Posts Categorized: Blog

Originally published at www.pehub.com on December 7, 2015. A significant event happened in early 2013: a new venture capital fund was born. This may not sound so significant to you, but it was significant to me and my partners at Subtraction Capital…. Read more »

At Subtraction Capital, we invest in companies we would work for.  Literally, if the fund did not exist tomorrow, Jason or I (usually both though) need to be able to say that we would be totally excited about being an employee at… Read more »

Originally published at Inc.com on October 29, 2015 by Bubba Page, Founder of QuotaDeck.  I have loved getting to know venture capitalists from all over the country during my time fundraising for my company QuotaDeck and probably will be back at it again next… Read more »

He had me at “We need to dynamically append sharing urls with utm codes.” For those of you in marketing who have ever met someone like Pete O’Leary of Chefs Feed, you know what I mean. Pete is one of those rare,… Read more »

In Part 1, I reviewed a general philosophy that starts a framework for managing very talented folks in Silicon Valley.  Remember, this is the Big Leagues of tech, and if you want your company to grow fast you need to attract and retain… Read more »

Trick or Treat! Really the horses have been dressing up as Unicorns for a while, but Halloween just seems like a fun day to call out the emperor’s clothes for the costumes they are in many cases. Since @AileenLee @CowboyVC coined the… Read more »

Hiring talented people and letting them execute (and not leave) is the only path to success for a startup.  As I said in the “Subtraction = Growth” blogpost, bandwidth is the most critical resource of any startup.  A manager can not afford… Read more »

This is my first post on working with start up companies in the area of User Acquisition and Engagement. As Operating Partner for Subtraction Capital and during my time at BEA, Red Bricks Media, Levi’s and Practice Fusion, I predominantly worked on… Read more »