Mike Maples, Jr

Current

• Managing General Partner at Maples Investments

Past

• Co-Founder at Motive Inc
• Director, Product Marketing at Tivoli Systems (now part of IBM Software Group)
• Product Manager at Silicon Graphics

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Education

• Harvard Business School
• Stanford University

Recommended

6 people have recommended Mike

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Mike Maples, Jr’s Summary

Mike Maples, Jr’s Specialties:

Marketing, product management, venture capital

Mike Maples, Jr’s Experience

• Managing General Partner

  Maples Investments

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

  Our objective is to be a world-class 'micro-cap' venture investor, focused on breakthrough business models, led by frugal entrepreneurs. Example investments include Twitter, digg, Solarwinds, Kongregate, Chegg, Demandforce, Aggregate Knowledge, YuMe Networks, ngmoco, Smule, and Spiceworks

• Co-Founder

  Motive Inc

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MOTV; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1997 — January 2005 (7 years 9 months)

  Co-Founded Motive, Inc., a $100M (revenues) software company that builds self-management capabilities into consumer and corporate technology products and services. Served in various roles, including Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, GM of a Business Unit, and Business Development.

• Director, Product Marketing

  Tivoli Systems (now part of IBM Software Group)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1994 — May 1997 (2 years 11 months)

  Started as product manager for Tivoli's PC desktop management products. Took over responsibility for deployment products and then product marketing for the complete Tivoli product line as part of the IBM Software Group.

• Product Manager

  Silicon Graphics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1990 — August 1992 (2 years 1 month)

  Product Manager for Digital Media hardware in what was then known as Entry Systems Division (ESD).

Mike Maples, Jr’s Education

• Harvard Business School

  MBA , Business , September 1992 — May 1994

• Stanford University

  BS , Engineering , 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Mike Maples, Jr’s Websites:

• My Website

Mike Maples, Jr’s Interests:

Professional calligrapher, amateur moviemaker.

Mike Maples, Jr’s Groups:

Weekend to be named later

•    Pragmatic Marketing Alumni
•    Weekend to be Named Later
•    Tivoli Software Alumni (Pre- 2002)
•    SF Bay Area Ivy Plus Alumni
•    Great Free Apps
•    Stanford University Alumni Association
•    Global Silicon Valley
•    uShip

Mike Maples, Jr’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures