Passionate Intensity
From the monthly archives: June 2011
Innovative products and people who build them make my work in venture capital enjoyable . In my mind, VC investing means feeling innovation’s pulse. Over the years, I have started to classify creative ideas into two broad categories: : process innovations and product innovations. You need some combination of [...]
Fifteen years ago, between my first and second companies, I spent a few months at Sequoia Capital (investors in both) as an Entrepreneur in Residence. In my late 20′s, I was certainly not ready to be a real venture capitalist, but was not [...]
About Me
I am the Managing Director of RTP Ventures, the U.S. operation of a $700M+ international Venture Capital fund. I was also a Venture Partner at Greycroft. I am a three-time founder and CEO of software companies including Plumtree Software and Elastra. Spent most of my life working on databases and working with VCs. Finally bit the bullet and joined one. Ready for something new. Passionate and intense about Software and New York City. (I know where the title comes from, and... the falcon can not hear the falconer)
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