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Turntable
Fred Wilson – Sep 13, 2011
Sometimes you end up loving something you don't want to. When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login button that I didn't want to use. There was another music service I didn't want to add [...] Read more
Wattpad
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2011
Stories have been with us probably as long as language has, and the need for stories appears deeply rooted in all of us. We have come a long way from quite literally sitting around a fire to sophisticated technologies such [...] Read more
Jig – When You Need A Little Help
Albert Wenger – Sep 6, 2011
When we first announced our investment in what was then called Tasty Labs we provided no indication as to what the team was building. That's because they were just getting going on a problem that Joshua had been thinking about [...] Read more
Skillshare
Albert Wenger – Aug 16, 2011
The Internet has been an amazing platform for creating and distributing educational content. Khan Academy has become the canonical example cited here but terrific free content is emerging from many different sources such as the Open Courseware initiative and even [...] Read more
Lending Club
John Buttrick – Aug 3, 2011
Have you ever wondered why a bank charges an 18+% interest rate on credit card balances (regardless of credit history), but only pays depositors 1% on their balance? These are fantastic economics for bank management and bank stockholders, but not [...] Read more
The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation
Brad Burnham – Jun 23, 2011
As venture capitalists, we believe deeply in the value of decentralized, emergent, start-up innovation. The Internet has been an unusually fertile ground for this type of innovation largely because, for the first time in history, it has been possible to [...] Read more