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Uncertainty Wednesday: Beliefs (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2018
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced the idea of beliefs. Today we will make this idea more precise. We started with an extreme belief, the one that a coin is so biased that we will only observe “heads” (H). More realistically [...] Read more
Token Summit III In NYC
Fred Wilson – May 1, 2018
On May 17th, AVC regulars William Mougayar and Nick Tomaino will be hosting the 3rd Token Summit in New York at Pier 36 (aka Basketball City). There are still a few tickets left but I think it will sell out soon. The agenda [...] Read more
Email, Twitter, Blog
Fred Wilson – Apr 30, 2018
I exchanged emails today with someone who wanted to connect with me on LinkedIn. I told him that “I don’t do LinkedIn.” I have a profile there and I use it regularly as a resume database to check out people. [...] Read more
just_work = true
Nick Grossman – Apr 30, 2018
One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski , and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he’d finally say, “Oh, so you just want me to set just_work = true”. That [...] Read more
World After Capital: Getting Past Capital (Overview, Population)
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2018
NOTE: As every Monday, I am continuing to post excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today, starts Part Two of the book, which is title “Getting Past Capital” with an overview and a section on population growth dynamics. Digital [...] Read more
Keep The Degree Of Difficulty Down
Fred Wilson – Apr 29, 2018
In many sports, like diving, gymnastics, skating, etc, the way to win is to perfectly execute a high degree of difficulty move. In startups, I advise founders to avoid that way of thinking and try to execute a simple dive [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Digital Art On The Blockchain
Fred Wilson – Apr 28, 2018
About 3:15 into this video Chris Burniske asks an interesting question about how the CryptoKitties team thought about designing the kitties and the next ~four minutes are a revealing discussion about how blockchains may change the way digital art is [...] Read more
Trump, Irrationality and Game Theory
Albert Wenger – Apr 27, 2018
I have been openly critical of Trump as a president going back to before the election. While I want radical change I do not believe the price for this ought to be going backwards on foundational issues such as the [...] Read more
The Scratch Effect
Fred Wilson – Apr 26, 2018
Last night the Gotham Gal and I attended the annual benefit for the Scratch Foundation which provides financial support to the Scratch programming language and learning environment. Mitch Resnick , founder of Scratch and leader of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at [...] Read more