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• new york state of mind

  
  ginsudo — Authority: 91
  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 ...
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• Fred Wilsons Artistic Uncertainty Principle

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• How to Be a Black Genius

  
  THEROOT.COM — Authority: 674
  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. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Has Blog Reading Gone Mainstream?

  
  The Blog Herald — Authority: 613
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Intention Economy

  
  We Are Social — Authority: 496
  David Gillespie has been burning the midnight oil producing this epic 260 slide presentation, which covers a lot of ground, including his thoughts about the ‘Intention Economy’, in an incredibly compelling way. As you’ll see from the opening slides, it has a particular resonance for us here at We Are Social. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Web 2.0 Summit Opens: Today’s Revolution Akin to Web 2.0 in 2004

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  2 weeks ago

• Company Math vs VC Math

  
  CVCA - Capital Rants — Authority: 91
  Repost from Josh Kopelman’s blog - Redeye VC A view of the startup ecosystem from a coastally challenged VC. Company Math vs VC Math Fred Wilson has a great blog post today entitled  The ‘We Need to Own’ Baloney .  In it he discussed the fact that many VC’s apply arbitrary ownership thresholds to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Strangelove – or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet

  
  Creative Is Not A Department — Authority: 460
  I mentioned last week I had been staying in on weekends and up at night trying to get everything I was thinking about out of my head. The space I feel was created in my head is amazing, leaving room to think about a bunch of other projects I have on the go but have also played second fiddle to this. I’m not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Week for the Mobile Web

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  Fred Wilson submits: When I use the word "mobile web", I am not referring to the web running in mobile browsers, although I understand that is what the words have come to mean. I believe that mobile devices are bringing web services into our pockets and purses, onto restaurant tables and bars, and into schools and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Content, Microcontent, Blogging, Microblogging

  
  Netizen — Authority: 127
  Image via CrunchBase I was just busy leaving tens of comments at this particular blog post by Fred Wilson , the VC also known as AVC , and it occurred to me that we treat blog comments as almost illegitimate. There is that near universal no follow command that pulls down comments left at most blogs. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thesis Driven Startups & Investing

  
  innonate — Authority: 99
  Over the last few years, Ive come to believe that the strongest startups and VCs are those armed with a strong  thesis . Why? Despite common belief, a thesis is not most important when founding a startup or deciding to fund one -- those decisions always have a thesis of some degree behind them. No, a strong thesis ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some entrepreneurial advice from U2

  
  Entrepreneurial — Authority: 456
  Mark Solon, the managing partner and co-founder of Boise, Idaho-based Highway 12 Ventures, wrote a blog post - “Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down” - offering some entrepreneurial advice he gleaned from one of U2’s more underrated tunes. Now we highly doubt Bono had entrepreneurs or venture capitalists in ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Baloney of We Need to Own

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  Fred Wilson submits: Over the past few months, Ive heard countless VCs utter the words we need to own followed by some number. Often it is 20pcnt, but it is frequently 30pcnt. I heard someone tell me about a VC yesterday who said they needed to own 44pcnt. I was tempted to ask them to give me the number to four ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sitting Next To David Rose At The NY Tech MeetUp

  
  Netizen — Authority: 127
  David Rose is a legend on the New York technology scene. I had known his name for a while. Heck, I got to know him name before I educated myself on Fred Wilson s name (@ fredwilson ). I had even talked to him over Facebook email once. Last month I showed up half an hour early and quite liked it. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• An Amateur’s Take on The Broken VC Model

  
  VC Cafe — Authority: 423
  Lately there has been a lot of discussion about the broken VC model . Some blame the dry IPO market, LPs taking big hits on overvalued investment and running for safer asset classes and a heightened interest in liquidity. It’s no wonder than, that only 19% of Israeli venture capital funds plan to make new ...
  4 weeks ago

• Startup Scam: Paying to Pitch Puts Power Players on the Warpath

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  4 weeks ago

• Start-up Scam Watch: Paying to Pitch

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  Fred Wilson submits: Jason Calacanis has taken on a new cause, outing angel groups that charge entrepreneurs to pitch . I agree with Jason that any angel group that charges an entrepreneur to pitch should be avoided. It suggests to me that the group is more about making money on pitch fees than investing. Ive ...
  4 weeks ago

• Web Sector Megatrends: The Golden Triangle

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  Fred Wilson submits: I heard something this past week that stuck with me all the way to the weekend. To the life of me, I cant remember who said it but at least I remember what was said: The three current big megatrends in the web/tech sector are mobile, social, and real-time. Complete Story »
  4 weeks ago

• Marketing Talks@Google: Fred Wilson

  
  CVN Video — Authority: 142
  Fred Wilson visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss disruption. This event took place on May 13, 2009, as part of the Marketing Talks@Google series.
  4 weeks ago

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