A historical collection of our writing.
The folks at the Tribeca Film festival were kind (or silly) enough to ask me to write something for their Future of Film blog.Which I did – entitled “The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get.” I’d been thinking alot about how users are getting content, how they are experiencing it. It seems that in […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI believe that a good domain name is an important success factor in building and launching consumer web services. It's not in my top ten but it could be. It's certainly something we think about a lot when making investments and working with companies post investment. A number of our portfolio […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
There were a lot of really interesting comments to my question about retail trends earlier this week. Thanks to all who contributed to the discussion. As I am thinking about how to organize all of these, I am reminded that it is often (always?) a good idea to try to reason from first principles. In […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This Friday I will be meeting with some of the senior management from a major branded retail chain in the US to talk about how the web and mobile are impacting their business. In preparation, I am thinking about key relevant trends. Here are some that are top of mind: Would love to hear from […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am currently reading James Gleick’s “The Information,” which I highly recommend (more on that in a separate post). In it is a wonderful chapter on Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace, which makes it clear how amazing her insights into what we would call programming were by placing them in their […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonJoel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Stack Exchange, posted an excellent answer to the question in the title of this post on the Stack site OnStartups. I'm not going to reblog the entire answer here. I'd encourage you to go read Joel's answer. However, I am going to highlight […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
