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Advisory Capital
Fred Wilson – Feb 23, 2006
Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital).Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. [...] Read more
Research and Development
Brad Burnham – Feb 15, 2006
Is it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development.For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from here [...] Read more
Why We Invested in FeedBurner
Fred Wilson – Feb 7, 2006
Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story:Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights.We met the Company shortly after it was [...] Read more
Feedburner
Fred Wilson – Feb 6, 2006
Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today.We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have been [...] Read more
Mathematics – How much is enough
Brad Burnham – Feb 2, 2006
I did not study a lot of science in high school so this reference to mathematics is likely to be my last effort to come up with a model from high school science that sheds light on the evolution of [...] Read more
Web 2.0 is an Oxymoron
Fred Wilson – Feb 1, 2006
I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting.It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter from [...] Read more