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Noise-cancelling headphones
Bethany Crystal – Nov 13, 2018
I’ll never forget the first time I put on headphones for my CD player. I was in high school and I’m pretty sure the CD was Moulin Rouge, the movie musical with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In all likelihood [...] Read more
Mementos
Fred Wilson – Nov 12, 2018
I keep little things that remind me of events over my career in venture capital. And I have been doing that for most of those thirty plus years. I keep them on a bookshelf I have in my office at [...] Read more
World After Capital: UBI and the Labor Market
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2018
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section looks at the effects a Universal Basic Income (UBI) might have on the labor market. One of the many attractive features of a UBI is that [...] Read more
Everybody’s doing it: A short treatise on social “tugs”
Bethany Crystal – Nov 12, 2018
And just like that, many of my close female friends are pregnant. It happened all at once. Except of course, that it didn’t. Some were likely trying for months. Some got lucky on the first try. Some weren’t really “trying” [...] Read more
What Happens When A Founder Is Fully Vested?
Fred Wilson – Nov 11, 2018
Let’s say you are the founder and CEO of a startup and you have now been at it for four years. The company is doing great, you’ve raised several rounds of financing, you have a product in the market that [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Turning Buildings Into Power Plants
Fred Wilson – Nov 10, 2018
The Gotham Gal and I are investors in Blueprint Power , a company that helps landlords turn their buildings into mini power plants. Robyn Beavers, the CEO of Blueprint, was on the Gotham Gal’s podcast this past week. They talked [...] Read more
Making time for what you want
Bethany Crystal – Nov 10, 2018
I’ve been wanting to write more for years. Literally, years. Throughout my life, I’ve had multiple ebbs and flows of my persistence in regular writing. There have been years where I wrote nearly daily, a period where I wrote a [...] Read more
Protecting your tribe
Bethany Crystal – Nov 9, 2018
This evening, in a shop in Hayes Valley, I witnessed a woman enter the store and quietly carry out an entire rack of children’s clothing without paying. The shop-keeper, hearing a slight rustle, turned from me and raced after her, [...] Read more
The Anchor Tenant
Fred Wilson – Nov 8, 2018
Malls need anchor tenants. These are the stores that bring the folks to the mall so that they can discover all of the other amazing places to shop that sit between the big tenants. Cities need the same. Particularly cities [...] Read more