Fred via A VC on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the readmore
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Change I'd Like To See
Fred via A VC on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the readmore
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Fred via A VC on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the readmore
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Change I'd Like To See
Fred via A VC on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the readmore
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Fred via A VC on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the readmore
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Axes To Grind
Fred via A VC on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Having and "axe to grind" is a phrase that means you've got a dispute to take up with someone or possibly an ulterior motive. I've seen and/or participated in several such axes in the past 24 hours and it's gotten me thinking that the Internet, email, blogging, etc is a particularly great way to grind such axes. readmore
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Fred via A VC on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Having and "axe to grind" is a phrase that means you've got a dispute to take up with someone or possibly an ulterior motive. I've seen and/or participated in several such axes in the past 24 hours and it's gotten me thinking that the Internet, email, blogging, etc is a particularly great way to grind such axes. readmore
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Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions
Fred via A VC on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
I followed two twitter bots during the Olympics, 08olympics and twittolympic. They were both great and I want to thank the people who put them together and operated them. I got more olympics news from these two b readmore
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Fred via A VC on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
I followed two twitter bots during the Olympics, 08olympics and twittolympic. They were both great and I want to thank the people who put them together and operated them. I got more olympics news from these two b readmore
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Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions
Fred via A VC on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
I followed two twitter bots during the Olympics, 08olympics and twittolympic. They were both great and I want to thank the people who put them together and operated them. I got more olympics news from these two b readmore
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Fred via A VC on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
I followed two twitter bots during the Olympics, 08olympics and twittolympic. They were both great and I want to thank the people who put them together and operated them. I got more olympics news from these two b readmore
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Reblogging Comments
Fred via A VC on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
If you visited this blog over the weekend you saw this post which looks like this: readmore
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Fred via A VC on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
If you visited this blog over the weekend you saw this post which looks like this: readmore
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Venture Fund Economics: Allocating Follow-On Capital
Fred via A VC on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
It's time for another entry in my Venture Fund Economics series. This time I'd like to talk about the importance of allocating follow-on capital. One of the great things about early stage venture capital, as compared to many other investment disciplines, is that you get to build your position in the company over time, sometimes over a very long (5-7 year) period. So this allows readmore
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Fred via A VC on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
It's time for another entry in my Venture Fund Economics series. This time I'd like to talk about the importance of allocating follow-on capital. One of the great things about early stage venture capital, as compared to many other investment disciplines, is that you get to build your position in the company over time, sometimes over a very long (5-7 year) period. So this allows readmore
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Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away
Fred via A VC on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
The title of this post is a line in a Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) song that I heard on my bike ride this morning. You can click on the black banner at the bottom of the screen and hear it play while you read this. And it took me back to an email exchange that I've been having this week wit readmore
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Fred via A VC on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
The title of this post is a line in a Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) song that I heard on my bike ride this morning. You can click on the black banner at the bottom of the screen and hear it play while you read this. And it took me back to an email exchange that I've been having this week wit readmore
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Crunchbase SMS Interface
Fred via A VC on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
Fred, for the Crunchbase link via SMS, text "cbsms tumblr" OR "cbsms fred wilson" to 41411. The SMS bot will send you a link to the most relevant page on Crunchbase for any search term that follows "cbsms" (Crunchbase SMS)... companies, people, financial institutions, whatever. Russell, very cool! I'm not a developer, but it took readmore
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Fred via A VC on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
Fred, for the Crunchbase link via SMS, text "cbsms tumblr" OR "cbsms fred wilson" to 41411. The SMS bot will send you a link to the most relevant page on Crunchbase for any search term that follows "cbsms" (Crunchbase SMS)... companies, people, financial institutions, whatever. Russell, very cool! I'm not a developer, but it took readmore
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Friends and Neighbors
Fred via A VC on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
We are all used to the idea of friends in social nets. It's not entirely clear to me what a "friend" in the context of a social net is and it's getting more confusing all the time. But neighbors is something I can get my head around. I know what a neighbor is. I've been loving the newly redesigned last.fm lately. I have readmore
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Fred via A VC on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
We are all used to the idea of friends in social nets. It's not entirely clear to me what a "friend" in the context of a social net is and it's getting more confusing all the time. But neighbors is something I can get my head around. I know what a neighbor is. I've been loving the newly redesigned last.fm lately. I have readmore
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VC Tip Of The Day
Fred via A VC on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Last week I saw my friend Bryce, a partner at OATV in readmore
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Fred via A VC on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Last week I saw my friend Bryce, a partner at OATV in readmore
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Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone
Fred via A VC on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the name of readmore
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Fred via A VC on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the name of readmore
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Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone
Fred via A VC on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the nam readmore
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Fred via A VC on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the nam readmore
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When You Wake Up Feeling Old
Fred via A VC on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
Yesterday I posted about youth and inexperience. Today I am going to post about getting old. Because I am 47 today and getting close to the age where I have always thought venture capitalists start to fade. I got into this business young, too young. And readmore
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Fred via A VC on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
Yesterday I posted about youth and inexperience. Today I am going to post about getting old. Because I am 47 today and getting close to the age where I have always thought venture capitalists start to fade. I got into this business young, too young. And readmore
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The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation
Fred via A VC on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of al readmore
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Fred via A VC on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of al readmore
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Brad Talks To The Deal
Fred via A VC on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
When you read this blog, you are getting the thoughts and ideas of not just me, but really of all my colleagues at Union Square Ventures. It's impossible to separate what are my ideas and what are the ideas of our firm. There's no better example of that than my partner Brad, who I founded Union Square Ventures with in 2003. Brad writes a fair amount readmore
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Fred via A VC on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
When you read this blog, you are getting the thoughts and ideas of not just me, but really of all my colleagues at Union Square Ventures. It's impossible to separate what are my ideas and what are the ideas of our firm. There's no better example of that than my partner Brad, who I founded Union Square Ventures with in 2003. Brad writes a fair amount readmore
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Constraints and Rules
Fred via A VC on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more. I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone. The Facebook app ecosystem is one proof point of this approach. Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, founders of readmore
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Fred via A VC on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more. I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone. The Facebook app ecosystem is one proof point of this approach. Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, founders of readmore
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The Dream Phone
Fred via A VC on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
It seems that a lot of people in tech land are down on Android these days. My friend Howard sent this update via twitter last night: Google has another blind spot and a black hole of money - Android - absolute disaster brewingI don't share that point of view readmore
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Fred via A VC on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
It seems that a lot of people in tech land are down on Android these days. My friend Howard sent this update via twitter last night: Google has another blind spot and a black hole of money - Android - absolute disaster brewingI don't share that point of view readmore
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Etsy Needs A VP of Product
Fred via A VC on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
Image via CrunchBase There are some companies that readmore
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Fred via A VC on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
Image via CrunchBase There are some companies that readmore
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