A VC: It's Not The Data, It's The Flow
My partner Brad and I were having lunch with Umair a couple months ago and we were talking about how we look for a unique data asset in all of our investments. And Umair scratched his head and said something like, "I don't think it's the data that's so valuable, it's the flow of the data through the service." Longtime readers know that I think Umair is one of the great strategic thinkers on the im
A VC: Paul Graham Tackles Two Issues In One Post
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has penned another one of his essays, this time tackling not one but two issues in it. The first is why the best Internet companies are not sold (think eBay, Google, Facebook). Paul's argument is simple; they would have sold but nobody offered them a price they were willing to accept so they just kept on going: Google's founders were willing to sell early on. They
A VC: Ten Questions About Entrepreneurs
I was interviewed yesterday by a journalist who is doing a television-style series on entrepreneurs which will be broadcast on the web starting this summer. He asked me somewhere around thirty questions about entrepreneurs. I didn't take notes but here are ten questions I remember and a short quick summary of my answer. What is entrepreneurship? It's the art of turning an idea into a business. Can
A VC: 10 Rules For Web Startups
Evan Williams of Odeo has a great ten rules list up on his blog for web startups. If you are doing a startup of any kind, give it a read. It's very good. Many of these rules have been said before by others, but that doesn't mean that they are any less useful. I am particularly fond of numbers 3, 9 & 10; #3: Be Casual We're moving into what I call the era of the "Casual Web" (and casual content c
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