Skillshare raises a round of funding and sets its targets on the nation.

"Wikipedia is a painful reminder of what the web could have been had the early vision of the internet as a shared, communal space not been co-opted by big business."

Ben Brooks nails it in talking about what's going on at Twitter.

Anil Dash writes about the various options for funding your startup outside of venture capital money.

Ben Horowitz reflects on his investment in Skype now that it has been bought by Microsoft.

"I tend to believe the following about all private companies:

- Information reported by interested parties is unreliable.
- Companies that are still raising money are not profitable."

Great post about paying for software.

Ben Horowitz covers the questions you should ask when thinking about selling your company.

Summary of the Goldman investment in Facebook.

Ben Horowitz writes about why $650,000,000 in one fund was the magic number.

Paul Graham writes about the changing funding landscape for startups.

"What the Valley might just need, I believe, isn't a host of new technologies. It first needs a host of new institutions, updated for 21st century economics (like those I wrote about last week). Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley are currently clusters of technological innovation — but what they might just have to become in the 21st century is clusters of innovation for our basic, fundamental economic institutions instead."

Dave Winer's thoughts about "angel gate" now that Aol bought TechCrunch.

Paul Graham's ideas about the future of startup funding.

"The solution is to develop new alarms. This can be a tricky business, because while the alarms that prevent you from overspending are so basic that they may even be in our DNA, the ones that prevent you from making bad investments have to be learned, and are sometimes fairly counterintuitive."

"If you run a company, you will experience overwhelming psychological pressure to be overly positive. Stand up to the pressure, face your fear, and tell it like it is."

An argument for why Foursquare is a good investment.

Nick Bilton interviews Fred Wilson about venture capital investing.

A somewhat useful metaphor for thinking of web services as governments.

Chris Dixon discusses how, for venture capital firms, an old name and proven track record does not necessarily mean as much as they think.