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Finding And Buying A Domain Name
Fred Wilson – Apr 28, 2011
I believe that a good domain name is an important success factor in building and launching consumer web services. It's not in my top ten but it could be. It's certainly something we think about a lot when making investments [...] Read more
How To Allocate Founder and Employee Equity
Fred Wilson – Apr 14, 2011
Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Stack Exchange, posted an excellent answer to the question in the title of this post on the Stack site OnStartups. I'm not going to reblog the entire answer here. I'd encourage [...] Read more
M&A Issues: Price
Fred Wilson – Apr 4, 2011
This is my final MBA Mondays post on M&A Issues. I've been posting about M&A since last December. It feels like a semester long effort. And frankly I'm a bit tired of talking about M&A every monday. But selling your [...] Read more
No MBA Mondays Today
Fred Wilson – Mar 28, 2011
I've spent the past two days in airports and on airplanes. I was hoping to write my MBA Mondays post for today on the flight yesterday. But there was no wifi or power. I punted and watched VCU beat Kansas [...] Read more
Kickstarter
Fred Wilson – Mar 17, 2011
In the fall of 2009, we met the founding team at Kickstarter. Perry, Yancey, and Charles had built a marketplace where anyone could fund and follow creativity of all kinds. We were immediately taken with the team and the idea.We [...] Read more
Airbnb
Fred Wilson – Mar 16, 2011
obama_oj Originally uploaded by charmaine_cooper. When you walk into our conference room at Union Square Ventures, you see the box of cereal on the right on our conference room credenza next to a wifi router and a jar of Jolly [...] Read more
M&A Issues: Timing
Fred Wilson – Mar 14, 2011
Yet another post in the M&A Issues series. This one is about timing, ie how long it should take from the first serious conversation about a sale transaction until the closing. I've seen acquisitions done in a week. I've seen [...] Read more
Kik
Fred Wilson – Mar 6, 2011
At Union Square Ventures, we seek to invest in large networks of engaged users. And we believe that the new beachhead for creating large networks is the mobile device.When you look at the engaged user on the mobile device, the [...] Read more
M&A Issues: The Stay Package
Fred Wilson – Feb 7, 2011
We continue our discussion of M&A Issues this week on MBA Mondays. Today we are going to talk about the "stay package." When a company acquires your business, they are buying the people as much as anything. Experience has shown [...] Read more