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We don’t “get it”
Brad Burnham – Oct 24, 2005
One of the first posts that came out of Sessions was Joel Spolsky’s comment on architecture astronauts.Joel said.I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite.That's [...] Read more
Peer Production in Action
Fred Wilson – Oct 24, 2005
This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production.This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki.I assumed that Charlie did [...] Read more
Union Square Sessions 1 – Transcript
Fred Wilson – Oct 23, 2005
It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures.The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word [...] Read more
Union Square Sessions 1 – Photos
Charlie O'Donnell – Oct 20, 2005
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Union Square Sessions 1 – Peer Production
Charlie O'Donnell – Oct 20, 2005
Today we hosted the first of what we hope will be many conversations about the impact of information technology on our society, our economy and on the business of venture capital. The subject of this "session" was peer production. We [...] Read more
Management Case, Base Case and Worst Case
Fred Wilson – Oct 20, 2005
Early stage venture capital investing is not really a numbers oriented business.Its much more important to have a feel for technology, markets, and people than numbers.But there are times when numbers are important.Two of the most important times you want [...] Read more