Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three kids and lives in New York City. He blogs at avc.com.
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Posts by Fred:
- Twitter Fills The Tank
- Boxee
- Return Path
- Zemanta
- Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP
- Twitter Acquires Summize
- Twitter Raises A Second Round Of Funding
- And Then There Were Five
- Outside.in Steps It Up
- Disqus
- TargetSpot Raises Series B Round
- Etsy's New Financing And What They Are Going To Do With It
- Zynga Game Network
- Why Early Stage Venture Investments Fail
- Failure Rates In Early Stage Venture Deals
- Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class
- Introducing Albert Wenger
- FeedBurner Is Acquired by Google
- TargetSpot
- Reserves
- Outside.in
- SIAA Preview Keynote
- Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses
- Founders and Management
- Geography
- Deal Size
- Lead Investor
- Traction
- Early Stage Investing
- Other Things We Look For
- Business Development 2.0
- Looking For The Right Person
- Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?
- A Bittersweet Moment
- Etsy
- How Does Indeed Make Money?
- Replicating Silicon Valley
- What Else Are You Interested In?
- Advertising to Job Seekers
- On Influence
- User Tagging Is Fundamental
- Taking Web Services To The Office
- Looking Ahead
- TACODA Raises $12 million
- Web Services and Devices
- Advisory Capital
- Why We Invested in FeedBurner
- Feedburner
- Web 2.0 is an Oxymoron
- Indeed Job Data
- Instant Job Board
- Advertising Out Of Context
- Rich Media Realities
- Cliche of The Week
- Cliche of the Week
- Cliche of The Week
- Cliche of The Week
- Cliche of The Week
- Cliche of The Week
- Cliche of The Week
- Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Eight - Putting A String On Data
- Cliche of The Week
- Our Customer Is The Entrepreneur
- VC Cliche of the Week
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Five
- Will Live Kill?
- VC Cliche of the Week
- Sessions Top Ten Insights - Three
- Seeking A Super Talented Product/Design Person
- VC Cliche of the Week
- Peer Production in Action
- Union Square Sessions 1 - Transcript
- Management Case, Base Case and Worst Case
- Metrics
- Founders
- Audience Management
- del.icio.us
- Indeed
- A New Dimension?
- Impact Media
- Downturns
- Inspiration
- Wikis
- The Problem with Podcasts
- Location, Location, Location
- Is Bill Gates the Cat with Nine Lives?
- Union Square Ventures
