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Retail Space Available
Fred Wilson – Oct 8, 2018
A friend of mine told me last weekend that he thinks the two biggest issues in NYC right now are the rise of homelessness and the proliferation of vacant retail spaces. One is about not having a space to live [...] Read more
World After Capital: Economic Freedom (Intro, Universal Basic Income)
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2018
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. The last post was the beginning of Part Three of the book. Today’s post is the the introduction to the concept of economic freedom and how universal basic [...] Read more
Fully Diluted Market Value
Fred Wilson – Oct 7, 2018
When someone asks you how much of a company you own, the answer could be two very different numbers. You might own 10,000 shares and there might be 1mm shares issued and outstanding. That would suggest you own 1% of [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Rebecca Kaden on Twenty Minute VC
Fred Wilson – Oct 6, 2018
My partner Rebecca Kaden was on the Twenty Minute VC podcast last week. Once you get past the 3:20 mins of audio ad readouts (I advise to fast forward through them), she talks about areas in e-commerce that are possibly [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Gmail Predictive Typing
Fred Wilson – Oct 5, 2018
I was typing emails on my new Pixelbook yesterday and as I started a new word, Gmail would finish the word and often suggest an entire phrase to come after the word. All I had to do is hit tab [...] Read more
Interoperability and Competition (for Scooters, Bikes, etc)
Albert Wenger – Oct 5, 2018
I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and there appear to be at least half a dozen bicycle and scooter networks in the city. This makes for a terrible experience because you have to sort of guess which [...] Read more
Gotham Gal Turns Fifteen
Fred Wilson – Oct 4, 2018
2003 was a fertile year for both of us as I started blogging in late September and Joanne picked it up on her birthday a few weeks later. I’m not the only one in this family who blogs every day. [...] Read more
Consumer Learning
Fred Wilson – Oct 3, 2018
I listened to this IBM podcast with Matt Glotzbach, CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet , this morning. Matt explains that edtech, a long-standing term for the market for software and technology sold to the education market, is fundamentally different [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: To Know or Not to Know?
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2018
Our most recent read for the USV book club was the Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. The book chronicles the lives of siblings who as adolescents were foretold the dates of their deaths. One of the key questions we talked about [...] Read more