There’s a lot of good suggestions out there for how early stage startups can approach (or improve) board meetings.  Some of my favorites are from Brad Feld (also this one from him), Andy Payne, and Steve Blank.  All three have perspective […]

We’re pleased to announced NextView’s investment in SkyVu Entertainment, along with Lightbank and angel investors.  SkyVu is a mobile game company best known for their hit franchise BATTLE BEARS… a series of shooter type games that are action-oriented with an […]

Zynga’s faced a lot of pressure in the public markets recently.  The company’s lost nearly 80% of its value from the peak earlier this year, in the run up to Facebook’s IPO, and currently trades below $3/share… a fraction of […]

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile”.  Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with […]

Last week I wrote about some of the common factors that have led great VC firms to stumble or even fade from existence entirely.  I wanted to follow-up with some observations of paths to greatness for a select group of […]

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms.  NextView’s still in […]

Today Cloze has started to talk more publicly about their funding and also is starting to open their product more broadly.  The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity […]

Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized.  At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or […]

Apple and Facebook are both platforms, in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses.  In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 billion to developers and Apple paid out something […]

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped.  Silly stuff like this. […]