A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org ) has been fighting for and helping to protect our online rights for twenty-eight years. Their primary focus areas are online privacy and free speech. They spend about $12mm a year on legal interventions and policy work. Most of their funding comes from […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’ve been wanting to say something like this here at AVC for several years and have held back for a host of reasons, mostly because it’s a sensitive topic and it would be misunderstood. But after watching Obama say this, I had to repost it. I could not agree more. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonPacing in a VC fund context is how much capital the firm is investing in a given period and tracking that over time. I don’t think a VC firm should manage to a pacing number. It should manage to the opportunity set that it sees. But I think pacing is a great thing to track […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonEighteen months ago, I had breakfast with John Heilemann and he told me that his world, political media, was challenged in the shift from linear television (ie cable news) to real-time mobile (ie Twitter). He saw an opportunity to address that by filling the void in between them with news content […] Read more
Fred WilsonThis past summer I read Ben Horowitz’s new book, What You Do Is Who You Are , and I even blogged about it here without naming the book. What You Do is about culture, how you make it, how you keep it, and how the big decisions you make and how you explain them set […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonEarly-stage companies are exercises in experimentation, iteration, and figuring things out. You try one thing, it sort of works, but you see a tangential opportunity and go after that. Sometimes that leads to a full-on pivot, other times it leads to an evolution of the opportunity. This process can […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
