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Fred Wilson – Apr 30, 2018
I exchanged emails today with someone who wanted to connect with me on LinkedIn. I told him that “I don’t do LinkedIn.” I have a profile there and I use it regularly as a resume database to check out people. [...] Read more
just_work = true
Nick Grossman – Apr 30, 2018
One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski , and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he’d finally say, “Oh, so you just want me to set just_work = true”. That [...] Read more
World After Capital: Getting Past Capital (Overview, Population)
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2018
NOTE: As every Monday, I am continuing to post excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today, starts Part Two of the book, which is title “Getting Past Capital” with an overview and a section on population growth dynamics. Digital [...] Read more
Keep The Degree Of Difficulty Down
Fred Wilson – Apr 29, 2018
In many sports, like diving, gymnastics, skating, etc, the way to win is to perfectly execute a high degree of difficulty move. In startups, I advise founders to avoid that way of thinking and try to execute a simple dive [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Digital Art On The Blockchain
Fred Wilson – Apr 28, 2018
About 3:15 into this video Chris Burniske asks an interesting question about how the CryptoKitties team thought about designing the kitties and the next ~four minutes are a revealing discussion about how blockchains may change the way digital art is [...] Read more
Trump, Irrationality and Game Theory
Albert Wenger – Apr 27, 2018
I have been openly critical of Trump as a president going back to before the election. While I want radical change I do not believe the price for this ought to be going backwards on foundational issues such as the [...] Read more
The Scratch Effect
Fred Wilson – Apr 26, 2018
Last night the Gotham Gal and I attended the annual benefit for the Scratch Foundation which provides financial support to the Scratch programming language and learning environment. Mitch Resnick , founder of Scratch and leader of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at [...] Read more
Hi Everyone
Naomi Shah – Apr 25, 2018
I am a new analyst on the investment team at Union Square Ventures. Read more
FINOS
Fred Wilson – Apr 25, 2018
In December I wrote about the Symphony Software Foundation as it was launching the NYC Open Source Fintech Meetup . Yesterday the foundation announced a new name: FINOS. FINOS is about supporting open source software efforts across the financial services [...] Read more