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Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash. Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away (ie [...] Read more
Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash . Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away [...] Read more
Pixel Buds vs AirPods
Fred Wilson – Feb 12, 2018
When I got my new Pixel 2XL recently, the Google Play Store offered me to add the Pixel Buds to my cart and get them for half price. Normally they are $159 (same price as AirPods). So I took up [...] Read more
World After Capital: Digital Technology (Zero Marginal Cost)
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2018
NOTE: Last week’s blog post was the current introduction to my book World After Capital. Today’s post covers the first half of the chapter on Digital Technology, which discusses how zero marginal cost is unlike anything found in the analog [...] Read more
Addition by Subtraction
Andy Weissman – Feb 11, 2018
“Dangerfield eliminated everything from his act but the setups and punchlines” Alex Halberstadt’s essay on Rodney Dangerfield is a masterclass on how to improve by reduction. Dangerfield worked for decades as a comedian until he figured out the thing, his [...] Read more
Streaming The Olympics
Fred Wilson – Feb 11, 2018
Yesterday morning something amusing happened. My friend and I were headed out to go skiing and we both got texts from our children asking for the logins to our cable accounts. I thought to myself that there must be tens [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Blockchains: A Shift (Back)Toward Decentralization
Fred Wilson – Feb 10, 2018
Last week I posted a video that the folks at Upfront Ventures did on the current investor mindset in crypto. There are few more videos in this Upfront series and today I am posting one about the shift towards decentralization [...] Read more
John Perry Barlow
Fred Wilson – Feb 8, 2018
John Perry Barlow understood what the Internet was, what it could be, and what it must be before most of us did. He passed away yesterday and the Internet filled with remembrances. Here are some of the best that I [...] Read more
How To Think About Selloffs
Fred Wilson – Feb 7, 2018
The crypto markets had a good day yesterday but have been down a lot since peaking in early January. Bitcoin peaked at almost $20,000USD in mid December and has gone down by roughly 60% since then. Ethereum peaked at almost [...] Read more