Fred Wilson

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• Thoughts on the Herd Instinct and Investing

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 633
  Fred Wilson submits: One of the things that always amazes me about investors is the way we move in herds. Developing markets are in, everyone invests in developing markets. Dubai blows up, everyone moves out of developing markets. Real-time is hot. Everyone invests in real-time. I can understand the hot money ...
  5 hours ago

• Nice Comment.

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  BoomTown gets guff about a lot of stuff, but none are more passionate than those who wanted us to make our comment system better. And they were right. So, while we never move fast enough, even for ourselves, tonight we have launched a new comments tool to improve the user experience on AllThingsD.com . It lets ...
  12 hours ago

• In the Venture Business, Small Is Beautiful, Charles River Ventures Argues—And Funds Are About to Get Much Smaller

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  VC , investing , startups Wade Roush wrote: The average return on venture capital investments for the year ending June 30, 2009, was -17 percent, according to figures released by the National Venture Capital Association in October. The 3-year return was +1.3 percent, the 5-year return was +5.7 percent, ...
  1 day ago

• The Fall and Rise of Media

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 633
  Fred Wilson submits: David Carr has a good post this morning in the New York Times called The Fall and Rise Of Media . The post starts out with the old way of the media business. Kids would come to NYC out of school and work in marginal jobs in the hopes of getting a break and joining the "velvet rope" of ...
  2 days ago

• What Is Boxee?

  
  System Information ON Five Tools — Authority: 141
  In this video sees just how BOXEE makes it easy to surf the internet, stream movies and listen to music on your television from the comfort of your couch. Distributed by Tubemogul….Detail ProductaWhat Is Boxee? a What Is Boxee?
  4 days ago

• Give a Presentation or have a Discussion?

  
  Tom Altmans Wedia Conversation — Authority: 426
  As I prepare for a couple of internal presentations I’m giving at work I stumbled across this post from Fred Wilson called “ Presentations vs Discussions ” A presentation is like a TV show. It’s a lean back experience. A discussion is like an online chat room. It is a lean forward experience. They are not ...
  5 days ago

• 9 Things to Be Thankful For This Year

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 633
  Fred Wilson submits: 1) The economic meltdown/panic of 2008 is largely over. The economy is still weak but markets are functioning and buyers are buying and sellers are selling. 2) The FCC has submitted a proposal for rulemaking on net neutrality . Complete Story »
  5 days ago

• LeWeb ‘09: Sessions I’m Most Looking Forward To

  
  The Praized Blog — Authority: 416
  LeWeb , the major European conference (the equivalent of the Web 2.0 Summit in North America), just released their  complete schedule for the next event happening in Paris on December 9 and 10. The theme of the conference is the real-time Web. As I wrote about a month ago, I’ve been selected as one of ...
  1 week ago

• A celebratory snack

  
  First initial, last name. — Authority: 139
  Fred Wilson commented on my blog . I’m celebrating a bit. Tags: candy , celebration , chocolate , fred wilson , kit-kat , reeses cup Short URL: http://cdevroe.com/p/3243
  1 week ago

• The story of my avatar

  
  First initial, last name. — Authority: 139
  I’m sort of following Fred Wilson ’s lead here (simply because he did it first) but I’ve been thinking about explaining my somewhat odd avatar for a while. The story of Fred’s avatar is much more interesting so I’ll forgive you if you leave to read his instead of mine. *sniff* My avatar is meant to be a ...
  1 week ago

• Weekly Roundup

  
  Art21 Blog — Authority: 134
  Art21 artist Barry McGee stands in front of one of his geometric creations. Courtesy Wallpaper.com. From the west to the east coast and over to Taiwan, Art21 artists are involved in a number of new and large-scale exhibitions: Works by Barry McGee ( Season 1 ) and Philip Frost are the focus of mindthegap , ...
  1 week ago

• Should Government Get Involved in Protecting Businesses?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 633
  Fred Wilson submits: I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too. They were live streaming the event . My testimony is about 26 ...
  1 week ago

• The Power of Instant Approval

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 633
  Fred Wilson submits: Back in the early days of web video, it wasnt clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video ( GOOG ). I tried all of them. YouTube was by far and away the best experience. Google Video required you to wait for days ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Facebook and Twitter Should Start Charging Users

  
  Exclamation — Authority: 107
  What if Facebook and Twitter started charging users for their services? It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and have wondered why at least one of them, especially Facebook, have not experimented with in any way. Let’s look at Facebook in particular. Over the past few years, the service has ...
  3 weeks ago

• new york state of mind

  
  ginsudo — Authority: 107
  There’s nothing like New York City – this has been said so many times in so many ways that it hardly bears repeating.  But the compulsion to declare love for New York is like the compulsion for love itself:  it doesn’t matter that countless generations have found this magic and proclaimed their discoveries ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fred Wilsons Artistic Uncertainty Principle

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 117
  Fred Wilson is a fascinating man. A little under six foot with an owl face, full beard, gray hair and a kind yet mischievous twinkle clearly visible from the last row in the Nasher Museum auditorium, Fred Wilson’s Semans Lecture Tuesday night helped breathe new life into a jet lagged brain. Wilson’s simple idea is ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Be a Black Genius

  
  THEROOT.COM — Authority: 671
  How to Be a MacArthur Fellow Looking for $500,000 to pursue your work? No strings attached? The Root gives some clues on how to play the MacArthur Fellowship game to win. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Has Blog Reading Gone Mainstream?

  
  The Blog Herald — Authority: 592
  Fred Wilson, venture capitalist and well known blogger, today wonders if blog reading has gone mainstream . I think it is clear from a quick review of these numbers that blog reading is a mainstream and a mass medium. And the companies that serve this market, both bloggers and blog readers, are in a very ...
  5 weeks ago

• Don’t Fear the Social Web Bubble…Embrace It.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  I am pretty sure we are still in a bubble phase. It’s a bubble of bubbles world we now live in. Since the 80’s we have been printing money and printing money leads to bubbles. Persistently low interest rates leads to bubbles. It is obviously intoxicating for governments to just ‘ease baby ease’. It’s ...
  5 weeks ago

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