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....

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...

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, ...

We were in a board meeting today and the founder/CEO made a comment about a deal he's working on and I said "well you learned that well in school." He smiled and said, "we didn't go to school" (meaning college). I didn't actually know that, but it did not surprise me. I have learned that where someo...

Andrew Chen is asking which startup's collapse will end the Web 2.0 Era? End the Web 2.0 Era?  Wait... so are we going to ditch open source, go back to high burn rates, long and slow builds, and not focusing on data at all?  How exciting for Microsoft! Back in 2005, Tim O'Reilly attached t...

I blogged last week my thoughts on why Hulu and other content owners should want to work with, not against, our portfolio company Boxee. Boxee's management team has been working hard on it's pitch to content owners and took the extra step this weekend of creating a wiki so that the entire Boxee comm...

Back in November, NBC Digital head George Kliavkoff left the company, but not without sending out a message to the troops.  In it, he cited that "NBCU has made significant strides in digital" and that he had done his job well enough that there really wasn't a need for him anymore. After NBC jus...

For those that don’t know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hulu's content partners. Unfortunately, Boxee has yet to be ...