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Video Of The Week In Two Parts
Fred Wilson – Mar 23, 2019
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
Progress through Positive Memes!
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2019
Last Friday I wrote about the power and danger of the meme of suppressed truth. In the post, I suggested that one form of countering negative memes is through positive ones. Since creating memes is definitely not my strength, please [...] Read more
Reply Spam
Fred Wilson – Mar 21, 2019
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
Wearing your hero’s name on your nametag
Bethany Crystal – Mar 21, 2019
A snapshot from our storytelling exercise yesterday at USV: “Tell us about a woman you admire and why you wrote her name on your nametag.” At our Women’s Leadership event that we hosted yesterday at USV, we kicked off the [...] Read more
Respecting The Pro-Rata Right
Fred Wilson – Mar 20, 2019
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
Uncertainty Wednesday: When Small Numbers Matter (Aircraft Safety)
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2019
Last week’s Uncertainty Wednesday was titled “Fooled by Small Numbers” and discussed why drawing conclusions from small samples is dangerous. A reader asked how that relates to grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane after two crashes? Isn’t that also [...] Read more
Scam Likely
Fred Wilson – Mar 19, 2019
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
The IPO Price and the S1
Fred Wilson – Mar 18, 2019
In my What Is Going To Happen In 2019 post, I wrote: I expect we will see IPOs from big names like Uber/Lyft/Slack, although I also expect those deals will get priced well below the lofty expectations they have in [...] Read more
World After Capital: Freedom to Learn
Albert Wenger – Mar 18, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital continues the discussion of Psychological Freedom by examining how we can make ourselves free to learn. Young kids ask upwards of three hundred questions a day. [122] Humans are naturally curious, [...] Read more