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The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation
Brad Burnham – Jun 23, 2011
As venture capitalists, we believe deeply in the value of decentralized, emergent, start-up innovation. The Internet has been an unusually fertile ground for this type of innovation largely because, for the first time in history, it has been possible to [...] 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
Through the Looking Glass into the Net Neutrality Debate
Brad Burnham – Jul 11, 2006
There is this wonderful Alice in Wonderland quality to the current Net Neutrality debate. Listening to the rhetoric, one s to feel that up is, in fact, down and down is up. The innovative high growth applications companies like Amazon, [...] Read more
Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?
Fred Wilson – Jul 7, 2006
At our recent Union Square Sessions event, we discussed three primary topics relating to public policy and innovation; net neutrality, copyrights, and patents. In this post, I'll try to summarize the patent discussion and highlight some of the most interesting [...] Read more