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Azure Capital's numbers game

Posted on October 14, 2008

As a venture firm founded during the last gasp of the dot-com boom in April 2000, San Francisco's Azure Capital Partners got a crash course early on about rough economic conditions. Today, founding general partner Mike Kwatinetz readily admits the firm made too many investments during its first year and was not focused enough on value.But as a survivor of the tech downturn, Azure also knows that there are profits to be made during even the toughest times. Just last week Azure cashed in on an investment made during the dire post-Sept. 11. 2001, days -- a time when many considered the Intern...

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