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NYC Is Savills’ Top Tech City
Fred Wilson – Feb 21, 2019
Savills World Research , a global property agent, has been ranking the world’s top tech cities based on a bunch of criteria for years. In this year’s rankings , NYC tops SF to become the number one tech city in [...] Read more
Unlocking “talent fluidity” in the tech ecosystem
Bethany Crystal – Feb 21, 2019
Former colleagues in high places There’s a nice feeling of “greatness by association” you get when you hear about a prior colleague doing something amazing in their new job. You get to tell people, with a smile: “I used to [...] Read more
How to Build a Cabinet: Leadership Lessons from the Hamilton Creative Team
Bethany Crystal – Feb 21, 2019
SoundCloud Premier Distribution
Fred Wilson – Feb 20, 2019
Our portfolio company SoundCloud launched an important new feature today. Distribution . There are plenty of services a musician can use to get their music onto the major streaming music services. There has been CDBaby, TuneCore, DistroKid, and many more. [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Regression to the Mean and the Extravagant Headquarters Effect
Albert Wenger – Feb 20, 2019
In sports some people believe that there is a Sports Illustrated cover jinx: teams or individual athletes featured on the cover for outstanding performance, subsequently have a bad season. One explanation for this phenomenon is regression to the mean. The [...] Read more
Transfer learning (and transferring your learnings)
Bethany Crystal – Feb 20, 2019
Today I learned about transfer learning as a machine learning principle. I liked the concept so much that I immediately applied a mental map about this in my own head to how it might relate to job transitions in the [...] Read more
The Weekly Email
Fred Wilson – Feb 19, 2019
One of my favorite moves that I have seen founders do in the early stages of their company (think pre-seed, seed, and possibly into the Srs A stages), is the weekly email. This can take a number of forms; a [...] Read more
Let’s talk about titles
Bethany Crystal – Feb 19, 2019
I’m really starting to believe that job titles don’t matter all that much. I know we’re conditioned to believe that’s not the case. We’re trained to aim for the highest sounding title in the book, the loftiest honors of course [...] Read more
A Small Change To The Comments
Fred Wilson – Feb 18, 2019
David Steinberg, founder and CEO of Zeta Global , the owner of Disqus, saw my blog post last week expressing a desire to make this blog easier to manage. He reached out, asking how Zeta/Disqus could help. I explained my [...] Read more