A historical collection of our writing.
We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter’s new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious — in my case “working with” was literal — and have benefited since from his insights into social software. […] Read more
Fred has a post today titled “Mobile First, Web Second” http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html which is spot on. There is an important additional reason for pursuing this strategy: on the web everything is about displacement, on mobile there is still mostly open […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. I am going to try to address that question in this post. First, a caveat. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Yesterday, I gave $1,000 to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. With this post I want to convince you to do the same (or at least give something to him). Why? Because Ron Wyden has taken a stand against the awful proposed law known as COICA. If you don’t know what COICA is or why it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Listening to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at W2Summit was fascinating. First, I have seen Mark’s performance on stage go from awkward and tentative three years ago to assured and compelling now. Second, it couldn’t be clearer that Mark is singularly in control of Facebook and aggressively building an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Super detailed post by Bill Gurley about IPOs followed by a riff from Fred with more good reasons why could and should see more IPOs from Internet companies. So I am piling on with an IPO post as well, but one about how (at least some) Internet companies should be doing IPOs. And since yesterday […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
