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Wallstrip Chat: Daniel Ha and connecting bloggers
Julie visits Menlo Park, and has a conversation with Disqus co-founder Daniel Ha. Disqus is a new service on the Web that connects bloggers from various communities.
Tags: Co-founder, daniel ha, disqus, menlo park, silicon valley, fred wilson, comment, blogs, howard lindzon, julie alexandria, wallstrip, stocks, stock stock exchange, nyse, nasdaq, invest, investing, Internet, Blogging, Blogger
Videos 2008-06-16
Fred Wilson says it best…
A great post by Fred Wilson explaining the differences in cost between a start-up today and six years ago.  Some points are similar to my previous post on the subject.
Tags: General, Fred Wilson
Blog posts 2006-12-21
Saks Fifth Avenue.(People)(Brief Article)
ANDREW JENNINGS has been appointed president and chief merchandising officer of Saks Fifth Avenue. He will report to Fred Wilson, who has just been ... ANDREW JENNINGS has been appointed president and chief merchandising officer of Saks Fifth Avenue. He will report to Fred Wilson,...
Tags: Fred Wilson, officer, Saks Fifth Avenue
Research articles 2004-02-27
New brass at Saks seeks recovery from sales slips; Posh chain needs to get back on pedestal; growth lags Neiman's despite recovery.(News)
Byline: kirsti mccabe On April 12, Saks Fifth Avenue will get a new president and chief merchant, Andrew Jennings. Terry Schaefer will become senior vice president of marketing on March 24. The two hires-part of a campaign by newly named Chief E...
Tags: Fred Wilson, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Inc., sales
Research articles 2004-03-01
comScore's Media Metrix 360: A Very Big Deal
Fred Wilson submits: I started working with the comScore SCOR team in 1999 when my prior firm, Flatiron Partners, provided first round capital to the founders. I served on the board for nine years and dropped off last summer with a lot of mixed emotions. I've always been...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, comScore Inc.
External links 2009-06-01
Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?
Fred Wilson submits: I just bought a replacement part at an online store I've never shopped in before. I was dreading the checkout process since I have not committed my various credit cards to memory. But thankfully this store offered checkout with Paypal. I clicked on it, entered...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, eBay Inc.
External links 2009-05-26
The Internet as an Operating System and Maximizing User 'Default' Behavior
Fred Wilson submits: When you want to search for something on the Internet, most people go to Google GOOG without even thinking about it. When I want to buy something on the Internet, my default behavior is to go to Amazon AMZN and search...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.
External links 2009-05-21
WSJ's Social Media Rules for Journalists
Fred Wilson submits: The WSJ gave its journalists some rules about conduct in social media this week according to Editor and Publisher. Most of them are good common sense rules for everyone using social media. But there are several that I think are wrong and should be rethought....
Tags: Media, Internet, Fred Wilson, News Corp.
External links 2009-05-14
Singing the American Express Blues
Fred Wilson submits: A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend who is a very successful entrepreneur. He told me he'd been having some problems recently with American Express AXP. They'd been denying charges and giving him all sorts of grief. Our lunch turned into...
Tags: Financial, Fred Wilson, American Express Co.
External links 2009-05-04
The Power of Passed Links, Continued
Fred Wilson submits: Ben Straley left the comment that inspired my initial post on this topic. And last night, he left another comment that is a blog post in its own right. So here it is in its entirety. I hope you find it as useful as I...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, Google Inc.
External links 2009-04-20
Facebook: When You're a Public Company Without Being Public
Fred Wilson submits: This happened a bit with Google early this decade and it was certainly part of their decision to go public reluctantly. Now it is happening to Facebook, and has been happening for some time. There has been an active secondary market in employee shares in...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-04-16
NASDAQ vs. Dow: Built for the 21st Century versus Tired Multinationals
Fred Wilson submits: At the end of November last year, I wrote a post comparing the NASDAQ and the Dow and suggested that the NASDAQ was a much better place to be investing than the Dow. Of course, to some extent, I was talking my own game because...
Tags: US Market, Fred Wilson
External links 2009-04-15
Skype: Selling the Company Back to Its Founders
Fred Wilson submits: I read with interest the Brad Stone piece in the NY Times yesterday suggesting that Niklas and Janus might buy Skype back from eBay EBAY. I think this is a wonderful idea and I hope it happens. Back when eBay bought Skype in 2005, I...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, eBay Inc.
External links 2009-04-11
Why You Won't Be Seeing the Palm Pre on Me
Fred Wilson submits: I was emailing with Ken Berger over the weekend. He went to the Palm Pre PALM launch event on Friday (here's Ken's take on the phone) and was wondering why I had not mentioned it yet on this blog. I am quite excited by the...
Tags: Gadgets, Fred Wilson, Palm Inc.
External links 2009-06-08
Giving Bing a Chance
Fred Wilson submits: I'm not optimistic that Microsoft's MSFT new Bing search service will be able to displace Google GOOG as the king of search, but I am going to give it a chance. I think the biggest challenge is not convincing users that it is better (or...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-06-14
In Praise of 'Slow' Capital
Fred Wilson submits: Last Friday my partner Brad attended a company offsite for our portfolio company Meetup.com. On monday of this week during our regular weekly meeting, he gave our firm all five of us a report on the day which he said was excellent. One thing that...
Tags: US Market, Fred Wilson
External links 2009-10-30
Has Blog Reading Gone Mainstream?
Fred Wilson submits: I was reading Technorati's State Of The Blogosphere report yesterday. It has a lot of data on bloggers but not so much on readers. And I'm more curious about readers than bloggers. I believe that blog reading has gone completely mainstream based largely on discussions...
Tags: Internet, Fred Wilson
External links 2009-10-26
Who Decides When to Exit?
Fred Wilson submits: There's a post on the 37 Signals blog by Jason Fried saying that the Mint sale to Intuit INTU was a bad move for a host of reasons and suggesting that the VCs behind Mint had forced it. It reminds me of similar discussions about...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Fred Wilson, Intuit Inc.
External links 2009-09-20
Are Musicians Shifting from MySpace to Tumblr
Fred Wilson submits: MySpace has always been the social media destination for musicians and their fans. The rumored acquisition of iLike (new mgmt's first purchase), suggests that music and entertainment will be even more of a focus for MySpace going forward as it looks to differentiate itself...
Tags: Media, Fred Wilson, News Corp.
External links 2009-08-18
More Thoughts on Doubling Down
Fred Wilson submits: I wrote a post recently called "Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand" that was about Yahoo!'s YHOO decision to bail on search and Microsoft's MSFT decision to double down on it. It was also about new forms of search, like real time search,...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, US Market, Fred Wilson, comScore Inc.
External links 2009-08-09