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Shoulder Surgery
Albert Wenger – May 23, 2018
No Uncertainty Wednesday today. I had shoulder surgery yesterday to repair a rotator cuff injury. That means I won’t be able to type for quite a few days. I am creating this post using Voice on my Android phone. Impressively [...] Read more
Paying Your Dues
Fred Wilson – May 22, 2018
I was watching last night’s game between the Celtics and the Cavs and I was thinking about the fantastic young players the Celtics have on that team, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Terry Rozier. As good as those [...] Read more
CryptoTwitter
Fred Wilson – May 21, 2018
Last week, I was asked this question on Twitter: Crypto Twitter — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 14, 2018 But if you want to read CryptoTwitter, what is the best way to do that? I have curated a bunch of people [...] Read more
World After Capital: Getting Past Capital (Attention)
Albert Wenger – May 21, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital is about attention. It argues why attention is scarce in the sense of scarcity introduced earlier in the book. This section sets up the demands on attention and then talks about scarcity of [...] Read more
Control
Andy Weissman – May 20, 2018
What is the future that will unfold? Some like it hot , others like it cold But we all want to hold the remote control -Beastie Boys Sometimes a service provides a value to its customers that may not be [...] Read more
The Finance To Value Framework
Fred Wilson – May 20, 2018
There are two major failure modes in startups. The first common failure mode is the thing you make doesn't get adopted. That's called not finding product market fit in startup lingo. The second common failure mode is "getting too far [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: How Play Made the Modern World
Fred Wilson – May 19, 2018
I got to spend a fair bit of time with my friend Steven Johnson this past week, in preparation for our crypto talk on Thursday night and before and after that talk. Steven has this wonderful quality of being able [...] Read more
What’s Going On?
Fred Wilson – May 17, 2018
A lot, to be honest. It’s Crypto Week in NYC this week. The last two weeks have been a blur, with so many things happening that I can’t keep up or write about all of them. But, here are a [...] Read more
The Maturation Of A Market
Fred Wilson – May 16, 2018
Yesterday’s announcement that our portfolio company Coinbase is launching a suite of institutional products for the crypto market made me step back and think about the evolution of their institutional business. Coinbase started out as a place for individuals to [...] Read more