Hi, everyone, and happy Thursday morning. StrictlyVC was on parenting duty yesterday (closed summer camp), but hopefully you’ll gain a useful insight or two from today’s rushed column! —– Top News in the A.M. Mobile and Sprint are reportedly zeroing in on a $32 billion merger. —– The Pain and Pleasure of Cloud-Based Subscription Billing Earlier this week, a group […]
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Mike Volpi: If You Don’t Own Bitcoin Yet, Buy It
Last Thursday, I sat down with Mike Volpi, a general partner at Index Ventures in San Francisco, and later mentioned to you that I’d feature his thoughts on Bitcoin. Here, now, is that part of our conversation, lightly edited for length. If you were to start your own company in 2014, what would it be? If […]
Why It’s “Eyes on the Enterprise” at Index Ventures
In a sit-down with general partner Mike Volpi of Index Ventures late last week, Volpi shared how 18-year-old Index approaches venture marketing — and why it worries about competing with its founders for attention. Volpi – long a top Cisco executive before joining Index – also explained why he’s confident that investors, who largely shifted their focus […]
Index Ventures’ Mike Volpi on the Pitfalls of VC Marketing
Index Ventures is widely perceived by other VCs to be a top-tier firm. Among its active investments are Sonos, the wireless music system company; Dropbox, the popular online storage service; and Hortonworks, a commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop. The goal for Index now is to raise its profile with U.S. entrepreneurs, many of whom still […]