By Fred Wilson—Aug 12, 2013

A serial entrepreneur I know tells me "you will turn your team three times on the way from startup to a business of scale." What he means is that the initial team will depart, replaced by another team, which in turn will be replaced by yet another team. I have been closely involved with over […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 5, 2013

I finally picked up the Isaacson book on Steve Jobs. Figured enough time has passed to give the proper amount of perspective. It must be a big book because I've spent the past two weekends on it and I am only 50% through according to the Kindle app. As an aside, I am reading it […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 1, 2013

For the past few years, I've been using a third party service called Pandamian to power a table of contents for MBA Mondays. They've been awesome to work with but the honest truth is I would prefer to have this thing run natively on AVC and point to MBA Mondays posts on AVC. What I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jul 8, 2013

AVC regular William Mougayar is building an education oriented community for entrepreneurs called Startup Management. He soft launched it in the past week. The idea, as I understand it, is to aggregate and tag blog posts about startup management from all around the web and curate them into a […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jul 1, 2013

In the comments to Valuation vs Ownership, Mike Nolan said: Just today I talked with an entrepreneur developing a SAAS in an educational space. His questioned focused on how to set up his first LLC and be prepared for funding rounds. As usual, I recommend reading past articles on AVC.com for a look […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jun 17, 2013

My post on Product>Strategy>Business Model got a lot of comments and other reactions out there on the social web and from that I realized that many confuse strategy and tactics. And so I thought I would attempt to define strategy in business. I like this definition that I got at wikipedia: […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)