Kevin Spain has punched a whole lot of golden tickets on his way to a partnership at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. And some of his most interesting ideas on building start-ups have to do with acquiring start-ups to bolster one of his firm’s portfolio companies.

Spain came out to Silicon Valley after winning Wharton’s business plan competition in the late 1990s. He decided that was the place to turn his plan for a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor to small businesses — into a real company.

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