Writing

We are now seeing a wave of longtime private companies coming public and with that we are getting data on usage, financial performance, and a host of other issues that is very useful market data. I spent some time looking [...]  Read more

Well it looks like NYC is finally going to get congestion pricing , a technique used successfully in a number of cities around the world to reduce the number of cars on the road and increase the investment in mass [...]  Read more

We’ve been trying a big ambitious experiment in NYC over the last five years. We are training over 5,000 teachers to teach computer science classes in elementary school, middle school, and high school. We call it CS4All . It sounds [...]  Read more

My colleague Nick wrote a post today about his productivity system . Nick’s system is way more elaborate than mine, but everyone has to find their own way of getting things done. What I found most interesting about Nick’s post [...]  Read more

High growth companies need to have a strong finance function. You can’t drive a car (or a plane) without some instrumentation. Most importantly, you need to know when you are going to run out of gas (or electricity). The mission [...]  Read more

This past week Laura Shin did an interview with Vitalik Buterin , the founder of the Ethereum project. I am going to run a video of that conversation next week. Laura started her interview with Vitalik by playing for him [...]  Read more

The AVC comments has been experiencing a wave of comment spam that has largely been replies to legit comments. I appreciate the community for flagging it and our moderators for nuking it. Keeping the comments free from spam is important [...]  Read more

When early stage investors make an equity (angel, seed, Srs A, Srs B) investment, they typically negotiate for something called a pro-rata right which gives them the right to maintain their ownership in the company by investing in future rounds [...]  Read more

The most common caller on my Android phone is Scam Likely. I am sure that most of you are in a similar situation. Last week we were driving and two calls came into The Gotham Gal’s phone which was bluetoothed [...]  Read more