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Sessions Top Ten Insights – Two
Brad Burnham – Oct 28, 2005
Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says,"if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful [...] Read more
Sessions Top Ten Insights – One
Brad Burnham – Oct 27, 2005
As we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these thoughts up on the site over the next week or [...] Read more
Seeking A Super Talented Product/Design Person
Fred Wilson – Oct 26, 2005
One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform.The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies [...] Read more
We don’t “get it”
Brad Burnham – Oct 24, 2005
One of the first posts that came out of Sessions was Joel Spolsky’s comment on architecture astronauts.Joel said.I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite.That's [...] Read more
Peer Production in Action
Fred Wilson – Oct 24, 2005
This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production.This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki.I assumed that Charlie did [...] Read more
Union Square Sessions 1 – Transcript
Fred Wilson – Oct 23, 2005
It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures.The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word [...] Read more