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World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Finish)
Albert Wenger – Feb 18, 2019
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing informational freedom we should embrace a post privacy world. —- So we [...] Read more
The Convergence Of The Phone And Laptop
Fred Wilson – Feb 17, 2019
The Gotham Gal wanted to get a new laptop. Her late 2015 Macbook has started to fade on her. So yesterday we made a visit to the local Apple Store and checked out the options. We looked at the Macbooks, [...] Read more
Losing your voice at the most inconvenient times
Bethany Crystal – Feb 17, 2019
I’ve only lost my voice twice in my life. But it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient times. Since on the edge of losing my voice for the third time in my life, it’s making me think back [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Reimagining The Well Woman
Fred Wilson – Feb 16, 2019
One of the areas we have been investing a lot in at USV is women’s healthcare (Clue , Modern Fertility , Nurx ). Another interesting company in women’s healthcare, that USV is not an investor in (at least not yet), [...] Read more
The trouble with being sick
Bethany Crystal – Feb 16, 2019
The trouble with being sick is that you can’t get anything done. You can’t go outside. (It’s far too cold.) You can’t go out to eat. (Who knows how it’ll affect your stomach?) You can’t make friends at a bar. [...] Read more
The Amazon Backlash
Fred Wilson – Feb 14, 2019
NY State Senator Michael Gianaris is leading the efforts to stop Amazon from opening up a large presence in the borough of Queens in NYC. I get that this makes for good politics at some level. Standing up for the [...] Read more
Nobody likes you
Bethany Crystal – Feb 14, 2019
Nobody texted me back. I checked back to my initial texts: One sent at 11:40 a.m. The next sent at 12:59 p.m. The third at 1:41 p.m. The message in each was exactly the same: “Hey, I’d love to see [...] Read more
The Seed Slump
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2019
I have written a bit about this topic in recent years, at the end of 2017 , and again when the 2018 numbers started showing up . What has happened over the last five years in venture capital is the [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Additive versus Multiplicative Risk
Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2019
After an excursion for the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays into the topic of intelligence, I want to return to how to think about risk. In a post about a decade ago I wrote that it is possible for a startup [...] Read more