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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 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 ...

From FRED WILSON, Silicon Alley Insider,  18 Nov 2009

Tracked.com Gets More Social

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, public filings, companies, people) can be sent ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Conferences (continued)

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 insight, with a focus ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  11 Nov 2009

Startup Ecosystems Take Time

In my mind, helping to bring some cohesion to our region's distributed network of talent, capital and is a 15-20 year project. ...... Getting to the right point takes time, and the cycles that kicked off what we now know as Silicon Valley began nearly 5 ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Arthur Rock,  Oracle,  Microsoft Corporation,  Facebook Inc.

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. 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 ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Boxee

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 what the readership of this blog looks like, go here. I'm sorry to say that it is overwhelmingly male, 92% of the respondents ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  8 Nov 2009

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 stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation. As my friend Mark Pincus likes to say, "it's ...

From FRED WILSON, Silicon Alley Insider,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Pincus

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 Square in Manhattan to meet each other and celebrate the generosity of this community in the recent Donors Choose Bloggers ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  5 Nov 2009

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 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. ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  3 Nov 2009

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 Ventures, for example only invests in web services. I believe this is a good thing for both the investors in venture funds, called ...

From FRED WILSON, The Industry Standard,  2 Nov 2009

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