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Fred WilsonYet another MBA Monday topic comes from the comments of last week’s post. This series is turning into a conversation which makes me very pleased. Mr Shawn Yeager said: As a recovering lawyer, and a serial entrepreneur, I constantly have associates, friends, and family coming to me for advice on […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
We took a quick look yesterday at the Closing Ceremony for the Winter Olympics, which was painful (Shatner, really?) but as we flipped to another channel, we ran across Undercover Boss on CBS. The premise of the series is simple: a boss from a large company works “undercover” at the frontlines of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The Web brought us the democratization of content. Cloud Computing will do the same for applications. That will be one of my key themes for the Cloud Computing panel this afternoon at the Wharton Business Technology conference (that’s assuming that my Acela which is already 30 minutes late will […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the all time great opening lines is from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: I am beginning to think that the opposite is true for (web) startups. There seem to be surprisingly many roads to success. But the canonical road to trouble appears to be taking your burn rate up *before* you have something […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I love Italy – for vacations, that is. But the decision by a judge in Milan to convict several Google employees for the posting of a bullying video on Youtube is a serious threat to the potential of the Internet to be a force for freedom. I have been critical of Google many times on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI'm taking a turn on MBA Mondays today. We are moving past the concepts of interest and time value of money and moving into the world of corporations. Today, I'd like to talk about what kinds of entities you might encounter in the world of business. First off, you don't have to incorporate to be […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
