By Tom Tunguz

Peter Senge has been called the most influential business strategists of the century and in my view Senge is the successor of Peter Drucker, the management visionary. Senge published a book in 1990 called The Fifth Discipline which I…

By Tom Tunguz

Every once in a while, it’s nice to look retrospectively over the past 20 years to see how technology has evolved. I’ve prepared four charts to demonstrate the evolution of technology.

By Tom Tunguz

Venture capital appears to be defying reason. On one hand, early stage fund raising has declined 48% year-over-year. On the other, there’s a start-up boom. Everyone, it seems, is starting something. And in Silicon Valley valuations…

By Satish Dharmaraj

Clarity is everything in a startup. That’s why metrics can be such a great help. But not all metrics are created equal.

One of my CEOs recently shared with me the way he thinks about metrics. I thought it…

By Tom Tunguz

When a startup is approached by an established company about partnership, it can be a very exciting time.

Sometimes partnerships change the trajectory of a startup. Other times, the weight of…

By Tom Tunguz

Nir Eyal posted on TechCrunch about Encouraging Users to Work for You

Several studies have shown that expending effort on a task seems to commit us to it…After a user has been triggered into action and duly…

By Tom Tunguz

Over lunch last week, I asked a Redpoint entrepreneur, who had recently sold his company, how his board could have been more helpful to him. His answer surprised me.

By Satish Dharmaraj

Today Redpoint is pleased to announce that we are leading a round of financing at Zendesk. Zendesk is one of those companies that has re-defined the SaaS landscape. Not only did it dramatically simplify a complex and old…

By Satish Dharmaraj

Redpoint Ventures is proud to announce our investment in Big Switch Networks. We have been looking at data center architectures and how they are changing for a while now, being first exposed to that through our…

By Tom Tunguz

I call the last working week in December Board Week because it’s packed with board meetings. These board meetings are often the most important of the year. By virtue of their place on the calendar, everyone in the room is thinking…