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Early Stage Investing
Fred Wilson – Sep 19, 2006
I thought I'd lead off my series of posts on "other things we look for" with a discussion of our preference for early stage investing. Most of our investment approach is built on top of our foundation as early stage [...] Read more
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
Brad Burnham – Sep 18, 2006
When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and more likely that 20 years from now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Cingular and T-Mobile will [...] Read more
Other Things We Look For
Fred Wilson – Sep 6, 2006
Last month Brad wrote a series of posts on the things we look for in our investments. Those posts are archived here. As Brad said in his introduction to those posts:A year ago when we first re-launched our web site [...] Read more
Welcome Andrew Parker
Brad Burnham – Aug 17, 2006
A few weeks ago we mentioned that we were looking for the right person to replace Charlie, who had left us to take a product management position at Oddcast. Prior to this post, we had informally reached out to a [...] Read more
Business Development 2.0
Fred Wilson – Aug 17, 2006
It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in search of deals that bring traffic, users, additional functionality, revenue, and a host of [...] Read more
Scalability
Brad Burnham – Aug 11, 2006
One of the common concerns about IT enabled services generally and web services specifically is that they do not have the potential to scale. When the focus of venture capital was on IT infrastructure, this criticism was often voiced as [...] Read more