CEO Dick Costolo famously said that Twitter is not a media company about six weeks ago at the AllThingsD conference. To be fair, Costolo said that Twitter isn’t a media company but is “in the media business”.  To some that may be a distinction without a difference.  Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a [...]

Yesterday Yahoo! filed it’s much awaited lawsuit against Facebook for patent infringement.  New Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). You can read the whole complaint in the embedded document here (from AllThingsD’s coverage). I’m not [...]

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom, and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. Well what’s happened since then?  Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, [...]

Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. It’s obviously a nice thing to attract the interest of smart folks you might want to get involved in your startup as investors [...]

We recently completed the final close of NextView Ventures, LP and we’re excited about both our progress to date and our plans for the future. My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as [...]