A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI've spent the past two days in airports and on airplanes. I was hoping to write my MBA Mondays post for today on the flight yesterday. But there was no wifi or power. I punted and watched VCU beat Kansas (yay) and Kentucky hold on and beat UNC. I had the same plan today. Had […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the fall of 2009, we met the founding team at Kickstarter. Perry, Yancey, and Charles had built a marketplace where anyone could fund and follow creativity of all kinds. We were immediately taken with the team and the idea. We are all well aware of what is happening to the existing models for […] Read more
Fred Wilsonobama_oj Originally uploaded by charmaine_cooper. When you walk into our conference room at Union Square Ventures, you see the box of cereal on the right on our conference room credenza next to a wifi router and a jar of Jolly Ranchers. It is there because we are big Obama fans? Nope. The cereal […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonYet another post in the M&A Issues series. This one is about timing, ie how long it should take from the first serious conversation about a sale transaction until the closing. I've seen acquisitions done in a week. I've seen acquisitions take over a year from the first serious conversation to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAt Union Square Ventures, we seek to invest in large networks of engaged users. And we believe that the new beachhead for creating large networks is the mobile device. When you look at the engaged user on the mobile device, the thing you notice is that messaging is the killer app. People like to […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe continue our discussion of M&A Issues this week on MBA Mondays. Today we are going to talk about the "stay package." When a company acquires your business, they are buying the people as much as anything. Experience has shown that the most successful acquisitions require the team to stick around, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
