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A big lesson from a little moment
Bethany Crystal – Nov 8, 2018
Our caterers forgot the ice. With 42 minutes to go until our USV Network welcome session began, I had limited time and resources but needed to make it work. The proprietors of our venue loaned me a RadioFlyer red wagon [...] Read more
The Dangers of Unstoppable Code
Nick Grossman – Nov 7, 2018
With real-time, interconnected, self-executing systems, sometimes when things wrong, they go really wrong. I wrote about this general idea previously here . Yesterday, while I was writing my post on Trusted Brands , I was doing a little searching through [...] Read more
TYWLS Digital Dance
Fred Wilson – Nov 7, 2018
I blogged about this in the spring of 2017 but I am back with more. TYWLS stands for The Young Women’s Leadership School, which is located in Astoria Queens in NYC. A few years ago the students decides to show [...] Read more
World After Capital: UBI is Affordable
Albert Wenger – Nov 7, 2018
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section provides some back of the envelope calculations to show we can afford UBI to provide economic freedom for all. So with all of this as background, [...] Read more
Trusted Brands
Nick Grossman – Nov 6, 2018
Today is election day. I’m on a plane today, so I voted early, a few days ago. I cast my vote and it felt good. I marked my paper ballot with a marker (for optical scanning) glued it shut into [...] Read more
If You Do Just One Thing Today, Vote
Fred Wilson – Nov 6, 2018
Today is Election Day. Polls are open in every state in the US. It is time to stop the incessant back and forth, and do the one thing that counts – voting. There is very little on my ballot here [...] Read more
In the name of civic duty
Bethany Crystal – Nov 6, 2018
Is it bad to cut in line to cast a vote? This was the ethical conundrum I felt as I waited in line at the polls. I’ve never seen it like this before. Every other time I’ve voted, I’ve walked [...] Read more
Pixel 3 XL
Fred Wilson – Nov 5, 2018
I spent a fair bit of time this weekend moving phones from the Pixel 2, which I have loved using, to the Pixel 3 XL . It is drop dead simple to port over all of my accounts, data, and [...] Read more
Cheering on marathon runners
Bethany Crystal – Nov 5, 2018
New York City on Marathon day may be the city at its absolute best. It has all of the right ingredients to both simultaneously welcome traveling visitors and to remind long-time locals why they love it here. For the 50,000 [...] Read more