Early-stage presentations are not cookie-cutter productions; instead, they should reflect the passion and vision of the founders.

Does it matter where you choose to start a new company? I recently had the chance to debate that question with Damien Patten, the founder of Banjo, a service that combs through people’s public social-media posts.

Verizon’s $4.4 billion bid for AOL has put the spotlight back on public tech company valuations. But more startups are joining the ranks of “unicorns”, or private tech firms that have been valued at $1 billion or more.

We work in a cyclical business. The Innovation Cycle and Capital Markets Cycle are both critical factors in creating a great company. 

UX/UI Design is one of the most in-demand skills in Silicon Valley today. At Wing, we focus on technology products for business markets, and the entrepreneurs we work with feel the design imperative.

Every decade or so a new computing platform takes the industry by storm. The latest is the Distributed Computing Fabric, with Hadoop in particular generating intense interest.

Technology entrepreneurs and investors alike have long regarded commoditization as a dark and dangerous force, a destroyer of high-margin businesses, to be avoided at all costs.

Once thought to be only legend, rogue waves occur when previously distinct waves merge to form a new one of unprecedented scale. As far as technology shifts go, DMC is a rogue wave.

We are at a nexus of change in business markets that will likely take 15 years to play out, and be at least an order of magnitude greater than any that has come before.

Wing is an extremely focused venture firm that helps to build billion-dollar companies in the business technology markets. We are company builders. We are not portfolio managers.

Looking at the history of our industry, we notice a pattern of transformations every 15 years or so. Each time, the number of computing devices within the new model increases by an order of magnitude,…

In 2011, I got a call from longtime friend and colleague Ed Bugnion, who wanted to introduce me to two guys working on a dangerous idea in data center networking – JR Rivers and Nolan Leake.

I realized that there was a looming existential hurdle to the deployment of broadband networking itself.

Dan and Alex follow an independent path well outside the industry dogma - such orthogonal, cross-grain thinking stands behind the biggest entrepreneurial success stories.

Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari founded Nimble Storage based on an observation at the foundation of data storage – the physical media itself.