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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:44:32 -0800

Merry Christmas Everyone
I'm taking the day off from blogging. I'll be back tomorrow and for the next few days with my top music picks of 2009 and the...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:52:41 -0800

Buenos Aires
OBELISCO- AV.9 DE JULIO Originally uploaded by Tres Monedas. I'm in Buenos Aires for the week on a family vacation. The Gotham...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:14:51 -0800

Thoughts on Blackberry Fail
As most Blackberry users know, there was a large failure of the Blackberry network yesterday. I experienced it although it...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:56:36 -0800

End of Year Music Posts
It is a tradition here on AVC to do a top ten albums of the year post. I've been doing it ever since I started blogging back...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:15:15 -0800

Getting Computer Science Into Middle School
My two girls finished middle school without ever learning how to write a single line of code. My son will finish middle school...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:21:44 -0800

Trading Deals, A Lost Art?
Bijan wrote a good post yesterday called We Gotta Do A Deal Together in which he outlined the common practice of VC's showing...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:12:24 -0800

How To Get Me To Hang Up On You
The Gotham Gal told me a story this morning about picking up the phone yesterday and hearing an assistant say: So and so is...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:53:30 -0800

Open APIs and Open Standards
As Dave Winer has been pointing out in recent weeks, there is something quite interesting happening in the...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:05:46 -0800

From Scans To Listens
For years the number that musicians and their business partners, managers and record labels, would focus on was the soundscan...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:58:38 -0800

Tenacity
Mark Suster (one of the best VC blogs) has a post up on Tenacity. He says: Tenacity is probably the most important attribute in...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:12:00 -0800

Comments Will Be Closed After Two Weeks
One thing I've noticed over the years is that most comments on posts over a couple weeks old tend to be comment spam. Disqus...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:02:53 -0800

What Matters Now
Seth Godin has published a free ebook called What Matters Now. He describes the inspiration for the book in this blog post:...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:37:17 -0800

Why Social Beats Search
That's a controversial post headline and I don't mean that social will always beat search, but there's a rising chorus out...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:03:55 -0800

The Unlocked Phone Movement Gets A Big Boost
Mobile phones here in the US are sold by carriers and often locked down so that the device and the network are hard wired to...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:59:11 -0800

Looking For Software Engineers
I posted about our portfolio company Outside.in earlier this week. In the past month, they've closed a big new financing,...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:52:10 -0800

Action Oriented
I never worry about action, but only inaction. - Winston Churchill It's cheating to start a blog post with a quote from...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:56:23 -0800

Lupe Fiasco's Enemy Of The State Mixtape: A Study In Music Business Models
My daughter turned me onto Lupe Fiasco a couple weeks ago. When I start listening to a new artist, I often will go to the Hype...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:44:14 -0800

Vevo: First Thoughts
So Google and the music industry have teamed up to create Vevo, which aims to corral all music videos into a separate part of...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:04:14 -0800

Hyperlocal Goes Mainstream: CNN teams up with Outside.in
I've been interested in the hyperlocal blogging movement since I started blogging. Once you have your own printing press, you...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:46:38 -0800

The Extendable Browser: Chrome
For the past few months, I've been keeping two browsers open at the same time, Firefox and Chrome. I use Chrome for Gmail and...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:00:42 -0800

Save and Invest
Yesterday morning I attended the annual meeting of the NYC Partnership. The NYC Partnership is the "chamber of commerce" for...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:41:14 -0800

The HR Acquisition
When most people think of the HR acquisition, they think of a big public company, like Google or Yahoo!, picking up a small...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:06:21 -0800

Public Policy and Venture Capital
I did a "Room For Debate" on the New York Times yesterday with Ken Auletta and John Markoff. Here's the first part and...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:58:45 -0800

The Herd Instinct
One of things that always amazes me about investors is the way we move in herds. Developing markets are in, everyone invests in...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:49:25 -0800

Stuck In The Middle With You
John Heilemann has a cover story in the current issue of NY Magazine titled Obama Lost, Obama Found in which he details the...
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