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Beta testing (and breaking) new systems
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as the guinea pig for “IRL” (in [...] Read more
Knowing who to trust online & offline
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major problem at hand: I hadn’t written down the keycode needed to [...] Read more
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Fred Wilson – Dec 18, 2018
With the news of Google and Amazon’s huge expansions into NYC, many people are asking “how did NYC tech get to this place?” Well, I am going to post a 25 minute video history lesson at the end of this [...] Read more
Paying down debt (financial, technical, and otherwise)
Nick Grossman – Dec 17, 2018
Debt is a complicated subject. On the one hand, it is empowering — it lets you get a quick start on something, and lets you do things that would not be possible otherwise. There are times when it is useful, [...] Read more
Supersize Your DJ Set
Fred Wilson – Dec 17, 2018
Our portfolio company SoundCloud just launched a pretty cool thing. If you are a DJ and use one of the popular DJ software products, you can plug SoundCloud into it and make your mixes right from the cloud . Here’s [...] Read more
World After Capital: Copyright (Informational Freedom)
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2018
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Currently we are on the Informational Freedom section and the last week’s post was on being represented by a bot. Today looks at the rolling back copyright. Once [...] Read more
Getting creative with available resources
Bethany Crystal – Dec 17, 2018
Over the weekend, I had brunch at a tiny NYC restaurant on the Upper West Side that’s always crammed for tables and space. In the summer, this restaurant accommodates outdoor sidewalk seating. But of course, in 30-degree weather, this no [...] Read more
Negotiating: Drawing A Hard Line or Building A Negotiating Cushion? – AVC
Fred Wilson – Dec 16, 2018
How you handle corners
Bethany Crystal – Dec 14, 2018
Last night we ate dinner at a restaurant where the kitchen and dish-washing stations were separated from the main dining room by a staircase. When I left our meal to head to the bathroom downstairs, a hurried water jostled past [...] Read more