if you are one of those not hosting your own comments but using either disqus or intense debate youll be happy to know that mybloglog is adding support for these two services. personally im not a fan of either of these services but a lot of people are like fred wilson on disqus for instance. possibly related posts3 reasons to use disqusdisqus and seesmic team up to offer video commentsnot just blo...
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back when i set up my covestor portfolio i thought long and hard about techweb stocks and couldnt come up with any that i wanted to own. the two large cap internet companies that i really like are amazon and google. i subsequently......
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back in june when google announced google trends for websites and google ad planner i wrote a post comparing googles data to comscores data and concluded that google had a lot of work to do to get their data right. ive been an investor and board member inof comscore......
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if youre looking for funding in the form of venture capital one of the most effective ways to do your research is by reading the blogs of venture capitalists. quite often these folks will write about what theyre interested in what companies they recently funded and what is required in order to submit a business plan. to give you a jump start below are what i consider to be the best vc blogs on t...
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image via wikipediathis is just a quick rant. meets are a pain in the butt. i mean sometimes its necessary to meet and talk about a project or get people up to speed on the latest information. we have them each week for the bloggers and our group and i usually held a network meeting each week at my last company but to have meetings to decide what will be accomplished at the next meeting is redi...
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i put up a poll on this blog yesterday and a number of other blogs picked it up or linked to it. the net result was about 1800 responses as of 6am eastern this morning. you can track the responses and the number of them at this......
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coming out of our smtp is dead long live smtp brainstorming session i am thinking that we need to be talking about messaging not email. email is a subset of a much larger messaging market. what weve seen over the past 10 years is that internet messaging primarily......
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some of the comments to my first post on vc fund performance talked about selection bias. selection bias means that the data is skewed because some funds do not report their data. it could be that the worst funds dont report. or it could be the best funds dont report. venture......
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i posted the other day about google trends for websites. google isnt the only search company thats taking the data it collects and turning it into valuable insight. our portfolio company indeed has launched job analytics. heres......
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thats how i ended a post i wrote almost three years ago called in defense of free. its a concept that regular readers of this blog know well. but i still get comments like this one from hyokoni......
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i included this chart in my post yesterday.a......
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the gotham gal and i have gotten excited about the highline that is getting turned into a park in new york city. weve given money and are trying to help them raise more. ive posted about the highline on this blog in the past. one of the inspirations for the highline is an elevated......
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venture fund economics gross and net returns the comments on my initial post on this topic went right at the vcs compensation management fees and carry and their impact on returns. so at ken bergers suggestion i will change my......
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two of very interesting posts about vc fund economics are over at fred wilsons joint first venture fund economics a second a challenge is that my understanding is that union square fund has done much better than average and therefore you would not want to make generalization about the vc industry from their experiences.aaa i also need to get some feedback from fred regarding the time frames he is...
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and post 2 is up i guess post 1 went up yesterday and i missed it since i only read feeds in the morning. post 2 is titled gross and net returnsand while it describes them it has an excellent spreadsheet that go through the assumptions fred and his partner brad burnham made on how they would invest their first union square ventures fund. fred uses this model as the basis for describing the math ...
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fred wilson has an excellent post up today titled venture fund economics. it appears to be the first of several posts hes planning to write on this topic. when i write about venture fund returns there are always comments and questions that lead me to believe that the economics of a venture fund are not well understood. and since most of the readers and commenters on this blog are people who wo...
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fred a vc venture fund economics gross and net returns the comments on my initial post on this topic went right at the vcs compensation management fees and carry and their impact on returns. so at ken bergers suggestion i will change my planned post for today and address the issue head on.......
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there is an extremely interesting entry in a blog called a a vc written by fred wilson managing partner of a small venture capital firm called union square partners. it has a particularly clear description and example of the financial mechanics of the venture business which any software startup entrepreneur should understand thoroughly before they raise money. the blog is worth reading though mr ...
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when i write about venture fund returns there are always comments and questions that lead me to believe that the economics of a venture fund are not well understood. and since most of the readers and commenters on this blog are people who work in the startup ecosystem i think its important that the economics are better understood. so i am planning on some posts on this topic in the coming weeks. ...
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