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The AVC Daily Email
Fred Wilson – Jan 14, 2020
Most of you read AVC via email. Today, all of you will see a refresh of the look and feel of the daily email to match the refresh we did to the website last week. I want to thank Phil [...] Read more
Form, Storm, Norm, Perform
Nick Grossman – Jan 13, 2020
I was out with some friends over the summer, one of whom is a college soccer coach, and we were talking about what it is that makes great teams great. I love talking to to coaches and people who have [...] Read more
Marketing
Fred Wilson – Jan 13, 2020
I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. My friend Alex’s post on the topic this weekend has made me revisit my thoughts on the subject of marketing. Alex [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Make 100
Fred Wilson – Jan 10, 2020
Kickstarter kicks off the new year with a campaign called Make 100. The idea is to stimulate a lot of smaller projects where the creator makes 100 of something. It’s a hodgepodge of creativity in the best sense of the [...] Read more
The Discuss on Twitter WordPress Plugin
Nick Grossman – Jan 10, 2020
Discuss on Twitter is a WordPress plugin that uses Twitter as the commenting system for your blog. I’ve been developing it over the past few weeks along with Fred Wilson and Kirk Love as part of the launch of AVC [...] Read more
Calling All Billionaires: Fund Fusion Now
Albert Wenger – Jan 10, 2020
For any billionaire out there: fund nuclear fusion now! Consider this: the people who fund successful nuclear fusion are guaranteed a spot in the history books. And that spot will be immediately followed by spots for anybody else who spent [...] Read more
AVC 3.0
Fred Wilson – Jan 9, 2020
Welcome to the new AVC. This is the third “iteration” of this blog. The first iteration (AVC 1.0) was the Typepad era during which I redesigned AVC a number of times using Typepad’s tools. That lasted from September 2003 to [...] Read more
Iterating from Scratch
Nick Grossman – Jan 8, 2020
A few years ago I wrote about one of my favorite product sayings: “Half, Not Half-Assed “, which comes from my favorite book on product development & teamwork, Getting Real (from the team behind Basecamp ). I actually first got [...] Read more
What Is Going On With AVC? (continued)
Fred Wilson – Jan 8, 2020
I have received a bunch of questions from AVC regulars about this temporary design and what is going on with AVC. As I wrote in the first post in this series :), a couple of files in my WordPress configuration [...] Read more