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3 months ago

in Co-Investors on A VC
You need a new investor at each round to re-price the company. Right?
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fredwilson Ideally but we do that ourselves sometimes

3 months ago

in Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won’t start now on Scobleizer
Someone is trying to sell my a 1949 t-shirt on Facebook. I wonder why? Very clever. What can I sell??

3 months ago

in What Is A Good Venture Return? on A VC
Great post and comments. Could you do a post (or expand these comments) on angel investors in technology start-ups of the kind we see in the Cambridge Cluster, UK? It seems that angels can expect a higher loss than 1/3, probably 1/2 and with the added risk of washout rounds. Also comment on how entrepreneurs/founders can best manage the many angels, or is that only found in high technology clusters?
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fredwilson Angels will have to make money on fewer wins with bigger multiples

Ron Conway is famous for losing money on every investment he made as an
angel in the late 90s except one, Google

The return on his entire portfolio was quite good

4 months ago

in Flip Cam Fun on A VC
Strange. Just ordered a Flip myself. If I lived in the USA, I could have cancelled and used your link!
Why Vimeo? Another investment?
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fredwilson no, although we cam really close to investing in vimeo as a spinoff of college humor, but it was complicated and it never happened.

i don't have any loyalties when it comes to video sharing services and i mosty use youtube, but i like to mix it up

4 months ago

in Is Silicon Valley seeing an economic turnaround? on Scobleizer
Playfish video "unbelievable, brilliant, thanks".

4 months ago

in New Feedly combines Google Reader, friendfeed, Twitter in great way for social network addicts on Scobleizer
Great video - almost like a lecture. Can you add the question "How are you funded?" to "Who are you?" and "What do you do?"?
Even better if you could place the screen/monitor at the same level as the interviewee's head so it is easier for you to pan round for the screen shots and will make much better viewing for us. We will be able to see the screen!
How many .tv sites do you use?

4 months ago

in Recommendations for the Twitter crowd: GoodRec on Scobleizer
The comments I sent to GoodRec:
How do I make a rec? I cannot see how to add a place.....maybe just me...
Why can you not fill the database with places from databases so we can just rec?
We need a "pub" category for the UK and elsewhere
Great idea. Saw it on Scobleizer

5 months ago

in When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs on A VC
Great conversation and good blog - I passed it on in my talk at the weekend to Cambridge University Entrepreneurs. Companies in the Cambridge Cluster, UK, need investment to develop technology; the options to build a team and the skills to sell the company. Just a pity that some entrepreneurs spend the investment on "flash" items, as other people have commented, but it gives the rest of us a chance! It must be frustrating to be a small shareholder in Craigslist waiting to cash in and start your own company- it is like being chained to a life-style company but with a nest-egg!
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fredwilson That's why I want to see a secondary market develop for private company stock

6 months ago

in Best growing newish services of 2008 (is Louis Gray right?) on Scobleizer
How many of the top ten are angel and/or VC funded? How many are based in Silicon Valley?

7 months ago

in Look inside Meraki, wifi for cities on Scobleizer
Great videos. When I go to the Meraki home page, I am "not authorised" to see a list of resellers. So how do I buy these in the UK? Maybe I missed something on their site.

7 months ago

in Mike Arrington is wrong about Google search on Scobleizer
Thanks Robert. I have commented on my own site. See if I get more comments than just me. Seems a great idea and you are ahead of the curve!

7 months ago

in Boxee on A VC
Invite received. Thanks.

7 months ago

in Boxee on A VC
From Boxee: "....you may have to wait a few weeks before you receive your invite".
Any chance that readers of your blog (read Fan Club) can be put up the waiting list on the alpha trials or given a separate trial? Of course Hulu is not UK OK! so we cannot join in all the way.
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fredwilson I hate the phrase fan club.

I am as much a fan of you phillip as you are of me

And I just sent you an invite

Pls let me know what you think
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fredwilson I will send an invite

8 months ago

in Apeer brings collaboration to multimedia files on Scobleizer
Another great interview and so good to see that they already had the large screens up so you could get some shots of the product in action. Sending the link to a designer friend who could use Apeer. Looking for more of your videos to watch. Come back to Cambridge, UK, soon and put us on the Scoble Show!

