Nick Sturiale was a partner with the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds for eight years, until the high-profile split between that firm's two offices in Dallas and Palo Alto in January.More on Sturiale's transition in our next post from this interview. Sturiale landed on his feet, and to the west a few miles. He's now "learning a new business" at the Carlyle Group, where he is part of a team based in Menlo Park and San Francisco evaluating growth company investment opportunities.  Sturiale's new role means he's looking at companies much larger and older than those that interested him as a VC.Yet he's still looking at a lot of the same technologies he's invested in for years -- SaaS, virtualization, ... [ Read more ]