A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI wrote a post on my personal weblog several months ago called The Future of Media where I invited anyone to take my content (actually my RSS feed) and do anything they want with it. I suggested that there were four things that content owners needed to do to maximize the value of their content. […] Read more
Fred WilsonFor years, we have been fascinated by the fact that many of the very best startup companies come out of “side projects”. They are accidents really. eBay, Google, and Yahoo! are all examples of this mode of starting companies. Delicious was born this way. One of my favorite web services, Sitemeter, […] Read more
Fred WilsonMany of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds). We’ve always thought that was wrong. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That’s the only way to think about the venture capital business […] Read more
Fred WilsonI posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other day. It fostered some good discussion in the comments section of that post and also at our annual meeting yesterday. That discussion, which started […] Read more
Fred WilsonOne of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform. The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies in this large and important industry. They are seeking to […] Read more
Fred WilsonThis is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production. This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki. I assumed that Charlie did it last night. Since Charlie sprained his ankle yesterday playing […] Read more
