A historical collection of our writing.
So I was wrong when I wrote that Occupy Wall Street would at best help draw media attention to inequality. I had suggested that instead folks should spend their time building startups that disrupt existing institutions. It now seems that the Occupy Together movement has the potential to disrupt one […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Dennis M. Ritchie passed away yesterday. Ritchie was the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system (together with Ken Thompson) starting in the late 60s and early 70s. Both C and Unix have provided the underpinnings for many of the systems we still use […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Brad BurnhamWhen I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line “sure it’s cool but what the heck do they do if Microsoft decides to enter this business.” Today the role of the dominant […] Read more
Do you have a passion for creating technology to better connect teachers with each other and their students? Then you should consider working at Edmodo. The company, which is based in San Mateo, provides a free and safe social network for K12 education. Since we invested last year, Edmodo has grown […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Welcome to Tech Tuesdays! This is the first installment and as I had promised I am not assuming any prior knowledge other than as an enduser of computers. Instead we are starting with the absolute basics. Every computing system has to provide in some way for five different building blocks. Today’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast week I pointed out that when your company is sold at price points around or below prices where you have financed your company then your proceeds in a sale transaction will not equal your fully diluted ownership percentage times the sale price. You will get less because some or all of the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
