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Data from CB Insights, a research firm that tracks the Venture Capital industry shows that seed investments, led by Internet startups, increased from mere one percent of all deals during the third quarter of 2009 to a whopping 11 percent of total deals a year later. Read more »

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Union Square Ventures investor Fred Wilson came to Toronto earlier this week for a series of meetings with startups and venture investors, and to judge some young companies at a local DemoCamp, and said that the startup atmosphere in Toronto reminded him of New York. Read more »

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During a recent interview in Toronto, venture investor Fred Wilson shared some thoughts about the recent “AngelGate” clash between “super-angels” and traditional VCs, as well as some of the big trends online that he is thinking about as he makes investments for Union Square Ventures. Read more »

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Reports about a secret meeting in San Francisco where “super-angels” discussed ways of fighting back against mainstream venture capital funds and holding down startup valuations has sparked some strong reactions, including responses from angel investors Dave McClure and Chris Yeh, as well as VC Fred Wilson. Read more »

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Union Square Ventures managing partner Fred Wilson’s blunt opinions on the tech industry were on display today at the Geo-Loco conference in San Francisco. And he had some compelling justifications for his insults, even if they were mainly targeted at competitors of his portfolio companies. Read more »

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There was a push and pull throughout the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week about the role investors play in Internet startups. Sometimes, it’s worth it to find an investor who’s willing to invest at a big valuation and leave a company alone. Read more »

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The idea of the “lean startup,” where young companies make use of readily available tools and quick iteration to figure out their business without spending much money, might be trendy, but VC Ben Horowitz is not a fan. Today he debated lean startup proponent Fred Wilson. Read more »

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Blogging platform Tumblr has raised another round of financing from its existing venture backers, Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures, putting pressure on the company to start generating revenue. It is exploring various options, but founder David Karp has said that he is “opposed to advertising.” Read more »

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Fred Wilson will be giving a talk at the 99% conference later this week entitled “10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss.” Prior to the talk, Wilson has provided a preview of his presentation, which gives his views on the various categories of entrepreneur. Read more »

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Twitter investor Fred Wilson’s comments about the company’s evolution have sparked fear among developers of third-party apps that rely on the network. But even if his comments do mean Twitter is going to compete with them, shouldn’t they have seen this coming a long time ago? Read more »

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Union Square Ventures investor Fred Wilson says he believes Twitter has reached an inflection point, where it is big enough and important enough to become the center of a new marketplace of businesses. But it’s not clear if the social network will ever fill that role. Read more »

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A new site called ChatRoulette has been getting a lot of attention lately because it features live video chatting with random strangers, with predictable results. But among those interested in the site is venture investor Fred Wilson, who has invited the founder to New York. Read more »

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Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis has called for a public boycott of comScore because of a controversial change in the way it measures web traffic, and has pulled Union Square VC Fred Wilson into the fight as well. Read more »

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YouTube announced this afternoon a trio of new tools for its YouTube Insight to help video uploaders get a better sense of how and where their audience is coming from. The new features are: Discovery over time – combines two previous features to illustrate how viewers […] Read more »

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Venture capitalist Fred Wilson recently proposed the idea of a “Watch Later” queue for the web that connects up to the TV in your living room and to other devices. That web-to-TV linkup is high on his mind given that he’s in investor in Boxee, but […] Read more »

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[qi:115] The venture model is ailing, and folks in the industry are promoting two different diagnoses for the sickness. One group says the industry needs more exits and should promote the return of smaller initial public offerings, while the other says the industry has grown too […] Read more »

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VC Fred Wilson was interviewed by a reporter on Monday, on the topic of what makes an entrepreneur, and entrepreneur. Read his post, but these 3 exchanges in the Q&A make for a nice Thought for The Day: Q: What is entrepreneurship? A: It’s the art […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: Serial founder Tony Wright recently completed a 3-month stint at the incubator YCombinator, where, in November 2007, he and two partners launched RescueTime, which hawks free software to help individuals and businesses spend their computing time more effectively. After successfully launching their consumer offering […] Read more »

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They’re just throwing darts at a wall. Or worse… “Oh, Look! Mr. Peepers just picked the very same [startups] your investment software did!” OK, venture capital may be slightly more sophisticated than this — but I have trouble with VCs who nobly claim that their business […] Read more »

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1) Revenues & Up-selling in a Recession: Related to Larry Chiang’s post this week on the topic, now read Level up for features instead of freemium?, in which Andrew Chen writes: “Everyone is familiar with freemium models – that is, make it free for most people, […] Read more »

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We publish often about the importance of selecting the right advisors and board members. Plenty of serial founders will happily share their ideas for how to do this, but even the most successful among them will tell you that it is not only as important a […] Read more »

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We linked earlier this week to a dialogue — or blogalogue — between VC Fred Wilson and WIRED Editor Chris Anderson about so-called Long Tail b-models and the many creative ways in which you can leverage them to generate revenue for your startup. We highlighted a […] Read more »

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Another great post from VC Fred Wilson, this one on one of our favorite topics: leadership. Fred wrote Wednesday of a discussion he had recently with a colleague about “the classic visionary leader entrepreneur.” Their conversation turned to Sigmund Freud, the 19th century father of psychology, […] Read more »

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WIRED Editor Chris Anderson, who is also author of the best-selling book, The Long Tail, recently published a blog post listing various new media b-models, a.k.a, “long tail” b-models where, generally, the content you’re “selling” is free or almost free — and you make money off […] Read more »

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