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Wenger Design: Men’s Wear
Albert Wenger – Nov 20, 2017
I have mentioned here on Continuations before that we have been home schooling our children. The main reason for doing so is to give them plenty of time to pursue their interests. Interest that over time can deepen into passions [...] Read more
The Top Of The Funnel
Fred Wilson – Nov 19, 2017
Whether you have a e-commerce business, a SAAS business, a media business, a marketplace business, or some other business model, you are going to start thinking about customer acquisition at some point. And there are a lot of options out [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: AirCraft By Dronebase
Fred Wilson – Nov 18, 2017
I saw this video a drone enthusiast made on AirCraft and thought I’d share it with all of you this week: USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — November 17, 2017 Twitter’s Verified Mess Bethany Marz Crystal — November 16, 2017 [...] Read more
Drip
Fred Wilson – Nov 16, 2017
Yesterday, our portfolio company Kickstarter announced that they had relaunched Drip , a subscription platform they acquired almost two years ago. Perry Chen , Kickstarter’s founder and Chairman, wrote this blog post explaining what they are trying to do with [...] Read more
Update On Stock Options/RSUs Issue
Fred Wilson – Nov 15, 2017
I just saw this on my twitter: The @NVCA has been working hard to make sure #innovation & #entrepreneurship are drivers of US growth!#TaxReform pic.twitter.com/q1Ez7EfbC7 — Phil Sanderson (@SanFranciscoVC) November 15, 2017 This means that the Senate has now made [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean under Fat Tails (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2017
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be quite short as I am super swamped. Last week I showed some code and an initial graph for sample means of size 100 from a Cauchy distribution. Here is a plot (narrowed down to the [...] Read more
FemaleFounder.Org
Fred Wilson – Nov 14, 2017
My partner Rebecca posted this to her Twitter yesterday: Excited to band together with a group of women that I’ve learned so much from to help women starting the next generation of breakout businesses. Female founders we’re so ready for [...] Read more
Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!
Fred Wilson – Nov 13, 2017
The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting. Currently, stock options are taxed upon exercise and RSUs are taxed upon release of the underlying shares. This is a HUGE deal to [...] Read more
Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!
Fred Wilson – Nov 13, 2017
The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting . Currently, stock options are taxed upon exercise and RSUs are taxed upon release of the underlying shares. This is a HUGE deal [...] Read more