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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

When I started in venture capital, east coast VC’s largely had a formula for the kind of founders they wanted to back. There was a high degree of interest in backing repeat, experienced entrepreneurs or executives.  Many successful investors had […]

I watched Apple’s announcement about their textbook offerings with great interest yesterday. It’s a market that I’ve been following for a long long time and one where I have pretty strong feelings. A couple quick thoughts from my vantage point: […]

In a prior post about what it’s like to be a VC  I made the claim that even if an investor has operating experience, that experience gets stale after a few years. This led to the following question in my comments: “You […]

One important component of our ethos at NextView is the idea of being part of a “Tribe“. There are two sides of this idea.  One is the idea of being a participant and a contributor to the community that we […]

A year ago, I wrote a post detailing some tidbits about our portfolio.  One year later, we’ve made more investments and learned a lot.  I believe that the best way to understand an investor is to meet the founders that […]