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Labor Day: UBI versus Job Guarantee
Albert Wenger – Sep 2, 2019
The majority of the 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side support a Federal Job Guarantee with Andrew Yang being the lone voice in favor of a Universal Basic Income. Both of these policies are aiming to address the changes [...] Read more
Labor Shortages
Fred Wilson – Sep 2, 2019
I read last week that there are a growing number of regions around the country where there are labor shortages. Businesses literally cannot find the workers they need to operate their businesses. Today is Labor Day, a day to celebrate [...] Read more
Scaling In Lower Cost Locations
Fred Wilson – Sep 1, 2019
This is a topic I’ve written about a bunch over the years. I feel like it is becoming more urgent every day. Last week I heard some shocking numbers about salary levels for certain kinds of engineers in the bay [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Sarah Beatty and Montgomery Builds
Fred Wilson – Aug 31, 2019
The Gotham Gal loves this conversation with Sarah Beatty about her Montgomery Builds project and suggested that I give it a listen. So I am doing the same with all of you. Read more
AVC Stats
Fred Wilson – Aug 29, 2019
As I’ve been working on a new design and approach to this blog/newsletter , I have been diving into the analytics to understand what all of you are doing with it. Here are some charts and tables: 1/ The web [...] Read more
Entering the United States to Study
Albert Wenger – Aug 28, 2019
Thirty one years ago, in 1987, I landed at Boston Logan Airport with an F1 student visa to attend Harvard. I was full of excitement and not the least bit concerned about getting into the country. I had been here [...] Read more
The Erasure Protocol
Fred Wilson – Aug 28, 2019
Some crypto projects are developed from scratch. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and our portfolio company Algorand are examples of this. The developers have a vision and they go out and build it. Other crypto projects evolve from something else. Kin and Props [...] Read more
Sometimes it’s OK to yell
Bethany Crystal – Aug 28, 2019
I’m normally not the kind of person who yells a lot. I don’t tend to get mad in fights, so much as I get exasperated. I never have those quippy, one-liners ready to go when some jerk makes a passing [...] Read more
Returning The Fund
Fred Wilson – Aug 27, 2019
I have always felt that every investment in a venture fund should be able to return the fund. That doesn’t mean that they all will. In fact, for many funds I have worked on, only one or two investments work [...] Read more