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- First Mover Fallacy
- Great Companies and the Teams IN FRONT of Them
- Should Apple Buy Hungary?
- Small Tablets Are Further Atomizing Ubiquitous Computing
- The Unbundled Mobile Software Stack
- Why VC’s Don’t “Crossover” Invest
- The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?
- Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter
- Tacking Towards Founder
- Running a Startup Board Meeting
- Our Investment in SkyVu / Battle Bears – Taking Mobile Games Into New Territory
- When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?
- Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”
- The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]
- The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1]
- Our Investment in Cloze
- Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened
- The Difference Between Apple & Facebook
- The End of “Internet” Companies
- The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers
- Opportunistic & Thematic Investing
- Farmeron – Why SaaS for Cows is Incredibly Exciting
- Ethos: What ‘Blank Canvas’ Means to NextView
- Urbanization of Startups
- Is “Data” a Business Model?
- Why Twitter is A Media Company
- Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing
- Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What?
- Smoke vs Fire: Handling “Preemptive” Interest From VCs
- Final Close: The Story Behind NextView’s Own Fundraise
- Blocking & Tackling
- Source, Select, Win
- Ethos: What Golazo Means to NextView
- Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade
- Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent?
- Seven Reasons to Become a Founding Entrepreneur
- The Difference Between “No” and “Not Yet”
- GrabCAD & Professional Communities
- Making Good Decisions Still Means You’re Sometimes Wrong
- Objective Logistics & Keeping Things in Perspective
- The Consumerization of Business Software
- The “PC” Era Finally Arrives
- Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models
- The Hulu Auction – Content Is Still King
- Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)… 2 Long Term Impacts
- Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress
- Odds Are, Your Startup Probably Isn’t a Platform
- What Milestones Are Needed to Raise a Series A?
- Stormannsgalskap: The Madness of Great Men
- Groupon’s S-1: From Zero to Like… Billions in 30 Months
- LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story
- Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak
- In Search of True Believers
- Boom or Bubble Redux
- Startup Fundraising: There is no try
- The LinkedIn IPO
- Unveiling NextView Ventures
- Groupon / Google – NYT Got It Nearly All Wrong
- Boom or Bubble? The Boom Case
- What’s the Difference Between a Super Angel, Micro VC, and a VC?
- Looking for Tom Brady
- The Flywheel of Great Partnerships
- The Magical Deck – Why Investors Like Slides
- Large VC’s as Seed Investors – Friend or Foe?
- The Institutionalization of Social Games… Get Used to It
- When Valuation Doesn’t Matter
- Thoughts on Open Angel Forum – Boston
- The Quick “No” Manifesto
- Same show, new channel
- Swipely and “Will People Do ___ Online?”
- Changes… my transition & new plans
- More Content Soon…
- PayPal Never Could Have Been Built Lean
- Fat vs Lean – You’re Both Right
- The “Patzer Problem”: Outcomes & Expectations
- “Cliff Notes” S-1s (Part II): Gamefly
- “Cliff Notes” S-1s (Part I): Quinstreet
- 2010: Year of the IPO
- Avoiding the “I’m Here Now What?” Problem
- How long will the Facebook ad arbitrage last?
- “No Brainer” Startup Acquisitions
- Predicting the Trajectory of Very Early Stage Companies
- You don’t have to be a founder to be an entrepreneur
- Non-linear relationship between cash & life outlook
- VC Funding of NASDAQ 100
- VCs: Enablers? Value Adders? Scourge of the Earth?
- Past Performance is Not Necessarily Indicative…
- Labor analogies for venture capitalists
- The right size VC fund
- The “capital invested” trap
- Real-time: Search or Discovery (or Something Else)?
- Making the illiquid, liquid
- Why micropayments are (still) a terrible idea
- Would Be IPOs in IT / Internet / Digital Media
- Why Google Profiles Won’t Kill Facebook or LinkedIn
- Should VC’s change approach to seed investing based on lower startup capital needs?
- Why VC’s Rarely Say “No” Clearly…
- Pitching an EIR at a VC firm
- Start@Spark – seed investing in Boston/NYC
- Thinking about Incubator 2.0…
- The devlish details of government backed VC
- Critical optimism
- Does VC need radical reinvention?
- Startup liquidity in 2008 was a dry lake… what does ’09 hold?
- Temptations of Young VCs
- Current fundraising climate & metaphors for VC rounds (addendum)
- Metaphors for successive VC funding rounds
- There are only co-founders
- Consumer web & black magic
- The state of our financial system
- Platforms and developers, part three: What platforms like Facebook can do to expand the developer ecosystem
- Platforms and developers, part two: What have the new platforms learned from the old ones?
- Platforms and developers, part one: Are Facebook and Apple doing it wrong?
- Social Networks developed by big companies
- Chrome – the All Seeing Eye of Google?
- China – Where American Brands Get New Life
- There Really is a Social Network for Everything Now
- The Essence of Silicon Valley
- The Introverted Blogger / Twiterrer / Whateverer
- Grim statistics & what they mean for all of us
- Unleashing the promise of behavioral targeting
- Yahoo! cedes search to Google
- Elephants in the room & startup ecosystems
- Pardon the interruption
- Bold VCs and structural limitations to innovation in venture capital
- Happy birthday LinkedIn
- Young Turks & Hot Air in VC
- How do you measure multi-modal apps?
- The Pro Case: reasons to seek venture funding
- Reasons NOT to take venture capital…
- Startup credo
- Video Killed the Radio Star
- The web’s next billion dollar ideas
- NDAs and the value of ideas
- Genius and the 4th dimension
- Internet’s long tail…
- Discovery… the new search?
- Internet 2007: opportunity or bubble?
- Recapitalizations and “money heaven”
- Covering the Boston startup scene
- Consumer tail wagging the enterprise dog
- Brand vs product
- Who said VCs don’t have a sense of humor?
- Crossing the other chasm – VCs as entrepreneurs (and vice versa)
- Internet folks unite
- Tier 2 SNS and ode to entrepreneurs
- Making $$$ on the internet
- The anti-hockey stick
- What a difference a year makes (YouTube)
- A “Big” Deal for MSFT?
- “Moving the Needle” (aka when 3X > 10X)
- What’s in a name?
- VC 2006 & consumer internet
- Round 2
- About Me
