A historical collection of our writing.
Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreesen Horowitz has a guest post on All Things Digital titled “The Case for the Fat Startup.” In it he makes a case for raising a lot of money and investing it aggressively. Ben’s argument is related to my post from yesterday about ”Winner Take All and Early Stage […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I was thinking this morning that one way to create a service of real value is to ensure that the way a user experiences that service is commensurate with the value you are trying to deliver to the user. Feels like a simple idea but harder in practice.For example, Foursquare. Stated mission: find […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The range for early stage valuations is probably broader than I have seen it since the first Internet bubble. I am aware of raises at the moment all the way from pre-moneys of below $2 million to $50 million. These are all early-stage pre-revenue companies but with launched services. What accounts […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This has been a fairly rough winter. We had at least three separate storms that dumped over a foot of snow. And then just as it looked as if spring was around the corner with a couple of absolutely gorgeous days, we got a storm with a combination of tremendous rainfall and such high winds […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonToday on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L). Picking up from the accounting post last week, there are two kinds of accounting entries; those that describe money coming into and out of your […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Chris Dixon had a great post yesterday about “the importance of investor signaling in venture pricing” that every entrepreneur should read. Leaving aside the classical economics strawman from the first paragraph (does anybody think that classical economics would apply to a small numbers situation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
