Erik Rannala
Co-Founder & Partner
Prior to forming Mucker Capital, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital, where he helped lead one of the original seed-stage “micro-VC” firms in Silicon Valley.
Before Harrison Metal, Erik served as vice president of global product strategy and development at TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site. Prior to TripAdvisor, Erik held a variety of positions at eBay, including leadership of eBay’s premium features business, which grew during his tenure to over $400 million in revenue, significantly outpacing overall eBay revenue and transaction growth. Previously, Erik held leadership roles at MVP.com and Accenture, where he was a software developer in Accenture’s first practice group dedicated to Internet strategy and development. Erik earlier served at the Domestic Policy Council in the White House.
Erik holds a BS from the University of Delaware and an MBA from Duke University.
Erik can be reached at erik at mucker dot com.
Articles by Erik Rannala
TechCrunch Visits MuckerLab
Erik happened to be on vaca so they ended up having to interview the looser canon on the team. I hope I didn’t say anything stupid 🙂 More on Inside...
Panjo: We Gonna Bring Sexy (eBay) Back
At some point in the life cycle of any successful company, it will have to abandon what made it successful in the first place. In the search for growth, the...
Prevailing Wisdom
1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company” (Internet) 1996 – “It’s impossible to get...
Software Eating Industries
A little more than one year ago, Marc Andreessen wrote a seminal piece which has defined venture investing and entrepreneurship since. The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently...
Riding On The Wings Of Angels, VCs Avoid The So-Called Series A Crunch
This is a guest post from my partner, erik rannala thats originally published on Techcrunch. Much has been written about the Series A crunch that is facing entrepreneurs and their...
White Swans
A better edited version was posted by Michael Carney (thanks Michael!) @ pando daily. Go read that one instead! ************ In the past 30 days I’ve had sad and unfortunate...