Writing
Choose
GDPR
Fred Wilson – Sep 28, 2017
We have been spending a lot of time in Board meetings lately talking about GDPR. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and is an EU regulation that, as written, will impact most Internet companies regardless of where they are [...] Read more
GDPR
Fred Wilson – Sep 28, 2017
We have been spending a lot of time in Board meetings lately talking about GDPR . GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and is an EU regulation that, as written, will impact most Internet companies regardless of where they [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I introduced a definition of climate as the probability distribution over weather states. That post ended with a question about how historically observed statistics relate to this distribution. I am in Vienna Austria for a conference and [...] Read more
Longer Tweets
Fred Wilson – Sep 27, 2017
I’ve got mixed feelings about Twitter’s experiment with allowing longer tweets (280 characters vs 140). Like many users expressed on Twitter (of course) yesterday, I’m quite fond of the 140 character limit. I don’t like the constraint when I compose [...] Read more
Rich Media Art Display
Fred Wilson – Sep 26, 2017
I enjoy rich media art and I’ve always wanted to figure out how to display it in an easy way. We have some rich media art displays in the USV office. We have an Electric Objects and a Meural . [...] Read more
You Make Money With Wins, You Make Friends With Losses
Fred Wilson – Sep 25, 2017
Brad Feld has a great post about the emotional toll of the collapse of the internet bubble . Near the end, he writes: When I reflect on my relationship with Seth, Jason, and Ryan much of the intense loyalty between [...] Read more
Machine Learning Build vs Buy: The In-House Temptation
Albert Wenger – Sep 25, 2017
By now most CEOs of startups understand that they urgently need to figure out what role machine learning will play in their business. Large established companies too are actively engaged in this process. This is not an easy task in [...] Read more
Diversification (aka How To Survive A Crash)
Fred Wilson – Sep 24, 2017
I was emailing with my friend Harry this past week and we started talking about crypto and the inevitability of a massive crash. I am certain the big crash will happen. I don't know when it will happen and I [...] Read more
Diversification (aka How To Survive A Crash)
Fred Wilson – Sep 24, 2017
I was emailing with my friend Harry this past week and we started talking about crypto and the inevitability of a massive crash. I am certain the big crash will happen. I don’t know when it will happen and I [...] Read more