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Kamini Ramani

Kamini Ramani’s mission is to deliver on the Mayfield brand promise to entrepreneurs and to provide a range of support to portfolio companies. She loves crafting ...

These three trends will transform how employees use their phones

As an investor in enterprise mobile startups, I meet with hundreds of entrepreneurs every year whose business plans include the “mobile” buzzword. Many of them are ...

Our Advice to Start-Up CEOs

When Ursheet Parikh sold his company StorSimple in 2012 to Microsoft, it was one of the largest deals in the cloud infrastructure sector to date. But that ...

Patrick Salyer

"People matter most. I wake up every day with a mission to create trusted, lifelong relationships with entrepreneurs and do whatever it takes to help them ...

5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

In the era of mobile, social, and the sharing economy, we’re seeing the emergence of next-gen mobile-enabled marketplaces in every ecommerce category, from fashion (Poshmark), to ...

Vaneeta Varma

Vaneeta Varma is the Chief Financial Officer and her responsibilities include overseeing the operations of the firm, financial reporting, accounting, investor relations, information technology, human resources, ...

A ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ approach to venture capital

The venture capital industry is getting rightsized, with less capital raised and deployed, smaller funds, fewer active venture capital firms, and more regulation. The exit climate ...

Finding the next AWS, VMWare or EMC

In a world where, in the blink of an eye, anyone with a credit card can access what is essentially the largest computer in the world ...

Embracing a Mobile-First Mentality for a Brave, New World

With over one billion smartphones and over 120 million tablets in use today, the PC era has given way to the world of mobile. Consumers, developers ...

Rules of the Road for the Era of Simplicity, Mobile and the Social Web

I have been involved in the technology industry for 20 years as a serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and investor. There are some key rules of the ...