Tag: fred-wilson
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Andy Sylvester on making blogging a priority
Andy Sylvester: The other important part of the habit was making it a priority (I tried writing at lunch before, but ran out of time after web surfing, so I changed the order and – voila – I was able to write!). Writing first works for Andy. It also works for others like Fred Wilson…
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Fred Wilson on owning your content
Fred Wilson: I would never outsource my content to some third party. I blog on my own domain using open source software (WordPress) that I run on a shared server that I can move if I want to. It is a bit of work to set this up but the benefits you get are enormous.…
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Twitter is solving the wrong problem, again
Twitter: We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming (which is all except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean). Twitter’s largest issue* is gaining and retaining active users. The platform hasn’t meaningfully…
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Fred Wilson’s public record
Fred Wilson: AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He goes on to say that this has created a public record. A record that shows when he was right and when he was wrong. And…
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How Microsoft is doing
Fred Wilson: Even more impressive in many ways, is what Satya Nadella has done at Microsoft. He slayed the Windows Everywhere albatross that was holding Microsoft back for most of the post Gates era and has made Microsoft relevant again in the world of tech. Windows is enjoying a resurgence, the Office app suite is finally…
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Farewell
Fred Wilson recently published a post that I can wholeheartedly agree with him on. Regarding employees leaving your organization he gives the following advice: The thing I caution against is the tendency to get upset at departures and departing employees. I’ve seen leaders take the mob boss approach of “your are dead to me now”…
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Is the Apple Watch a flop?
Fred Wilson going over his predictions from last year: The Apple Watch was a flop. This is the one I took the most heat on. So I feel a bit vindicated on this point. No sources cited here. I have read many “the Apple Watch is a flop” pieces but none of them have convinced me…
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Stop calling businesses unicorns
Me, on Twitter early this morning from bed: Startup culture is such that the word unicorn is used to describe a successful business. Imagine if the culture fostered success more often. Then, Fred Wilson on his blog this morning: I hate the word unicorn. It’s using fantasy to describe something very much reality. But I…
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Trying iOS, Android, and Windows
Fred Wilson: I plan to go back to iOS when the next iPhone ships, and then back to Android six months after that. In this way, I can stay current on both operating systems and ecosystems which I think is useful in my business. I wish I could do this again. For a time I…
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Blogging every weekday for 30 days
Who’s in for the challenge? I’ll give it a shot. Fred Wilson pointed to Lockhart Steele and Elizabeth Spiers. Spiers mentioned trying it for 30 days so I thought that was a good idea. Writing has never been an issue for me. I’ve typed a bunch of posts here. But I’ve strayed from the personal…
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Yes, it is more work to subscribe than to follow, but that is OK with me
Fred Wilson, in A Founder’s Notebook, describing how “hard” it is to subscribe to a blog that isn’t on Tumblr but is on the open internet. My only complaint is that its not on Tumblr, where it would be an instant and easy follow. It takes more work to follow a blog when its on…
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When will Bitcoin be valueable?
Bitcoin is going a little nuts this week. But the price at which a bitcoin exchanges at isn’t the only factor by which you should value the currency. Far, far from it. As Fred Wilson puts it: Everyone focuses on the price of Bitcoin these days and it is no wonder why. But for Bitcoin…
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I’d love to see Windows Phone become the third horse in the smartphone OS race
Fred Wilson, on _Android and iOS_: But I find myself rooting hard for Apple now. I sense the danger they are in and I don’t want either smartphone OS to be so dominant that we lose the level playing field we have now. It’s very important for startups, innovation, and an open mobile ecosystem for…
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Management as administration
Joel Spolsky guest-posting on Fred Wilson’s AVC blog about The Management Team: This is my view of management as administration—as a service corps that helps the talented individuals that build and sell products do their jobs better. Attempting to see management as the ultimate decision makers demotivates the smart people in the organization who, without…
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Do sanity checks on your reporting
In my extremely limited experience Board meetings are generally prepared for hours or minutes before they’re held. The vast majority of the information may be collected a few days prior but a lot of little tweaks are done just before game time. This is usually for good reason. The leadership team of the company that…
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Om on writing
Happy Anniversary (sort of) to Om Malik of Gigaom for a decade of blogging. I haven’t shared much about Om on this blog save this experience from Wordcamp 2007 in San Francisco when I wasn’t feeling very well at all (travel often makes me sick). When lunch break hit, I was hurting pretty badly. So…