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by Fred Wilson, September 10, 2012 | Comments

If you're hosting live, real-time discussions, make them mobile, or someone else will

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about the value and big opportunity of enabling mobile discussions.) One of the great things about the Web is the ability for people located all around the world to be having a public conversation in real time in a single place. We ...

Leveraging your partners to grow and develop your team

by Fred Wilson, July 9, 2012 | Comments

	Rule No. 1 is demand that your investors help you grow and develop your team (Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about five ways to leverage investors.) This is the final post I am writing in this MBA Mondays post on People. Next week we will start with the guest posts and I've lined up about a half a dozen of them. I ...
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Mobile is where the growth is

by Fred Wilson, July 2, 2012 | Comments

Mobile native services, Foursquare and Instagram, have the most to gain from this transition

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about the transition to mobile and how native mobile services, like Foursquare and Instagram have the most to gain, and Web-rich companies like Google and Facebook have the most to lose.) If you look at any of the top Web properties on ...

MBA Mondays: Optimal headcount at various stages

by Fred Wilson, June 4, 2012 | Comments

Time and again, the entrepreneur who hires quickly fails, the the one who is a bit slow succeeds

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about the value of being resource constrained in the early stages of building a company.) This is the third post in the MBA Mondays series on People. The number of people you have in your company at any time is a very ...

The Darwinian evolution of start-up hubs

by Fred Wilson, May 21, 2012 | Comments

The first tree in Silicon Valley was Fairchild Semiconductor, founded in 1957

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about how Silicon Valley became the innovation center of the world and how NYC is emerging as another hotbed for start-ups.) This past weekend finds NYC in between Internet Week (which I largely missed because of my London trip) and Disrupt NYC (which I will ...

The Board of Directors - the role of the Board Chair

by Fred Wilson, March 19, 2012 | Comments

	When it works, the Board Chair is hugely impactful (Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes about the significance of having a Board Chair and the details on selecting one.) Continuing our series on The Board Of Directors, this week I'll talk about the role of the Board Chair. The Board Chair runs the Board Of Directors. He or ...
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Yahoo crosses the line

by Fred Wilson, March 14, 2012 | Comments

	I used to care about that company... No more. They are dead to me (Fred Wilson is a VC based in NYC. In this opion piece, he writes about the recent patent lawsuit filed by Yahoo against Facebook.) The patents that Yahoo! is suing Facebook over are a crock of shit. None of them represent unique and new ideas at the time of the filing. I supect they all can be thrown out over prior art if ...
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The board of directors

by Fred Wilson, March 12, 2012 | Comments

	Selecting, electing and evolving (Fred Wilson is an investor with Union Square Ventures in Manhattan, and the author of the popular AVC blog.) This article is about the importance of selecting your board members and how to go about it.) Every company should have a Board Of Directors. At the start it can simply be a one person board consisting of the founder. But ...
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The management team - while building the business

by Fred Wilson, January 16, 2012 | Comments

Founders should think of the business as yet another product they are building

This is the third and final post on the subject of the management team. The final phase of company development I am going to cover is "building the business." Building the business largely means building the management team. They are one and the same. Many founders are naturally talented at building product and building the user base. But building the ...

Some thoughts on the IPO market for Web companies

by Fred Wilson, December 23, 2011 | Comments

	Public market values may be lower than late-stage private valuations (Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. This article explains his bullish views on the latest batch of Web IPOs, arguing that in aggregate they have a revenue multiple under 6.6x.) We have an IPO market for Web companies again. I don't have all the names in front of me, but this year has brought ...
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How much to burn while building a product

by Fred Wilson, December 20, 2011 | Comments

Foursquare spent nine months without any pay, but a reasonable burn is about $50k a month

(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures. This piece is about burn rates for start-ups and why $50,000 a month is probably a reasonable starting point, unless founders are willing to put their own sweat equity in without paying themselves, which happens a lot.) In last week's MBA Mondays, I wrote about burn rates at three stages of a ...

Cheap will be smart; Expensive will be dumb

by Fred Wilson, December 5, 2011 | Comments

This is how I am viewing the market opportunity these days

Fred Wilson is a VC from Union Square Ventures, in NY. I wrote about this a while back but I've been refining and sharpening my thinking on the question of which devices will be smart and which devices will be dumb. It's an important question because it gets to what platforms developers should build on. I believe that cheap devices will ...

JFK to SFO, and back

by Fred Wilson, December 4, 2011 | Comments

Major players like Facebook, eBay, Zynga, Twitter all have engineering teams in NYC

I (Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in NYC). I've been doing that route for 25 years. And never have I felt that these two cites/regions have been more connected at the hip than I do right now. This past week brought the news thatFacebook plans to open an engineering office in NYC. Serkan Piantino, the Facebook ...

Business arcanery: Going concern

by Fred Wilson, November 14, 2011 | Comments

The purpose of this new monthly series is to decode business code words

(Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, in NY) We got so many ideas for this Business Arcanery series on MBA Mondays that I'm not going to do it as a series. I am going to do one of these every month. There is enough business arcanery out there that I could do a years worth of weekly posts without running ...

Revenue-based financing

by Fred Wilson, October 17, 2011 | Comments

	This structure may align your incentives with angel investors Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NYC. Back when we were doing our MBA Monday series on Financing Options For Startups, I got an email from my friend Andy Sack. Andy was one of the first entrepreneurs we funded by in the mid 90s with our Flatiron Fund. He's done something like a half dozen startups since ...
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