We prefer to invest in companies where we can actively help. We believe this makes us better stewards of our investments and is more fun for everyone.

Here are some ways in which we help our portfolio companies:

General Startup Advice
Miriam has experienced all phases of startup life. She co-founded a
venture-backed company with Clint, helped grow Google from $80 million in revenue to over $10 billion, and even had the painful experience of shrinking Ariba during the dot com bust.

Clint is a serial entrepreneur with a solid track record of going from nothing to something. He raised $10 million in angel and venture money, sold millions of dollars of startup products and services to Fortune 500 companies, managed through 90 person months of not being able to pay salaries and only lost one person. He knows the pressures of startup life and can offer experienced counsel.

Business Model Development
Miriam has seen a wide variety of internet related business models. She knows which sound good but do not deliver, what large customers will accept, and how to tweak a business model to maximize revenue velocity.

Clint knows how to assess and model uncertainties. His strategic financial models identify a business model’s key drivers of value and risk, helping companies weigh tradeoffs and make an informed business model decision.

Strategy Development
Clint co-developed and pioneered a process called the Decision Compression Session (DCS) which allows teams to radically compress the time it takes to create strategies and make important decisions. A DCS focuses a team’s conversation on what matters most in a structured process that drives to a decision.