Fred Wilson - LeWeb 2008 interview
Fred Wilson is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of Union Square Ventures, twitters under @fredwilson and blogs on avc.com about web technologies, finance and venture capital.
We talk about
- why he is interested in the ways the web changes the business world and how internet companies can - while America is facing the downturn - grow and actually take market shares from existing businesses
- why he has, despite of the down turn, an optimistic outlook for web-based companies and will invest aggressively
- his fields of investment and the restructuring of the media industries
- characteristics of the kind of businesses he is interested in
- why the area of finance is in great need of being reinvented
- I think the time has come to change the way that consumer finance business works and make it work better for the consumer and be more transparent for the consumer
- why consumers should start to manage their finances on their own and how the web could help here
- why he started to invest in European companies and why it is difficult to finance projects based in Asia
- in which areas of (web) technology Europe is ahead of the States and more innovative
- why European entrepreneurs should rather take a global approach when doing business and some advantages of European entrepreneurs over their American counterparts
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