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Fred Wilson
Sep 29, 2013
Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: My guess is there are also some angels who were popular when they represented a $25k check but won’t Read more

Fred Wilson
Sep 16, 2013
I am a big fan of exit interviews. I have learned more doing exit interviews than most other management techniques. When people are on their way out and have no fear of saying exactly what they think, you can learn Read more

Fred Wilson
Aug 19, 2013
Phil Sugar left a great comment on last week's MBA Mondays about Turning Your Team: Do not think that the reason you aren't scaling is because you need to bring in outside management. That will kill a team.  This is Read more

Fred Wilson
Aug 15, 2013
This has been a theme of mine since Roelof Botha put it in my head a few years ago. He said that entrepreneurs should approach building a company with the same passion that they have for building a product. I've Read more

Fred Wilson
Aug 12, 2013
A serial entrepreneur I know tells me "you will turn your team three times on the way from startup to a business of scale." What he means is that the initial team will depart, replaced by another team, which in Read more

Fred Wilson
Aug 5, 2013
I finally picked up the Isaacson book on Steve Jobs. Figured enough time has passed to give the proper amount of perspective. It must be a big book because I've spent the past two weekends on it and I am Read more

Fred Wilson
Aug 1, 2013
For the past few years, I've been using a third party service called Pandamian to power a table of contents for MBA Mondays. They've been awesome to work with but the honest truth is I would prefer to have this Read more

Fred Wilson
Jul 8, 2013
AVC regular William Mougayar is building an education oriented community for entrepreneurs called Startup Management. He soft launched it in the past week. The idea, as I understand it, is to aggregate and tag blog posts about startup management from Read more

Fred Wilson
Jul 1, 2013
In the comments to Valuation vs Ownership, Mike Nolan said: Just today I talked with an entrepreneur developing a SAAS in an educational space. His questioned focused on how to set up his first LLC and be prepared for funding Read more