9 months ago

in EverTrail on the iPhone on Geoff feedback
Does the iPhone use satellites for GPS or triangulation from the base stations? Where are the satellite detectors on the phone? Enjoy the walk.

9 months ago

in Zemanta on A VC
I picked up Zemanta from your posts and it helps me with my blog. It is a pity that the user cannot train it or add URLs and phrases; or at least I cannot directly. Zemanta means we all need pictures in Flickr. Any more details on the sort of deal you have done? Will you flip Zemanta to Delaware? Will you be bringing in a CEO? Any details on the equity so we an learn how you have put the deal together and what others might expect?
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fredwilson philip - i just read this on the zemanta blog

http://www.zemanta.com/blog/first-year-after-se...

"The development part of the team is working hard to finalize our next release: Zemanta is Getting Personal! With the release, we shifted our tool from being a general suggestion service to personalized service. You’ll be able to upload your sources and limit the suggestion pool to your sources, you’ll be able to search through your Flickr account and point Zemanta to your Twitter account to get related blogs from your friends."
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fredwilson all of this will be figured out in good time Philip. for sure the tech team will stay in slovenia where they have built a real powerhouse team.

9 months ago

in Use Twitter or FriendFeed and win a new Seagate Drive on Scobleizer
How about standing in a punt in Cambridge, UK? That would test our resolve!

9 months ago

in My Web 2.0 Keynote Presentation on A VC
Great slides but perhaps too much history - reminds me of a Microsoft talk I watched on video from TechCruch. One slide could show all the companies with a time-line and how they connected; entrepreneurs, angels and/or VCs. Then we could keep it as a poster. We want to know your views on the future. Great to share the slides and look forward to watching the talk. Live like TechCrunch? Wish you were coming to CEC9, UK this week!

10 months ago

in Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder on A VC
How did you get hold of avc.com?
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fredwilson I waited and waited for it to become available and then made them an offer
they couldn't refuse when they stopped using it actively

10 months ago

in Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder on A VC
This is a great lesson to us all and our companies. It would be good to have the lessons listed. I bet if you had been selling a product, you would have seen your dollar income decline rapidly! Good luck to Nathan.

1 year ago

in Flying over the radar (of Fred Wilson) on Zemanta Official Blog
I came to Zemanta via Fred Wilson and am updating my old posts with your software. Glad you won at Seedcamp - thanks guys!

1 year ago

in Trying Zemanta on A VC
Zementa is great and I am updating some of my old posts. Looking forward to hearing more about Zementa and Seedcamp at CUTEC in Cambridge, UK, last week. I am not sure that one week of Seedcamp is quite like Y Cominbator but with Saul Klein in the driving seat it will not be far behind. Interestingly he has recruited Seedcamp companies from outside the UK - a pity he did not base it in Cambridge Cluster, UK!

1 year ago

in Doriot Quote Of The Day on A VC
So why do some many investors move up the value chain investing larger amounts at later stages or moving onto MBOs? You do not see many private equity companies in this space. But it is the space to be - where it all happens with people and dreams.
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fredwilson Its about money. Let's say we own 20pcnt of a company and we have to invest 5mm over five years to get to an exit. Let's say that exit is 250mm. That's 50mm of value for 5mm of investment or 10x. The partners in the firm get 20pcnt of 45mm or 9mm

Let's say you buy a company for 100mm. And then you sell it three years later for 200mm. That's 2x but a 100mm gain. The partners in the firm get 20pcnt of 100mm or 20mm

More money in less time

Early stage investing is largely done by people who value the adventure as much or more than the money

Fred

1 year ago

in Taking Risk and Mitigating Risk on A VC
This is great stuff. Can you do a video which we can use as an educational tool for budding entrepreneurs? Not all see the importance of building value and staying with their dream. Great post

1 year ago

in Sitting next to TechCrunch France at LIFT on Scobleizer
Bon jour monsieur! Issuu.com est tres bon. It is great and easy to use. I have uploaded two documents to the Issuu site and they look so good and are very easy to navigate round. I need to move from slide.com; the pace of change of technology.
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