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Fred Wilson – Mar 3, 2019
A friend of mine sent me this the other day. Two AVC posts were at or near the top of Hacker News. But I did not go and read the comments as I have found the comments at Hacker News [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Chris, Joel, Jesse, and Denis on Crypto
Fred Wilson – Mar 2, 2019
On of our first crypto investments maybe five years ago was Mediachain, founded by Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature ), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn ). They sold that company to Spotify and eventually landed at A16Z crypto. One of the USV analysts [...] Read more
Improv for business and giving up control
Bethany Crystal – Mar 2, 2019
The exercise was simple enough: In a group of four, tell a story one word at a time with the title, “Colin gets a promotion.” Our group went a little like this: “Once” “Upon” “A” “Time” Off to a good [...] Read more
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos
Fred Wilson – Mar 1, 2019
This ran as a full page ad in the New York Times today. I signed it along with the top labor leaders in NYC, the top political leaders in NYC, top business execs, and the leaders of NYC’s higher education [...] Read more
EU Going Bonkers on Copyright
Albert Wenger – Mar 1, 2019
I know that with everything going on here in the US it is hard to find the time to even think about other parts of the world, but the EU is currently losing its mind when it comes to copyright. [...] Read more
Token Summit IV
Fred Wilson – Feb 28, 2019
Chris Burniske reminded me yesterday of something I said a while ago: "The lesson I’ve learned in my career is to invest into the post crash cycle. When you do that, and do it intelligently, you are rewarded greatly" – [...] Read more
Once is an accident, twice is inexcusable
Bethany Crystal – Feb 28, 2019
At an office yesterday, I accidentally walked into the corner of a low seated area and was punished with a 2-inch gash on my leg. Initially I continued with my meeting as planned. But after wincing in pain for the [...] Read more
Carbon-Offset Shipping On Etsy
Fred Wilson – Feb 27, 2019
I don’t write a lot about Etsy here at AVC. It is a public company and I am the Chairman so I have to be careful. But today Etsy is announcing something that makes me so proud. I have to [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Imperfect Correlation and the Narrative Fallacy
Albert Wenger – Feb 27, 2019
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I wrote about how regression to the mean at least partially explains the “curse” of building extravagant headquarters (which often signals an impending downturn in the performance of a company). Whenever we come up with a detailed [...] Read more