A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonContinuing the theme of case studies for MBA Mondays, I want to use a milestone that was passed last night to make a bigger point about startups. I have known Scott Heiferman since the late 90s. He was one of the early NYC web 1.0 entrepreneurs. We were quite friendly with Scott but we were […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it all the time. And it is an important lesson that I have learned in my career. When something goes badly in your company, for many the initial instinct is to keep things under wraps as much […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI recently had lunch with Mark Leslie, a successful entrepreneur and CEO, who now teaches at Stanford and works with startups, often as a board member. He told me about a paper he and a colleague published in Harvard Business Review called The Sales Learning Curve. I read the paper and it […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have been writing MBA Mondays every week since January 2010. There have been roughly 160 MBA Mondays posts to date. It is a substantial body of work. I have no clue how many words I have written on this topic, but it feels like a lot. I am not sure where to go from […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen I got into the venture capital business in the mid 80s, software was sold. You would pay a large sum to acquire a license to the software and then a much smaller annual fee for maintenance and support. Today, most software is sold in a subscription model. You pay a monthly fee for the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonCommerce has to be the oldest business model. Sell something to someone. Or maybe it was barter back then. In any case, ecommerce revenues topped $200bn in the US in 2011 and are growing at close to 10% annually. Global ecommerce revenues are at least double that, maybe as much as $500bn depending […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
