My Three Most Important Lessons Learned at Harvard Business School Business school sometimes get a bad rap in the startup world.  Some of it is deserved – it’s big opportunity cost, and until fairly recently, the approach to most business schools to entrepreneurship has been more about theory than practice. Thankfully this is changing.  But [...]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of joining a number of investors in a meeting with entrepreneurs and policy makers in the education space. It was a terrific group that includedd Karen Cator (Director of Ed Tech for the US Department of Education), Paul Reville (MA Secretary of Education) and Joanne Weiss (Chief of Staff of the US Secretary [...]

We’re taking some time this month to talk about the components of our ethos at NextView.  Taking investment from a VC is a very personal decision, and we thought it was important to try to articulate our values and culture in a way that is a little deeper than what you typically see on a [...]

There is a lot of discussion on the web about raising seed and series A rounds, but not much after that.  I think there is some false conventional wisdom these days that once a company has achieved “product market fit” the job is done.  However, that is far from the truth, and I often hear [...]

The entire Tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook’s IPO next week.  I’m excited – the company is an absolute MONSTER, as the numbers will show.  It’s truly THE pillar company since Google and it has completely transformed the web. But, as I’ve reflected on Facebook this past weekend, I [...]