A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonSo today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about something useful – Generating sales leads on a small budget. Every startup that wants to sell something runs into this challenge. I asked Russell Sachs, who runs sales for our portfolio company WorkMarket to tell us how they do it. And this is what […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy. The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, then figure out the business model. Getting product right means finding product […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonBack in the early days of AVC, I did a thing called VC Cliche Of The Week. There was an RSS feed of all of them powered by Delicious, but it is broken and most likely can't be fixed. You can find some of them on gawk.it. One of the cliches I posted about is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it. Back in 2004, early in my blogging career, I heard about a service that had just launched called Feedburner. It provided a number […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe have been thinking about and looking to make an investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem for several years. Today, we are happy to be able to talk about our first investment in the sector. We have made an investment in Coinbase along with our friends at Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and Funders Club. We […] Read more
Fred WilsonI told this story in the comments to saturday's video post, but since not everyone reads the comments and I want this to make it into MBA Mondays, I figured I would turn it into a case study. In the early days of Tumblr, I used to bug David Karp, the founder and CEO of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
