A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonWe had a bunch of questions about vesting in the comments to last week’s MBA Mondays post. So this post is going to be about vesting. Vesting is the technique used to allow employees to earn their equity over time. You could grant stock or options on a regular basis and accomplish something […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
There is a whole resurgence of photo sharing and it is all based on creating a natively mobile experience (as opposed to adding mobile as an after thought). This is interesting two reasons. First, photo sharing is of course one of the most common activities on Facebook. Second, as I noted in a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The rumor is that Facebook will on Monday unveil a fairly full fledged webmail solution. At the same time Google is working hard on some kind of new social network. Microsoft too is trying to have email, search, social, etc. all under one roof. The rationale here seems to be one of wanting to own […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am going to spend the better part of today building some models in Excel. Much as I love Google Docs, for any serious model I still go back to Excel without regrets. It is fast and versatile and I know it extremely well. I see a fair number of business budgets and financial models […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
My routine online reading has narrowed somewhat precipitously to Tumblr, Techmeme, Hacker News and HuffPo. Would love to find out what folks are reading daily or at least frequently (minimum once a week) online across categories: tech, politics, culture, art, science.Credit for this question goes […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am often surprised by how many people know what they want and yet fail to ask for it at the crucial moment (or for that matter altogether). This occurs in many different contexts. Sales people who can’t close because they don’t ask for the order. Employees who are unhappy with their role or […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
