For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated.  On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at […]

VC investors take different approaches to finding new investments.  I tend to think of it as a continuum with purely thematic investing at one end and a purely opportunistic approach at the other. Thematic investing is where VCs research a […]

Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today.  NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s […]

As many of you may know, we have a section on the NextView website called “Ethos” where we describe five key principles to how we operate.  My partners and I have blogged about some of these including Invited Guest, Golazo, […]

I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see […]

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web: commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006.  But I still firmly believe […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]