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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:10:57 -0800

My LinkedIn Avatar
I saw this tweet from Charlie O'Donnell yesterday: LinkedIn pulled avatars of @laughingsquid @fredwilson @hunterwalk and me...
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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:30:34 -0800

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...
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:39:37 -0800

The Story Of My Avatar
I saw this tweet when I got up this morning: hey @fredwilson - whats the story behind ur avatar? While longtime readers know...
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:30:21 -0800

Anatomy Of A Big Day On AVC
I generally take a quick run through audience stats every morning. I saw this chart and thought "hmm, big day yesterday, why...
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:45:21 -0800

Ten Meetings Per Day
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...
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:06:45 -0800

APIs In The Late Afternoon
After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:46 -0800

The Double Opt-In Introduction
I'm sure everyone out there gets email intros. Someone who knows you sends you and someone you don't know an email suggesting...
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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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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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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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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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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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