Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three kids and lives in New York City.

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Recently From Fred's Blog

Retention - Tue, 12 Feb 2013
MBA Mondays: Revenue Models - Mobile - Mon, 11 Feb 2013
Peer Progress and Regulation 2.0 - Sun, 10 Feb 2013
Video Of The Week: My Talk With Startup Milan - Sat, 09 Feb 2013
Draw Quest - Fri, 08 Feb 2013

Fred's Blog Entries at USV

Networks And The Enterprise - 8-30-2012

Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don't think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus...
Brewster - 7-12-2012

Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books. It makes no sense. The mobile address book should be hyperconnected to our digital life, informed by it,...
The Twitter "Patent Hack" - 4-18-2012

Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. I've been aware of this effort inside of Twitter for a while and I...

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Wallstrip Chat: Daniel Ha

Posted 2009-11-02

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Behind The Money: Hacking education at Union Square Ventures

Posted 2009-10-30

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Very nice terms, says Sabet of Boxee round

Posted 2009-11-02

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Fred Wilson and Chris Dixon at Clickable's Interesting Cafe

Posted 2009-10-30