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Protecting Business
I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too.
They were streaming the event so I ...
Software
I saw this tweet when I got up this morning: hey @ fredwilson - whats the story behind ur avatar?
While longtime readers know it, I figure many of you don't. So here it goes.
Starting about four years ago, Howard Lindzon started commenting actively on this blog. He was funny, he ...
Online
I generally take a quick run through audience stats every morning. I saw this chart and thought "hmm, big day yesterday, why is that?" So I went to google analytics, which confirmed the big day. And then I went to the makeup of the traffic: Like most big days on AVC, it was referring ...
Online
Techmeme
I was explaining how I go about finding deals yesterday to a friend of mine and I thought I ought to explain it to everyone. I write this blog. It's like a broadcast channel of "what is interesting to me." I market it every way I know how and I get somewhere between 70k to 100k unique readers ...
Other
After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business of APIs conference . In the cab, I opened socialscope on my blackberry to check into twitter and saw this tweet from my partner Albert : Love APIs -- so excited ...
Online
Back in the early days of web video, it wasn't clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video. I tried all of them. YouTube was by far and away the best experience. Google Video required you to wait for days to see the ...
Online
YouTube
Apple
On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote.
I spent this morning assembling them into a deck that I'll use in my talk tomorrow. Here's a final draft. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions/critiques/copy edits, please leave ...
Other
On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote.
I spent this morning assembling them into a deck that I'll use in my talk tomorrow. Here's a final draft. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions/critiques/copy edits, please leave ...
Other
When my son Josh got Tweetie on his iPhone, he simply went to Twitter.com and found every NBA player he could think of, found out if they had a verified account, and if they did, he followed them. That was his follow list (along with me and the gothamal ). But now with Twitter lists, it could ...
Online
iPhone
Tweetie
I'm giving the keynote talk at the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC on Monday. I've been working on my presentation over the past few days and some themes are worth talking about. 1) Since we started Union Square Ventures in 2003/2004, we have only been involved with one retained search. Our ...
Online
I posted about our portfolio company Tracked.com a few weeks ago . In that post, I said: Tracked.com is social. Users have a profile in the service and can send
messages to each other in the service (and via twitter and facebook
very shortly). Objects in the service (news, quotes, charts, ...
Online
I don't like to go to conferences. I explained why in this post . But every once in a while I do attend one. Ideally it's a smallish gathering on a specific topic that I am interested in. I'm doing that over the next couple days in Denver at Defrag . Defrag is a conference about mining data for ...
Other
avc.com - 11 days ago
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Saul Klein, co-founder of Seedcamp and one of
the top VCs in europe, has a long and
thoughtful post up on the evolution of Seedcamp . In it he says: In my mind, helping to bring some cohesion to our region's distributed network of talent, capital ...
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Startup Ecosystems Take Time
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found this 11 days agofound this
Taking a cue from the advice we give to companies all the time, we've just launched the new USV.com in beta form last night. It still has a few kinks to get out, but it is mostly there. When Brad and I first thought about our firm's website back in 2004, we quickly decided it should be a ...
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Almost 750 people took the AVC Reader Census/Survey in the past 24 hours. That's a decent sample size. So if you want to know what the readership of this blog looks like, go here .
I'm sorry to say that it is overwhelmingly male, 92% of the respondents are men. I'm also disappointed that 75% ...
Other
We ( Nathan and me) added a new widget to this blog yesterday. It's on the right sidebar above the Flickr photo widget. The purpose of this widget is to answer a few questions about the people who read this blog.
If you wish, you can take the survey right here on this post. &&& ...
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Flickr
avc.com - 12 days ago
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One of the more contentious things in the
negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a
financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation. As my friend Mark Pincus likes to say, ...
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Valuation and Option Pool
About a hundred readers of this blog gathered last night in the cafeteria of Washington Irving High School just off of Union Square in Manhattan to meet each other and celebrate the generosity of this community in the recent Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge .
It was a great moment for me. I ...
Other
avc.com - 17 days ago
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I drove out to the middle of New
Jersey yesterday morning to attend a board meeting. Everywhere
I went, I saw "dump corzine" messages. It was clear the governor was in trouble. And this morning, we wake up to the news that Corzine has indeed been dumped and Mayor Bloomberg barely got 50% ...
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Throw The Bums Out
I'm sure everyone out there gets email intros. Someone who knows you sends you and someone you don't know an email suggesting you meet. I send emails like that a lot. I might send a half a dozen or more every day. I get even more emails like that. Sometimes dozens a day. And I'd like to propose ...
