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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