A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonCase studies are true stories that teach lessons. And one of the great lessons I got in my career was care of a lawyer named Morty. This is a reblog of a post I wrote in Feb 2007. I thought about it last week in an email discussion with a friend. And so I decided […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI am going down to Princeton today to talk to Ed Zschau’s class on entrepreneurship today. Ed asked me what I wanted to talk about. I told him “return and ridicule”. I have found that return and ridicule are highly correlated over the years. We have made more money on things that were highly […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonContinuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel investments and the best one was in a company called TACODA that went on to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonContinuing the theme of case studies for MBA Mondays, I want to use a milestone that was passed last night to make a bigger point about startups. I have known Scott Heiferman since the late 90s. He was one of the early NYC web 1.0 entrepreneurs. We were quite friendly with Scott but we were […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it all the time. And it is an important lesson that I have learned in my career. When something goes badly in your company, for many the initial instinct is to keep things under wraps as much […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI recently had lunch with Mark Leslie, a successful entrepreneur and CEO, who now teaches at Stanford and works with startups, often as a board member. He told me about a paper he and a colleague published in Harvard Business Review called The Sales Learning Curve. I read the paper and it […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
