Andrew Weissman

“The fitness function of a venture capitalist — meaning the metrics of performance, the report card — is pretty pure. You show up with money, and one way or another more money has to come back than…

The folks at the Tribeca Film festival were kind (or silly) enough to ask me to write something for their Future of Film blog.

Which I did - entitled “The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get.”

Lou Reed wrote this line (my favorite lyric ever) in the context of relationships (I think). But it’s much more applicable than that.

Ideas for new businesses are amazing, wonderful, creative…

Tim Devane - who we luckily hired last year - wrote an essay about how he, a kid right out of college with little work experience, landed a job. Tim is a wonderful writer, but his top line tips…

The title of this online space is “Maximizing the serendipity around you” which comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and is as much of a universal business rule I’ve ever…

There has been much debate in the last week over platforms, holes, products and ecosystems.

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Back then, one of AOL’s…

I was thinking this morning that one way to create a service of real value is to ensure that the way a user experiences that service is commensurate with the value you are trying to deliver to the…

There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years.

There are new models of creating companies out of innovation: …

“Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning…and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. That’s why we often see good products with poor …

We all want to create or invest in platform businesses - those that enable other businesses or participants to add features, content, build other things into/onto the platform, extract associated but…