September 2006

Traction

This is my second post on "other things we look for". I hesitated to use the title Traction because its certainly one of the most overused words in the venture capital vernacular. But it is also the "shorthand" peope use... [Read More]

September 30, 2006 10:16 AM, By Fred Wilson
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Early Stage Investing

I thought I’d lead off my series of posts on “other things we look for” with a discussion of our preference for early stage investing. Most of our investment approach is built on top of our foundation as early stage... [Read More]

September 19, 2006 06:06 AM, By Fred Wilson
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and more likely that 20 years from now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Cingular and T-Mobile will... [Read More]

September 18, 2006 04:04 PM, By Brad Burnham
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Other Things We Look For

Last month Brad wrote a series of posts on the things we look for in our investments. Those posts are archived here. As Brad said in his introduction to those posts: A year ago when we first re-launched our web... [Read More]

September 6, 2006 05:26 PM, By Fred Wilson
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