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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:51:37 -0800

The Power Of Instant Approval
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...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:33:00 -0800

My Social Recruiting Summit Keynote Talk
On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote. I spent this morning assembling them into...
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bfeld posted a blog entry

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:16:26 -0800

DIA Backlit By A Rising Sun
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:37:49 -0800

Twitter List iPhone Apps
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...
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bfeld posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:35:22 -0800

I Want More Information, Not Less
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:43:24 -0800

Social Recruiting
I'm giving the keynote talk at the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC on Monday. I've been working on my presentation over the...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:46:43 -0800

Tracked.com Gets More Social
I posted about our portfolio company Tracked.com a few weeks ago. In that post, I said: Tracked.com is social. Users have a...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:24:56 -0800

Conferences (continued)
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...
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Richard_Dale posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:47:00 -0800

Chief Common Sense Officer
Dennis Devlin is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Brandeis University. I met Dennis a few years ago when he had the...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:23:26 -0800

Startup Ecosystems Take Time
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...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:03:32 -0800

The New USV.com Launches In Beta
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....
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:45:16 -0800

The AVC Reader Census: A Day Later
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...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:05:16 -0800

The AVC Reader Census
We (Nathan and me) added a new widget to this blog yesterday. It's on the right sidebar above the Flickr photo widget. The...
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Richard_Dale posted a blog entry

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:40:00 -0800

VC:VC Social Entrepreneurship
I have an occasional series of blog postings I call my VC:VC series in which I compare my venture cyclist and venture capital...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:32:22 -0800

Valuation and Option Pool
One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early...
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Richard_Dale posted a blog entry

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:57:00 -0800

Meaningful Use
The federal stimulus bill provides nearly $20 billion in incentives for physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers to...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:22:22 -0800

Great Meetup Last Night
About a hundred readers of this blog gathered last night in the cafeteria of Washington Irving High School just off of Union...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:06:50 -0800

Throw The Bums Out
I drove out to the middle of New Jersey yesterday morning to attend a board meeting. Everywhere I went, I saw "dump corzine"...
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Richard_Dale posted a blog entry

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:27:00 -0800

Tis better to travel hopefully than to arrive
I had a great bike ride with friends on Sunday morning. With the clocks changing in favor of an early start we duly set off at...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:36:20 -0800

Thematic vs Thesis Driven Investing
As the venture business has grown and matured, many firms have developed specific areas of focus. Our firm, Union Square...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:27:21 -0800

The Donors Choose Threepeat Is Complete
We did it, for the third year in a row, this blog has won the tech blog category of the donors choose blogger challenge. Most...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:39:01 -0700

Two New Ways To Find A Better Place To Stay On The Road
My partner Albert said this a week or two ago on his blog: When people ask me whether investing in web services is a long-term...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:56 -0700

Slow Capital
Last friday my partner Brad attended a company offsite for our portfolio company Meetup.com. On monday of this week during our...
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Fred Wilson posted a blog entry

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:25:14 -0700

"Audio Preview" Is A Bad User Experience
I read the Google blog post announcing their enhancements to music searches this morning. I think it's terrific that Google...
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Jkopelman posted a blog entry

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:35:41 -0700

VC - Back to the Future?
I just came across a great report by Industry Little Hawk entitled the Venture Capital Rebound (pdf). In the report, the...
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