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Meditation And Distraction
Fred Wilson – Jan 8, 2018
I’ve been meditating for ten to fifteen minutes every day for the past two months. I have not missed a day since I started. I find it to be a wonderful practice which I enjoy and look forward to very [...] Read more
Taking Money “Off The Table”
Fred Wilson – Jan 7, 2018
One of the hardest things in managing a venture capital portfolio is managing your big winners. A big winner can dwarf the rest of the entire portfolio and you end up sitting on enormous paper profits that you can’t get [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Vitalik Buterin
Fred Wilson – Jan 6, 2018
In honor of Ethereum trading (briefly) at north of $1000USD this week, I thought we'd hear this weekend from Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin. This is an interview that he sat for in October at the ETH Waterloo event (where, among [...] Read more
I’m Having A Meltdown
Fred Wilson – Jan 4, 2018
So the chips we use in our personal computers and cloud computers have some newly discovered security holes. One is called Meltdown. The other is called Spectre. My first reaction upon hearing the news yesterday was “so what do we [...] Read more
Meltdown and Spectre are Good … for Innovation
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2018
So I am still away on family vacation and following a self-imposed online diet, but even then it has been impossible to ignore the monster sized vulnerabilities disclosed today known as Meltdown and Spectre. And just to make sure nobody [...] Read more
Some Thoughts On Checking References
Fred Wilson – Jan 3, 2018
We do a lot of referencing in our business. We certainly ask around about a team before investing in them. But we do even more referencing post investment when we help the founders and management of our portfolio companies build [...] Read more
Email Bankruptcy
Fred Wilson – Jan 2, 2018
I saw this tweet in my timeline yesterday and thought “what a great way to start the new year.” 1st day of the year has to be inbox 0 I’ve declared email bankruptcy. If I owe you an email, please [...] Read more
What Is Going To Happen In 2018
Fred Wilson – Jan 1, 2018
This is a post that I am struggling to write. I really have no idea what is going to happen in 2018. Will the crypto markets continue in their bull cycle? I have no clue. I was showing my daughter’s [...] Read more
What Happened In 2017
Fred Wilson – Dec 31, 2017
As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we [...] Read more