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Our Customer Is The Entrepreneur
Fred Wilson – Nov 12, 2005
Many of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds).We've always thought that was wrong.The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That's the [...] Read more
Sessions Top Ten Insights – Six Reputations Are Not Portable
Brad Burnham – Nov 9, 2005
There was a lot of talk at Sessions about trust. The word appears 33 times in the transcript. Jeff Jarvis mentioned it 11 times himself. Here, Jeff makes the point that value is shifting from content to trust. “And so [...] Read more
Sessions Top Ten Insights – Five
Brad Burnham – Nov 5, 2005
One of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how adding money undermines social motivations depending on contentsI am not sure how to [...] Read more
Will Live Kill?
Fred Wilson – Nov 4, 2005
I posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other day.It fostered some good discussion in the comments section of that [...] Read more
Sessions Top Ten Insights – Four
Brad Burnham – Nov 3, 2005
Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion...Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal…“Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that's implicit, unfortunately, is that [...] Read more
Sessions Top Ten Insights – Three
Brad Burnham – Nov 2, 2005
Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week.Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that "What does an abundance of information create?" [...] Read more