Fred Wilson post on when to sell.
The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile -
Vinod Khosla describes the areas of the Internet and Mobile that investors should be fishing in.
When Will The Post-PC Era Arrive? It Just Did.
The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day -
Halfway to living up to its moniker with over 250 startups, 500 Startups held a series of demo days this week and last, where a group of 33 scrappy startups presented their wares to investors in both New York and San Francisco. As we are wont to do with these things, we visited the 500 Startups offices in Mountain View and interviewed the seven that we thought were the most interesting, from both an investor and consumer standpoint.
The startups chosen spanned all sorts of market territory, from a novel take on media-based eCommerce to an SaaS for farmers, but what they all had in common was a unique approach to the problem they were trying to solve as well as inkling of that other indeterminate thing that makes a startup great.
Will Facebook Really Create 1,000 Millionaires?
Facebook to go public, raise $5B -
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
Why Adreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7 Billion
Cowen: Google’s Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012
Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.
There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don’t see them is a phenomenon I callschlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.