I am a cofounder and Partner at NextView Ventures, a seed stage venture capital investment firm focused on internet-enabled innovation. My focus is to work with founding entrepreneurs seeking expertise and a seed round of institutional capital, with the aim of together building great digital media internet companies. We at NextView currently have a broad portfolio of consumer web, mobile, SaaS, and enabling-layer internet startups. I also am founder and organizer of the Web Innovators Group, an organization which holds quarterly events which bring together nearly a thousand people in the web and mobile entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition, I actively blog at GenuineVC.com. Prior to NextView, I was a Vice President at Venrock, an early stage VC firm originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. While at Venrock, I served on the boards of portfolio investments Gazelle (fka Second Rotation) and BlogHer, and was actively involved with the firms investment in Appnexus. Previously I served as a Principal at Masthead Venture Partners where I helped lead an investment in Expo TV, and was an integral member of the team for our investments in Tremor Media and NewsGator. Prior to joining Masthead, I co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company best known for its flagship property BargainDog.com, which I grew to M registered members. Sombasa was successfully acquired by About.com, which was soon after acquired by Primedia (NYSE PRM), where I served as Vice President of Marketing. My educational background includes an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University. Specialties Internet, digital media, online marketing, digital imaging, ad tech, seed capital, e-commerce, marketplaces, early-stage venture capital, consumer software. read more ...
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