a chance to back a successful entrepreneur three times in a row, and that’s exactly what we are doing today with our venture investment in ClearDATA.
ClearDATA CEO Darin Brannan is a veteran serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of combined venture capital, entrepreneurial and public company executive experience. … Read more …
TOTAL ACCESS Speaker Series Recap – Consumer-Driven Technology on the Rise
I was recently interviewed by John Bautista, Partner in the Emerging Companies Group at Orrick, regarding the areas in which I am interested in investing, as well as the up-and-coming trends that are currently energizing me as an investor. There are many new and exciting technologies on the horizon, but the three that I am most enthusiastic about are the following:
1) SMB/ SaaS: We recently invested in a company called Adaptive Planning, a leader in cloud-based corporate performance management solutions.… Read more …
The Rise of SMB SaaS & Adaptive Planning
Historically, we saw venture investing trending toward technology opportunities catering to either large enterprises or consumers. Many VC’s avoided investing in technology companies focused on small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The conventional wisdom was that this sector suffered from three hurdles, which made it very difficult to build long-lasting and profitable businesses:
- Customer acquisition and retention costs are low compared to lifetime value.
