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Failure Rates In Early Stage Venture Deals
Fred Wilson – Nov 29, 2007
My friend Jeff Jarvis invited me to talk to his class yesterday. Jeff is doing something really cool. He’s teaching graduate students in journalism school how to be entrepreneurs. So these students graduate with the understanding that they have another [...] Read more
Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class
Fred Wilson – Nov 26, 2007
I wrote a series of blog posts about venture capital fund performance on my personal weblog several weeks ago. One of the things that came out of that series is the fact that the top quartile of fund managers performs [...] Read more
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Andrew Parker – Oct 23, 2007
I have many locations on the internet where I can point to and say "that's a piece of me." There are a number of web services on which I output for my various modes of perception. The music I listen [...] Read more
Markets and Philanthropy
Brad Burnham – Oct 22, 2007
It has been three weeks since we hosted a group of technologists and philanthropists to talk about the impact of technology on philanthropy. I have now had a chance to go back through the transcript and to reflect on some [...] Read more
Hacking Philanthropy – The Transcript
Brad Burnham – Oct 5, 2007
Here is the transcript for the Hacking Philanthropy Sessions event. It was a tough assignment for the transcriptionist. It was a large room where 40 high powered people were firing ideas back and forth without microphones. So despite a heroic [...] Read more
Union Square Sessions 3: Hacking Philanthropy
Andrew Parker – Sep 26, 2007
Every so often Union Square Ventures brings together a small group for a day-long conversation about the interplay between technology and society. We call these conversations Union Square Sessions. Yesterday, we hosted a conversation entitled "Hacking Philanthropy." Hacking is used [...] Read more