Fred Wilson
Summary
Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is a New York-based venture capitalist (active since 1987) and a prominent blogger. Through his well-known blog and his investment in some of New York's notable start-up companies over the past decade, he is recognized as a leading voice of the venture capital finance community in the nation's largest city. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a smaller ($125 million in capital under management), newly formed, New York City based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Covestor, del.icio.us, Etsy, FeedBurner, Heyzap, Indeed.com, Tacoda, Oddcast, Disqus, Zemanta and Clickable.In 1996, Wilson co-founded Flatiron Partners with his partner Jerry Colonna.
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Is Mobile First Still The Right Strategy?
There's an interesting discussion going on this morning on Fred Wilson's A VC blog in a post called Rethinking Mobile First. I'd encourage you to read the entire post AND the comments, but here's a short recap, along with my thoughts.
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Bits: Apps Aiming for Sharing Within Boundaries
In a natural evolution of social networking, more mobile apps are aiming for sharing within boundaries.
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Fred Wilson: Content owners, don’t fear the future
The pitched war between content owners and technology companies doesn’t have to persist if media companies would acknowledge and adapt to the new realities of digital distribution, said Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Speaking at the paidContent 2012 conference in New York, Wilson said the content companies that learn to adjust and embrace new distribution channels can keep the revenue flowing.
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The disruption in media and real-time politics at paidContent 2012
All of us at GigaOM and our sister site paidContent are into the final planning stages for our big media show on May 23 — paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads. As paidContent editor and conference chair Staci Kramer has described in her posts leading up to the conference, we’re going to be looking at a wide range of topics related to the disruption in the media industry, from newspapers to e-books, with a great lineup of speakers including Media News Group CEO Jim Paton, Vox Media founder Jim Bankoff and Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne.
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Software developer revives debate about whether journalists should learn to code
Coding Horror | Learn Code the Hard Way | Highgroove Studios | NPR | Esmoov This week’s debate in the software development community about whether everyone should learn to code shows that journalists aren’t the only… Read more.
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paidContent 2012: Two weeks out
Two weeks from today, we’ll be at The TimesCenter in New York for our flagshippaidContent 2012: At The Crossroads with several hundred executives who have the same goal in mind: the creation and evolution of sustainable business models that will support quality media, entertainment and information across platforms.
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Why you should have comments, even when they are bad
If you spend long enough reading blogs — or even newspapers, for that matter — you will eventually come across an essay about how a site is struggling with the question of whether to allow comments, or has decided to shut them down. The latest example of this genre comes from former Gawker Media and Wired staffer Joel Johnson, now managing editor of an arts and culture site called Animal New York, who says comments are worthless because they are filled with garbage and hardly anyone reads them anyway.
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I'm Mad as Hell, But I Haven't (Yet) Cut the Cord
"You can cut the cable, dad," my teenage daughter has told me more than once when I've grumbled about the poor service, unexplained fees and large percentage increases I've had to pay over our introductory "triple-play" rates to our cable company.
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First Round Capital Principal Charlie O'Donnell Founds His First Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Charlie O'Donnell, former founder of Path101 and principal at First Round Capital, is leaving the firm.
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Bloomberg Will Open A New Software Engineering Academy In Union Square Supported By Fred Wilson
In it he is announced a new Software Engineering Academy supported by Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson, who helped fund the project. The Academy will be a new high school in Union Square; it will open its doors in September.
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