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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
Metrics
Fred Wilson – Oct 15, 2005
We like to make our initial investment sometime between the formation of a business and the first dollar of revenue coming in the door. Sometimes that time period lasts a while. In the interim, how do you monitor how an [...] Read more
Founders
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2005
I just finished John Battelle's The Search.It's a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and the internet.One of the things I that I enjoyed most in the book was John's comparison [...] Read more
Audience Management
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
What is Audience Management? It's the ability to track your audience and customers, know who they are, what they like, how they behave, etc. Done right, it can allow a business to improve its relationship with its customers and potential [...] Read more
del.icio.us
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
I didn't plan on posting anything about Union Square Ventures' most recent investment, del.icio.us. The founder, Joshua Schachter, posted twice to his list about the investment and I figure that is pretty much the whole story. If you want the [...] Read more
Indeed
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising our fund, we used to talk a lot about web services that should exist but don’t. One of Brad’s favorites was “paid job search.” Brad would say that job [...] Read more
Impact Media
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
For the past 50 years, the media equation has most often been solved for the largest audience.That is changing and its happening pretty quickly, brought on largely by digital media.I think the media equation is going to get solved for [...] Read more
Downturns
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
The morning paper this morning is not a pretty picture. New Orleans is flooded. Large swaths of the southeast are down and out. Energy prices are spiking. The war in Iraq shows no sign of ending anytime soon. Interest rates [...] Read more
Wikis
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2005
Some things take longer than others for me. I was quick to grok the blogging thing, reading them, writing them, etc. I was pretty quick to grok the podcasting and vlogging things too. RSS made sense to me immediately. But [...] Read more