A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other day. It fostered some good discussion in the comments section of that post and also at our annual meeting yesterday. That discussion, which started […] Read more
Brad BurnhamHere are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion… Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal… “Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that’s implicit, unfortunately, is that everyone is participating in an equal way, and the […] Read more
Brad BurnhamUmair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week. Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that “What does an abundance of information create?” A scarcity of attention basically, right? So I went to […] Read more
Brad BurnhamSocial production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says, “if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they’re very, very successful companies, they’re actually pretty generous in […] Read more
Brad BurnhamAs we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these thoughts up on the site over the next week or so. Our first observation is that we may need a finer grained definition of “peer […] Read more
Fred WilsonOne of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform. The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies in this large and important industry. They are seeking to […] Read more
