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avc.blogs.com is a personal blog at avc.blogs.com about startups and business. Since 2006, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 156 times, most often “A VC: If You Are Looking For Something More Entrepreneurial”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- /a_vc/2008/03/our-run-in-with.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-11
- A VC: If You Are Looking For Something More Entrepreneurial2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-18
- Battening Down The Hatches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-04
- Fred Wilson: Social Blogging (more "lightweight, social, and interactive" than just blogging)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-07
What Hacker News says?
People call it "calling in rich". http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/07/vc_clich_of_the_3.html
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on “Morgan Stanley bought 63M Facebook shares ($2.3B) to create a floor around $38”Submitted Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI found the series of articles as a whole to be an enlightening account from the perspective of a restaurateur who tried new things in San Diego. This was Part of 5 of a series that begins here: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-... Prior to this aside from being a patron of restaurants my only knowledge of the restaurant biz was based on Setting the Table which Fred Wilson blogged about he…
Comment linking /a_vc/2007/01/setting_the_tab.html
on “Observations From a Tipless Restaurant, Part 5: Sex, Power and Tips”Submitted We Need A New Path To Liquidity as a story · 46 points
HN discussionFrom Fred Wilson's blog announcing the partnership[1]: To Paul and Rony’s credit, during that seven month courtship, they have built Indeed into the leader in the job search market. Their competitors will probably take exception to that comment, but our analysis of traffic, jobs indexed, and name recognition indicates that Indeed is the leader in pure job search. They did not need the money to start and maintain the…
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on “Indeed, An Almost Entirely Bootstrapped Job Search Giant, Gets A Monster Exit”Submitted I Got Lucky as a story · 45 points
HN discussionGreat post on an important topic. I also like Fred Wilson's advice: "Above all else, look for great judgment and ethics." http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/02/thoughts-on-cho.html
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on “How To Choose A Board Member”Submitted Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns as a story · 41 points
HN discussionHave you seen this: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/if-you-are-look.html ?
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on “Is there a site that lists startups that are hiring?”Submitted Venture Fund Economics as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI thought this was absolutely brilliant. There's a great discussion of it brewing at http://avc.blogs.com
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on “Pmarca: The three kinds of platform you meet on the Internet”Submitted Three Reasons To Use Disqus as a story · 35 points
HN discussionA couple of days ago, Fred Wilson made a relevant post about his near escape from the auction rate bond market. Its an interesting read, with more detail on how these bonds usually function and how the recent malfunction developed. From what I understood, these bonds don't lose all their liquidity overnight. After they lose their "primary" liquidity (by failing an auction), there is a secondary market that kicks in…
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on “20% Of Valley Startups Can’t Get To Their Cash”Submitted Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI agree that if you're starting a new venture and you don't have optimism, you won't get anywhere. But if you also hide from reality, you're toast as well. This stuff isn't from 'sky is falling' kooks -- it's from Warren Buffet and Jim Rogers and Paul Krugman... a long list of the great financial and economic minds. Here it's Soros. But they'll all be ignored until it's too late. People don't want bad news, just goo…
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on “Soros: "superbubble" that has been swelling for a quarter of a century is finally bursting”Submitted Fred Wilson: Saying No as a story · 34 points
HN discussionHere's an example of how these gyrations affect municipal bond investments: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/our-run-in-with.html Another example is Comerica's apparent misstep with its money market funds: http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/11/credit-crunch-hits-start-u... You'll start seeing more stories like these.
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on “Warren Buffett: $516 trillion bubble is a disaster waiting to happen”Submitted Ten questions about entrepreneurs as a story · 33 points
HN discussionFred says the 10billion is not real http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/09/facebook-really.html
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on “Facebook at $10 Billion Valuation, Microsoft to Invest?”Submitted A VC: The Fiction of 20% as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThat would be very cool... I've read that scanning regular barcodes with a cameraphone is difficult, but I believe there are some people making headway with it. If it were music, I'd rather just make a call to a number, have it listen to whatever song is in the background, and then download it for me. Fred Wilson has talked about txt based commerce a bit as well - http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/01/texting-in-purc.ht…
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on “:CueCat is back”Submitted Fred Wilson: Am I Bored With Web 2.0? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttp://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/12/social-blogging.html
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on “The Next Social Network: WordPress”Submitted Fred Wilson: "Blown away" by Xobni as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAlso, I'm not sure how thrilled the seduction community and NLP community will be that all of their books are now online. I don't normally advocate piracy, but I think this is a really unique opportunity for grokking Net Natives circa 2007. (Net Natives as used by Fred Wilson: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/06/net_natives.html) update: When I say it's a unique opportunity for grokking net natives, I mean this in the…
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on “It's Still Very Early, But Scribd Looks Like A Winner”Submitted One A Day as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted AVC: Tough Times Ahead for the Web (...or not?) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporate Venture Capital (argument against Google VC) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted A VC's thoughts on Paul's essay as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fred Wilson: Time Is On Your Side, Yes It Is as a story · 21 points
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