A historical collection of our writing.
I wrote a bit of a rant recently about the structural changes in our economy and society that need to be addressed. What we are getting instead – not surprisingly – is a lame last minute compromise on the debt ceiling that includes absolutely no additional revenues for the government (“it’s all […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As I have been preparing for my talk in Edinburgh in August, I have been collecting examples of disruption. One that I am particularly fond of because so much has happened in the last 15 years are classified ads. Here is a brief history. Classified ads in the offline world were enormously […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The team at Twilio has done an amazing job making telephony accessible to developers. Making and accepting calls, as well as sending and receiving texts is now as easy as a couple of lines of code. The simplicity of Twilio’s API is such that most developers are literally up and running within […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt's Monday, time for MBA Mondays and the next post in the Startup Financing Options series. Today we will talk about Venture Debt. If there were two words less likely to be found together, it would be venture and debt. Startups are not credit worthy enterprises. They have little to no assets and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
If anybody still has any illusions about the current state of dysfunction of the patent system in the US, please make sure they listen to or read This American Life’s investigation of Intellectual Ventures (IV). IV was founded and is headed up by Nathan Myhrvold who made a fortune as the CTO of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A while back I announced on this blog that we were planning to move back to the city. I am happy to report that we have made a lot of progress on that and are now in contract to buy a place not far from the USV offices. When I mentioned this to a friend […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
