Fred Wilson

like ... weight lifter? - tylergillies

"It would be great for someome (maybe everyone via a wiki) to start cataloging these different data store technologies and what each is good for and bad for" - Fred Wilson

@Shaun ...wow! "9,000 petabytes of JSON/JS data...!" huh! what? clearly, I'm going to have start weaning myself off reliance to just SQL backends and start looking around that what else is going on. that's good knowledge. - .LAG liked that

"Thanks james. I'd like to get to know you at some point. Let me know if I can contact you about that" - Fred Wilson

"Awesome. I'll check it out" - Fred Wilson

"Of course it does steve. Were just debating what the new model is. Its like the auto business or the mortgage business. Ppl are still going to need cars and homes, but the way they are developed and sold will change. Same with VC" - Fred Wilson

"Why don't you get into the business steve and start a fund where there is no mgmt fee, all carry, you've got your own capital at risk, and you do 80/20 deals with entrepreneurs You could single handedly save the business. I don't quite have the guts for it myself and I also have partners who aren't as "out there' as I am I think it could work" - Fred Wilson

"Yes. But it will make a difference. There are some good firms with good portfolios out there that would be well served with a return of the IPO market As for our bet, I'd prefer something simple. Let's go back over the past 20 years and calculate the avg number of VC backed IPOs per year My bet is we'll see that number or more in 2010" - Fred Wilson

"Kevin Rose tried that. What more would you like?" - Fred Wilson

"True. I've learned to skim/speed read" - Fred Wilson

"We need digests of the comments. I call it 'comment cliff notes'. Someone's gonna do it and it will suck a lot more people in than the current approach" - Fred Wilson

"Yeah. Tumblr works that way too. I post many of tumblr posts via email" - Fred Wilson

"Actually it does steve. When a VC fund works, the majority of the comp is success based What pisses you off is the compensation for the unsuccessful investors!" - Fred Wilson

"I am a big fan of secondary private markets. Google AVC secondary markets and you'll find a bunch of posts I've written (hopefully) I don't think IPOs are appropriate exits for the vast majority of venture backed companies. Maybe the top ten or twenty percent of our investments will make good public companies" - Fred Wilson

"I like your attitude but that rat dropping comment was tough to take!" - Fred Wilson

"We first have to decide how we want to invest in this sector. We are still working on it" - Fred Wilson

"Pete: I love the notion of the SQL trap. I've seen so many of our companies get caught in it. Thanks for sending me that post. I loved it" - Fred Wilson

"There's a lot to like about YC. They've created a whole new class of venture capital it seems" - Fred Wilson

"I agree with you both. But its a market. Somehow the terms you are railing about (rightfully) are getting set by the market" - Fred Wilson

"I'm not interested in that. It won't earn its bonus anyway. My bet is about the IPO market coming back, plain and simple" - Fred Wilson

"i've never been taken with the reddit community. i agree the services are similar and i know reddit is a great service, but for some reason, i visit HN and techmeme, but not reddit and digg. what more would you like to know about MongoDB?" - Fred Wilson

"james, can you point us in the direction of the startups that have made progress solving the core algorithm problems? I agree that it is unlikely that a VC like me would give such a thing a "good look" on my own. but one of the reasons I maintain this blog is that the community here can see things like this that i can't see and show me the way. thanks for a great comment fred" - Fred Wilson

"ditto. the flickr feature does pretty much the same thing dave set up almost two years ago. if it weren't for dave, we'd have had to wait for two years for this feature. in fact, dave kept me on flickr, because otherwise i would have switched to twitpic, which i did not want to do" - Fred Wilson

"i think it would be great to create a wiki (maybe one exists) for applications where NoSQL makes more sense than mysql" - Fred Wilson

"thanks for highlighting the ASK HN posts. I've never used them but they sound terrific. i wish paul would buy hackernews.com. that's my only beef." - Fred Wilson

"You are right, it is business 101 and its important that we keep coming back to them" - Fred Wilson