A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI was trading emails with one of our portfolio company CEOs last week. The subject was a company that was looking for venture capital that offered a service that was similar to one of the services our portfolio company offered. The CEO was encouraging me to take a close look. He said, “someone is […] Read more
Fred WilsonIt’s been a while since our last post on this blog. Year end activities got in the way. We were in the midst of a string of posts on what we look for in our investments when we went radio silent. We’ve addressed issues like the stage we like to invest (early), the amount of […] Read more
Fred WilsonEach month we see something like thirty to fifty new investment opportunities that generally fit our investment strategy. They come from all over the place. Just in the past month, we’ve seen opportunities in Israel, Australia, China, London, San Diego, Boulder, Atlanta, Boston and the Bay Area. It […] Read more
Fred WilsonBrad and I have been doing early stage investing since the late 80s (me) and early 90s (Brad). For most of our career, a typical early stage venture round was $5mm to $6mm and you’d put two firms together and each would invest $2.5mm to $3mm. So when we sat down to build the business […] Read more
Fred WilsonMy good friend Charley says that I “don’t follow very well”. He means that I don’t like to participate in the Series B and C rounds of deals that have been funded by other venture capital firms in the Series A rounds. He’s right. I’ve never been very good at that style of investing and […] Read more
Fred WilsonThis is my second post on “other things we look for”. I hesitated to use the title Traction because its certainly one of the most overused words in the venture capital vernacular. But it is also the “shorthand” peope use to talk about how much uptake a given project has gotten in the marketplace. So […] Read more
