A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize. We have known the Summize team and have followed their progress for the past year. Summize has developed a real time search engine for conversational media (i.e. blogs, twitter) and more recently has […] Read more
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Twitter announced today that they have closed a second round of financing, led by Spark Capital and including Jeff Bezos’ investment entity Bezos Expeditions. Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage, another existing investor, also participated in the round. We remain very […] Read more
Fred WilsonBack in February, we posted here that we were looking to hire an analyst. We asked anyone who was interested in the position to leave a comment. We received 164 comments and then worked through all of them to find a small group we could actually meet and interview. It was a long process that […] Read more
Fred WilsonMost companies grow in steps. They operate at one level for a while, make good progress, then take a step up, and start operating at a new level. In the past month, our portfolio company has stepped it up on a number of levels. First and foremost, Mark Josephson joined as CEO and founder Steven […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rely on the New York Times for national news, Dow Jones or Bloomberg for business news, Ziff Davis for technology information, or Entertainment Tonight for the comings […] Read more
Fred WilsonLast year, we helped get a company started called TargetSpot. TargetSpot is the first self serve ad network for streaming audio and internet radio. TargetSpot was built by our portfolio company Oddcast for CBS Radio and they eventually concluded it needed to be an independent company. We stepped […] Read more
