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John Heilemann has a cover story in the current issue of NY Magazine titled Obama Lost, Obama Found in which he details the challenges and opportunities facing the President. I took the time to read it last night, on the eve of the President's trip up to my birthplace and childhood home at ...
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David Carr has a good post this morning on 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 ...
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I just spent four hours going through my inbox and taking it from 500 emails to zero. These were old unanswered emails, not spam (which I delete regularly in the ordinary course of business). My email routine, now that I am solidly on gmail and loving it, is to quickly check off and delete all ...
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There's a saying I heard recently from someone in the tech business that goes something like this: Things take longer in the short run but they happen faster in the long run I am sure I've bastardized the quote but the point is important. Nothing happens as fast as you'd like but if you have ...
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Our portfolio company Targetspot is looking for an experienced online direct marketer to "own" and manage their self serve advertising business. This
is a fun job for the right person because it is an opportunity to run
and grow a small business inside a bigger business. The self service ...
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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 .
3) Android looks to be a winner and will give the iPhone a ...
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We've been doing our Union Square Sessions events for almost as long as our firm has been around. We pick a topic, like Hacking Eduction , that interests us and we invite about forty people to sit around a big open table and talk about the issue for four to five hours. There are no ...
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Dec 7th is "a day that will live in infamy" as FDR famously stated about Pearl Harbor day. It may also be infamous for what will in all likelihood go down at at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on at 7pm on December 7th of this year. Our portfolio company Boxee will be unveiling the beta ...
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I use a lot of music web services but I don't like to invest in this sector. Nonetheless, it's an area that I spend a lot of time thinking about. I've written endlessly on this blog about the music web services I use, why I use them, and where I think the music web is going. The most ...
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Our portfolio company Covestor is looking for a VP Product and a head of marketing . Both positions are in New York City.
Covestor has created an entirely new form of investment product - people powered investing . With Covestor you don't buy stocks and you don't buy funds. You "follow ...
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Our portfolio company Covestor is looking for a VP Product and a head of marketing . Both positions are in New York City.
Covestor has created an entirely new form of investment product - people powered investing . With Covestor you don't buy stocks and you don't buy funds. You "follow ...
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I saw this tweet from Charlie O'Donnell yesterday: LinkedIn pulled avatars of @ laughingsquid @ fredwilson @ hunterwalk and me down. Isn't our "professionalism" for our networks to judge? It's true. Here's my LinkedIn profile this morning: My avatar is gone, taken down. That's ...
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Protecting Business
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 streaming the event so I ...
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I saw this tweet when I got up this morning: hey @ fredwilson - whats the story behind ur avatar?
While longtime readers know it, I figure many of you don't. So here it goes.
Starting about four years ago, Howard Lindzon started commenting actively on this blog. He was funny, he ...
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I generally take a quick run through audience stats every morning. I saw this chart and thought "hmm, big day yesterday, why is that?" So I went to google analytics, which confirmed the big day. And then I went to the makeup of the traffic: Like most big days on AVC, it was referring ...
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Techmeme
I was explaining how I go about finding deals yesterday to a friend of mine and I thought I ought to explain it to everyone. I write this blog. It's like a broadcast channel of "what is interesting to me." I market it every way I know how and I get somewhere between 70k to 100k unique readers ...
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After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business of APIs conference . In the cab, I opened socialscope on my blackberry to check into twitter and saw this tweet from my partner Albert : Love APIs -- so excited ...
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Back in the early days of web video, it wasn't clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video. I tried all of them. YouTube was by far and away the best experience. Google Video required you to wait for days to see the ...
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Apple
On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote.
I spent this morning assembling them into a deck that I'll use in my talk tomorrow. Here's a final draft. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions/critiques/copy edits, please leave ...
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On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote.
I spent this morning assembling them into a deck that I'll use in my talk tomorrow. Here's a final draft. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions/critiques/copy edits, please leave ...
