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Fred Wilson – Apr 2, 2018
Our portfolio company Cloudflare announced a consumer DNS service (a resolver) yesterday . It was not an April Fools stunt. If you want to use the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service, then head over to 1.1.1.1 and click the [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Regulation & Self-Regulation)
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2018
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital here. These sections on Regulation and Self-Regulation follow the one on Optimism to make clear my belief that technology will not automatically makes things better but [...] Read more
Easter Eggs
Fred Wilson – Apr 1, 2018
Happy Easter everyone. I would also like to wish folks a happy Passover. My topic today are Easter Eggs. Not the kind that kids find hidden in the back yard, but little features that developers hide in the software applications [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Computer Science Education For All
Fred Wilson – Mar 31, 2018
I heard the news last night that the $6mm that Governor Cuomo was seeking for K12 CS Education was not included in the final NY State budget. I had blogged about this issue at the start of this week . [...] Read more
We Need Mandatory Enduser APIs for Social and Search Systems
Albert Wenger – Mar 30, 2018
When #DeleteUber was a trending hashtag it was relatively easy for people to take action in those cities where Lyft, MyTaxi or some other service was available. Even if you didn’t delete the Uber app outright, you could move it [...] Read more
Tenacity
Fred Wilson – Mar 29, 2018
I saw this tweet in my feed this morning and responded: just keep going and don’t quit — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) March 29, 2018 If there was one word I would use to describe my secret to success it would [...] Read more
The Jiu-Jitsu Move
Fred Wilson – Mar 28, 2018
When a new technology or a new entrant or some new behavior comes into a market, the initial reaction is often to reject it. But, as my partner Brad likes to say, the better move is to take that nee [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2018
As promised for some time, today in Uncertainty Wednesday, I will talk about p-values and what makes them so problematic. We will once again look at a super simple example by going back to considering a coin flip. As before [...] Read more
Digital scarcity
Nick Grossman – Mar 27, 2018
As readers of this blog can tell, I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently focused on cryptonetworks and blockchains, and in particular, working through the complex legal and regulatory issues involved. Explaining what cryptocurrencies, cryptonetworks and blockchains are [...] Read more