OpenStack: An example of why we are so passionate about early stage technology
I originally published this post on Storm’s blog but thought it ought to be here was well. I recently had the opportunity to speak at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego. It was a great conference and...
View ArticleDouble down on what is working as a Startup
When business starts to accelerate in a startup, before you really hit any scale, its easy to fall into the trap of focusing on new strategies for growth. The new shiny object. We have to invest in X...
View ArticleOpenStack 2014 – Panel Discussion on Building a Case for OpenStack
Ryan Floyd, Managing Director Storm Ventures Matt Haines, Vice President Time Warner Andy Salo, VP Product Management RGB Networks Douglas Soltesz, Vice President IST Budd Van Lines
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Surviving Technology Extinction: Mobile, Cloud and SaaS Are the IT Asteroids...
Jeff Haynie who is the CEO and co-founder of Appcelerator recently put together a great post with Re/code called Surviving Technology Extinction. It is a great read. Like so many things in life, one...
View ArticleAWS Re:Invent 2014
AWS is a force. The claim is that they have 5x the capacity of all the other public cloud vendors – combined. The pace of innovation on the platform, the quality of the services and the sheer scale...
View ArticleAtScale has Soul
A Storm portfolio company AtScale made a little noise this week in the press mostly around detailing the recent financing. Some of you might have heard of the company before: it got a lot of attention...
View ArticleOpenStack Podcast / Interview with NextCast’s Jeff Dickey and Cisco’s Niki...
I will put up another post after the OpenStack Vancouver Summit in May with my thoughts but I got on the webcam with Jeff Dickey and Niki Acosta who produce OSpod – there are a ton of other great...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Helping to Recruit and Build Teams.
It is a goal to help wherever I can and get out of the way when I can’t. Helping to recruit and build teams is one way I can do something other than write a check. I am sure a lot of venture investors...
View ArticleThe First Date – Just Get Out the Slides
I have had a few meetings in the last few weeks that have reminded me how important some structure is for the first date – or at least when you are really pitching – just quit the “lets just talk it...
View ArticleStorm Celebrates 15th Anniversary
In 2000 Tae Hea, Alex, Sanjay, Dick and myself founded Storm Ventures. We have had many struggles and many successes. This past June we celebrated our 15 year anniversary along with our Annual...
View ArticleThe Story behind Digital Shadows
With the next round of financing behind us and a great new investor, Fred Wang from Trinity Ventures, on the board, I thought I would look back at why we invested in Digital Shadows just over a year...
View ArticleGather
Recently in January, Storm was fortunate enough to invest in Gather, an Atlanta based company focused on event management SaaS. I say fortunate because we are always grateful when we find a team and...
View ArticleGetting Outside of Silicon Valley
Storm Ventures is an early stage investor and partner for enterprise leaders. I am not a road warrior. I don’t even spend a week a month on the road. But as an investor, I see many great opportunities...
View ArticleWhy Storm invested in Workato
As enterprises continue to migrate applications and workflows to the cloud, Storm has been interested in investing in companies that make that process even more compelling and easier. Companies need to...
View ArticleGrowing the Team – Paul Willard
We are happy to announce that Paul has decided to join the team at Storm as partner. We started working together in early 2017 and we both had the opportunity to see how each other works and thinks....
View ArticleDetermination: The Dawn Wall goes Free.
Everyone talks about grit and what it takes to make a start up successful – and they are right. I am not going to add much to that discussion here today. Sometimes though it can be hard for...
View ArticleWhy we need to give more funding to female entrepreneurs
We all know the dismal figures for the lack of women on boards and the rarity of female investors, now the attention has turned to the number of women receiving funding. In honour of International...
View ArticleThere’s no need to fear AI: It will create as many jobs as it steals
It is understandable that automation and its effect on jobs is the subject of much recent debate. Visions of robots doing all of our work and computers telling us our future is a scary picture....
View Article“As the number of senior women increases, the numbers of females at all...
Change must happen from the top. We need to increase the number of female partners in venture firms. As the number of senior women increases, the numbers of females at all levels will increase. Don’t...
View ArticleWhy this US investor is on the hunt for European founders
A US investor’s love letter to European startups. You might think that as an American investor in the heart of the tech startup universe — Silicon Valley — I’d want to stay local in my...
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