Wilson is the founder of Union Square Ventures, one of New York's best known venture capital firms.

Why is Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, "looking forward to a big week"? It could be that Twitter investor Fred Wilson is in town. Always exciting to have a board member around. But more likely, Dorsey is anticipating tomorrow's keynote, where Apple is expected to announce a built-in Twitter app for the iPhone.

Why is entrepreneur Loic Le Meur grinning from ear to ear? VC Fred Wilson declares that he's getting addicted to the "video Twittering" provided by Seesmic, Le Meur's new startup. But it's not clear that Wilson's going to put his money where his mouth is.

Why all the lists heading into 2008? Well, laziness. That, and the urge to reflect on the year gone by. No, mostly laziness. And in that spirit, we present you Valleywag's top 10 list of top 10 lists. Oh yeah — our lazy, it's meta.

BusinessWeek roped VC blogger Fred Wilson into putting a number on Facebook. "If I had to buy Facebook right now, I think $5 billion to $7 billion would be the right price." If I had to buy Facebook right now, I'd need more than $12 a post. And goodnight! Tip your waitresses.

VC blogger Fred Wilson isn't pleased with his firm's position on VC ratings site TheFunded.com. Specifically, Wilson doesn't think Union Square Ventures should be ranked so high. "I am flattered by it to some degree," Wilson writes on his blog. "But it bothers me." Here's 100-word version of how Wilson would fix TheFunded.

Silicon Alley Insider posted this shot, taken at Curbed's holiday party last night in New York. Sure, Wilson puts a kind, fatherly face on his blog. But as it would be with any VC worth his limited partners' salt, we're sure more than a few of Wilson's fundees have felt like that bull from time to time. Yeehaw!

Ventureblogger Fred Wilson is selling his iPhone because he can't unlock it. It is "driving [him] crazy sitting in the box it came in." He started the bidding at $250, but it is up to $375 for a straight purchase or $500 (half for charity) for one enterprising Dutch guy who wants Fred to read his pitch. [A VC]

Sick of picking on the little guys, VC blogger Fred Wilson took it upon himself today to explain "why early stage venture investments fail." Here are his two primary reasons, culled from a post far too long for your Friday afternoon.

What's with the bloggers throwing themselves down, dressed head-to-toe in red, in front of the Apple fanboy stampede? First egoblogger Robert Scoble took on the entire universe of Mac fans. Now Silicon Alley VC blogger Fred Wilson tells the world, "I fear Apple and I hate them. As much as Microsoft." What gives?

Venture capitalist and blogger, Fred Wilson is awfully touchy-feely when it comes to media.

Venture capitalist and blogger Fred Wilson has a lot to be thankful for, he tells us. "Three awesome kids," "a work life that is stimulating," and, of course, "a wife who loves me even though at times she threatens to kill me." If the image Wilson embedded with his post is any hint, it seems he might be having a little trouble pulling himself away from his laptop this holiday. Let's all take Mrs. Wilson's advice this holiday weekend, shall we?

VC blogger Fred Wilson gives Google and Yahoo too much credit: He's taking their "Inbox 2.0" initiatives to turn Gmail and Yahoo Mail into social networks seriously. He 's put together a chart comparing the "social graphs" — we think he means "number of users" — of some popular social networks versus Microsoft's Hotmail and AIM.com. Wilson estimates that Yahoo and Google, which aren't actually on the chart, have about 250 million and 60 million users. Here's the chart.

The best things in life are free — including advertising on Facebook. VC blogger Fred Wilson is putting his money where his mouth is, helping dissolve the hype around some of Facebook's new ad products by doing some real-world testing. Wilson tried the new targeting capabilities of Facebook Flyers. He writes, "So far, not much success. In fact, none." So far, according to the pictured chart, Wilson's ad has seen 435 impressions and received zero clicks. Thanks to word of mouth, the Facebook page Wilson created for Union Square Ventures, however, is garnering almost 1,000 pageviews a day — free of charge.

Wantrepreneurs are all talk. Actual entrepreneurs — like you, dear reader — know what the words they say mean. Blogging VC Fred Wilson makes an effort to help by defining the term "lead investor." I suspect anyone ambitious enough to benefit from his advice will be too impatient to wade through it. Forthwith, the 100-word version.

New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson admits it. It's not him, it's you. The guy has to tell you needy entrepreneurs out there "no" a lot. And he's getting better at it. Typically all it takes is a quick email reply along the lines of "it doesn't fit into our investment strategy" or "we don't invest in content businesses" or "it's too early stage" or "it's too late stage". But sometimes you people somehow get your piss-poor business plans past the front door. That's when Wilson gets to tell you "no" to your face and the fun starts.

Know those phantom vibrations that make you check your phone even when no one's calling? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, who competed in a Blackberry race on video early this year for the stock show Wallstrip, tells CNN that he gets them, but in a way that makes him more important than you. "Of course I get them. I've been getting them for over 10 years since I started with the pager-style BlackBerry."

So unfair: Venture capitalist and blogger Fred Wilson is handily winning a charity contest whose prize is a lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. We'd think Wilson, who sold Del.icio.us to Yahoo, could ring up Yang and have lunch anytime he likes. More deserving: The brash, grating Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, who would likely make Yang suffer by filming the entire meal. [AllThingsD]

"Facebook is unlike anything we have seen to date because its the first megatech company built by the generation that used the web before they had sex." [A VC]

Is the Internet boring? Well, generally speaking, duh. Except, of course, when blogging luminaries get into a scrap over whether it is. Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban started things a month ago when, in an offhand sentence, he declared the Internet "dead as a growth platform" because of a stagnation in the speed of home broadband connections. He reiterated his comments to Portfolio.com, and then repeated them on his blog. Say something often enough, and people start to notice. People like Web 2.0 venture capitalist Fred Wilson. A classic blogfight — observing the three rules of the genre — ensued.