I spent some time this morning putting together my deck for my "There's No Such Thing As A Crystal Ball" talk tomorrow. Since I've already blogged this "meme" and got awesome comments on it (several of which have found there way into the talk), I figure I should keep going by posting my first draft ...

Image via Wikipedia I was asked to speak to a group of entrepreneurs later this week. I agreed to do it and asked them what they wanted me to talk about. I got this response: this group would find it particularly interesting to hear from Fred about the technologies and technology strategies that he ...

This is one of the top stories of the day? Seriously? A company moves and one blog links to it. TechMeme shark: jumped.  I think I'll go write a blog post about Twitter now....

Not many people labeled as Visionary really deserve the title.   Reid Hoffman definitely does.   He's proven it multiple times, both as an EVP at PayPal & founder/CEO/Chairman at LinkedIn, and as an insightful & early angel investor at Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Flickr...

Fred Wilson recently wrote about whether or not entrepreneurs need a college education.  He wrote, "Education is critically important. But you don't have to go to school to be educated and if being an entrepreneur is your goal in life, that's even more true." The other day I was having a discus...

Fenwick and West analyzed 128 venture financings completed in q4 2008 for companies headquartered in the bay area and found that there has been a significant increase in the proportion of down rounds, with this trend accelerating: “During the fourth quarter, up rounds exceeded down rounds 54% ...

Internet, startups, conferences Neil Roseman wrote: Late last fall, after discussion with some board members, I decided to apply to show some new features from Evri at DEMO 09, which we were about to start active development on. We got accepted, so now we really did have to get the stuff ready to sh...

Finding the capital necessary to take what looks like a great product from the 'garage' or university lab to the marketplace is difficult during the best of times. In today's environment, clean energy and technology entrepreneurs could probably identify even more with Tantalus, the character from Gr...

moar funny pictures   Have you seen Skittles.com lately?  It's now an aggregation of Twitter search, Facebook, YouTube, etc...  Instead of pages on Skittles.com, you essentially get pages from other social network sites, about Skittles, but at the Skittles URL.  Like the Matrix, ...

Peter Thiel, one of the Facebook VC's on why the deal with Twitter failed: In Facebook's first public confirmation of the talks, Thiel said the parties disagreed over price and structure when they seriously considered a deal last fall. "It became pretty clear it wasn't going to happen," Thiel says f...