A historical collection of our writing.
Today Foursquare announced that it has raised $41 million coming from its existing investors (including USV) and adding Silver Lake‘s Waterman Fund. This puts the company in a great position to continue executing at the intersection of local, mobile and social. That opportunity today is larger and […] Read more
Lots of good news about Foursquare. You can read about it from Dennis, Bijan, Fred and myself. I love using the new version of the app – go check it out. All feedback on it is welcome! […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written previously about cyber security and cyber defense topics that have become more acute in the wake of several large scale attacks on banks and other companies. Unfortunately, law makers in DC are reacting the only way they seem to know how: by further broadening laws that are already […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need The musician Prince recently found short videos clips from the Twitter-owned video sharing service Vine to be offending because they contained clips from his music: A representative of NPG Records […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about growing your engineering organization and the week before that about evolving your technology. Today here are three more best practices for successful engineering growth: APIs – I will have a lot more to say about how APIs relate to strategy in a separate post, but […] Read more (opens Continuations 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)
