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The Annual Computer Science Fair
Fred Wilson – Apr 3, 2019
Here in NYC, we are about halfway into a 10-year effort to get computer science classes into every public school building in NYC . We are already seeing significant impact and outcomes . Most of the students taking CS classes [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Working for a Startup
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2019
I got the idea for today’s Uncertainty Wednesday from seeing quite a few tweets in my timeline to the effect that startups don’t really have meaningful upside for employees. Tracing these tweets back, led me to this post titled “working [...] Read more
The Shed
Fred Wilson – Apr 2, 2019
Yesterday morning, in raw, windy, 30 degree weather in NYC, I took a walk up the Highline to Hudson Yards. As I made the turn west at 29th street, I saw The Shed emerge through the tall buildings. The Shed [...] Read more
The IPO Bonanza
Fred Wilson – Apr 1, 2019
After predicting an IPO bonanza in my new year's day post in 2015, and being largely wrong about it for four years, we are finally seeing it happen. I am not exactly sure what it is about this year, as [...] Read more
World After Capital: Freedom to Share
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital continues the chapter on psychological freedom. After the prior excerpts on freedom to learn and create, today is about the freedom to share. Even after we have created something, many of [...] Read more
A Modest Proposal: 10 Ways to Incentivize New Yorker to Give Up their Plastic Bags
Bethany Crystal – Apr 1, 2019
I don’t know about you, but when I heard the announcement that New York is one year away from banning all plastic bags from being distributed in our city, I panicked. Then I counted my stockpile. I have exactly 25 [...] Read more
Portable TV and Music
Fred Wilson – Mar 31, 2019
We just packed up an Airbnb that we have been living in for three months in Los Angeles and are heading back east. This is a photo of my carry on luggage as I was packing it this morning. That [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Vitalik Buterin – The Unchained Podcast Interview
Fred Wilson – Mar 30, 2019
As I mentioned last week, at the start of this interview Laura Shin plays a bit of my “rant” about Ethereum losing it’s lead. Vitalik, as is his nature, calmly reacts to it and rebuts it. The entire interview is [...] Read more
How to [Unexpectedly] Frame Your Day
Bethany Crystal – Mar 29, 2019
Sometimes all it takes is a fun prop to dramatically change the way you interact with the world around you. Yesterday on my way to work, I found an old picture frame. It was leaning against a trash can just [...] Read more