Writing

I have New York State’s exposure alerting app on my phone and check it every day. It gives me great statistics about what is going on in my location. You can download it here for iOS and Android . It [...]  Read more

I saw this tweet in my feed yesterday and read the New Yorker piece when I woke up this morning: @fdestin @MacConwell @HarryStebbings any VC 'fairy godfathers of success' viewpoints? "Building a solid business, but the V.C.s wanted fantasy….the hope [...]  Read more

There are many ways to invest successfully. Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the [...]  Read more

I was on a zoom board meeting in early July and one of the board members started whipping out cards instead of interrupting. I captured the moment because I thought it was awesome. Since then, I have wanted my own [...]  Read more

The latest charade of bringing Jack and Zuck in front of Congress to yell at them reminds me that our elected officials and regulators don’t have a plan for how to properly regulate social media. Jack and Zuck probably do [...]  Read more

When I go back and read my Jan 1st post on what would happen in the 2020s , I am reminded how hard it is to predict the future. The Covid Pandemic changed everything in 2020 and likely for years [...]  Read more

A reader emailed me yesterday and I replied: Hi Fred, do you have any suggestion for good primers/book explaining cryptocurrencies a bit better to the inexperienced and uninitiated? i would start at the start https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The Bitcoin Whitepaper , originally published [...]  Read more

The first crypto asset most people purchase is Bitcoin. It has the highest market capitalization. It has way more search interest. But Bitcoin is not all there is to the crypto sector. There is about $160bn of market value in [...]  Read more

AVC regular Charlie Crystle told me that his neighbors are doing a fun Kickstarter. So I went and watched the video (here for email readers ): The video is only 30 seconds and it sold me instantly. I backed it [...]  Read more