A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamFred wrote a post earlier this week advocating for more “open spectrum”. Fred argues in his post that freeing up more open spectrum will have a much larger impact than spending $7.2B in stimulus money to run wires to rural constituents. He also references our friend Tom Evslin who has been thinking […] Read more
Fred WilsonLawrence Aragon at PE Hub used the news that Cisco paid $590mm (in stock) for Pure Digital the maker of the super popular Flip Cam to ask this question. it sounds like a pretty good deal, but you have to understand that the VCs put $95 million into Pure, which makes the Flip digital video […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Eric FriedmanToday we put on an event called Hacking Education which is about the intersection of education and technology. Thanks to all those who came out to the event today and to those who participated on the web. If you are interested in finding out more about what was discussed today please see the […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere is an old and perhaps slightly shopworn saying in the venture business that you back the jockey and not the horse. But in markets undergoing dramatic transformation, where there is a real advantage to being quick on your feet, it is as true as ever. Dave Morgan, who founded Real Media and […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere is a great post up on the Pinch Media blog that links to a presentation they did for an IPhone user’s group here in New York. Pinch Media provides analytics for several hundred applications in the iPhone app store. Between them, those applications have over 30,000,000 downloads. In aggregate […] Read more
Fred WilsonThis is a subject near and dear to entrepreneurs, maybe the dearest subject of them all. Founders start out with 100% of the company and every time they raise capital and/or issue stock and options to their management team, that number goes down. Founders who "go all the way" through the process of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
