Richard Wong
Richard Wong is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners.
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From CTIA: The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)
[Richard Wong, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, submitted this piece to VentureBeat.]
Mobile has never been hotter with the iPhone, Android, the explosion in mobile advertising, and the rise of mobile apps, but, you’d never know it walking around the mobile conference called CTIA, held here in San Diego today.
The CTIA show that once was the key meeting place for the mobile industry seems less and less relevant with each passing year. We wrote about this… Continue Reading
View from Barcelona: The end of the operator-dominated era?
Editor’s note: This is an OpEd piece from Richard Wong, venture capitalist at Accel partners who specializes in mobile investments. We asked him for some notes about what is happening at the major mobile conference going on in Barcelona.
It’s February again, when leaders in mobile, internet and the media converge on Barcelona for its annual conference. More than 50,000 attendees from just about every mobile company in the world are crowding into Barcelona’s Fira Montjuic… Continue Reading
Get real: Opening up the wireless jungle
[Editor's note: Richard Wong is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners]
In recent weeks, there has been much discussion on how to simplify the barriers to mobile innovation. Beyond all of the press and hype on the IPhone launch, most of the discussion has centered on the public policy issues of “opening up wireless” to create net neutrality in the wireless space. For example, Skype recently submitted a petition to the FCC to try to push… Continue Reading
The end of the mobile MENS Club
[Venture capitalist Richard Wong reports from CTIA 2007 - Orlando Florida]
Just a short few years ago, the wireless industry used to be largely influenced (or controlled some might say), by the wireless MENS club. That is to say, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens (MENS), largely European vendors, were the dominant players in mobile handsets, and in providing the underlying network infrastructure.
The wireless world is shifting (if the recent troubles at Motorola and Siemens weren’t… Continue Reading