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Who anoints you with decision-making power?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 13, 2019
Yesterday was the monthly meeting of a “boss book club” that I’m a part of. (For reference, this is not a book club comprised of “bosses.” It’s more like an analysis on the workplace term “boss,” in which some ladies [...] Read more
Feedback
Fred Wilson – Feb 12, 2019
Thanks for all of the feedback on yesterday’s post . There have been about 250 comments to date and a similar number of email replies. Not surprisingly the feedback from the email replies was overwhelmingly supportive of removing the comments. [...] Read more
Rethinking AVC
Fred Wilson – Feb 11, 2019
I read a lot of email newsletters and I love the simplicity of them. Receive, read, forward, maybe reply, delete. If I was starting AVC all over again, I'd head over to TinyLetter, which my daughter uses, and start writing. [...] Read more
The “business book” version of Harry Potter
Bethany Crystal – Feb 11, 2019
I own at least 50 different business books. I’ve even read “most of” most of them. And this, in itself, is the trouble with most business books. You can read the first 60% (sometimes, even the first 40%) and get [...] Read more
World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Feb 11, 2019
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you [...] Read more
The Free And Open Internet
Fred Wilson – Feb 10, 2019
I realize that publications need to have a business model to stay afloat. And the past month has seen a number of online publications (and offline publications) layoff a large number of employees. So it isn’t even clear that all [...] Read more
Boardroom Confidence: Nature, Nurture, or Does it Matter?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 10, 2019
Earlier today, I read this opinion piece in The New York Times about how girls, more so than boys, tend to work harder in school but fail to pull as much rank as their male counterparts later in life at [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: My Talk At Yext Onward 2018
Fred Wilson – Feb 9, 2019
Last fall, the folks at Yext offered to let me have some stage time at their Onward Conference to talk about the K12 CS Education work that I’ve been doing for the last ten years. I didn’t realize that the [...] Read more
A Healthy Discussion about Wealth (and Billionaires)
Albert Wenger – Feb 8, 2019
The question of “How Much is Enough?” isn’t just the title of an excellent book by Edward and Robert Skidelsky, but has come to be at the forefront of political debate. We are finally discussing such topics as a wealth [...] Read more