"Not true about NYC and failure. Dave Morgan failed with real media and came roaring back with TACODA which is our biggest exit so far NY loves risk takers and accepts failure better than anywhere I know"
- Fred Wilson
"Not true about NYC and failure. Dave Morgan failed with real media and came roaring back with TACODA which is our biggest exit so far NY loves risk takers and accepts failure better than anywhere I know"
- Fred Wilson
"danny - i added your post at the bottom of mine as a related link. this just points to the fact that twitter has got to start providing some analytics tools."
- Fred Wilson
"True. But I wrote this post on a blackberry on a redeye coming back from talking at an entrepreneur meetup in seattle. VCs will travel if there's a good deal to be had"
- Fred Wilson
"Shri - i totally agree with you on this. but the details are in the implementation. i do not think a pay wall across the entire site is the way to go. i like what the FT has been doing for a few years now, which is you get cookied when you visit their domain. if you visit 10x per month or more, you are asked to pay. this is a very elegant execution of the freemium model, where you use free access to your content to bring readers who aren't regulars, but you use a subscription model to generate revenues from your most loyal readers."
- Fred Wilson
So, what...only sophisticated users will know to turn off/clear cookies? therefore it works?
- stanleyyork
"well LA has issues, particularly with the funding environment, but that's changing for the better. but if you started in Boston, Seattle, NYC, or a few other places, you might have found it easier going."
- Fred Wilson
"i only got 2.5 hours sleep last night scott. i don't have it in me to do that today. but i will. it could be a few more or less than two dozen."
- Fred Wilson
"totally agree about cultural issues. but the dozen to two dozen startup hotbeds around the world don't suffer from that. when we started flatiron in NYC in 1996, people thought we were crazy. hedge funds were the way to make money. now a lot of people look at the venture/startup ecosystem in NYC with jealousy."
- Fred Wilson
"there are a whole bunch of really successful $50mm to $150mm value tech startups in NYC. same with Boston, Boulder, Austin, Seattle, SoCal, europe, israel, india, china, australia, etc, etc i agree about the black swans. but tmtowtdi is true all up and down the scale of companies"
- Fred Wilson
I was using Firefox. Little by little Chrome won me over. Chrome works better for me. Once I overcame my addiction to the FF extensions it was Chrome all the way.
- Bob DeMarco
I'm still addicted to the extensions and don't think it's a bad addiction. FF gives way more value to an active web surfer than any other browser does
- Kirill Bolgarov
Yeah, it's my default now. Loads faster, faster with a small amount of tabs. I hate the color red on anything. I like the interface a lot. Sucks I had to stop doing delicious bookmarks, now they're all in the wrong folder in my bookmarks, but, oh well.
- Matt Robson