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What I want from Bug Labs
Brad Burnham – Sep 6, 2007
The wraps have started to come off of Bug Labs. Their site is now up and they have begun an active dialogue with enthusiasts that is shaping their design and their development priorities. We invested in Bug Labs because everything [...] Read more
Fred Wilson – Jul 25, 2007
The Internet is largely a communications medium. It's also used for content distribution, commerce, and a number of other things. But the thing I do most on the Internet is communicate. Via email, Skype, instant messaging, blogging, commenting, and twittering. [...] Read more
AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA
Brad Burnham – Jul 23, 2007
We are pleased to announce today that AOL/Time Warner has agreed to buy our portfolio company TACODA. As is always the case with a company you have worked with for years, our excitement for the founders and management team about [...] Read more
Clickable
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2007
Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner [...] Read more
Wesabe Is More Than A “Personal” Financial Service
Brad Burnham – Jun 20, 2007
Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much happens. Writely [...] Read more
FeedBurner Is Acquired by Google
Fred Wilson – May 30, 2007
This is hardly a surprise since rumors of this deal have been all over the blog world for the better part of the past month. But it is true that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The price has not [...] Read more
TargetSpot
Fred Wilson – Apr 23, 2007
I’ve spent a lot of time in the past eight years working with the radio broadcast industry on the conversion of their business from analog to digital. That work is largely related to my role as a director and financial [...] Read more
Outside.in
Fred Wilson – Feb 23, 2007
One form of media that hasn't yet been well executed on the Internet is local media. Yes, local search is available, and Google's offering in this area has become very good recently. Local classifieds are also all over the Internet, [...] Read more
Oddcast
Charlie O'Donnell – Jun 13, 2006
Last week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors.Oddcast is the leading developer of web-based avatars for businesses and consumers.For some time now, we have been thinking [...] Read more