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A Changing Of The Guard?

The world has all-but stopped making new tech unicorns. pic.twitter.com/rppXVg5hWX — Jim Edwards (@Jim_Edwards) May 29, 2018 21 new ones on this list here https://t.co/eZRoyNfACZ WSJ may not know where to look these days — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 29, [...]  Read more

Commencement

I looked up the definition of the word commencement and it includes starting something and also the conferring of diplomas. Those seem like two different things. The start of something and the completion of something. But maybe they are the [...]  Read more

GDPR Is Upon Us

As we all know from the flood of emails coming into our inboxes explaining that privacy policies have changed and more, the dawn of the GDPR era is upon us. Technically companies have until tomorrow, May 25th, to get into [...]  Read more

Measuring and Boosting Engineering Velocity

I have been recommending our portfolio company Code Climate ‘s relatively new Velocity product  in most of my recent Board meetings. I hear from management teams again and again that they want to understand their engineering utilization and velocity and [...]  Read more

Shoulder Surgery

No Uncertainty Wednesday today. I had shoulder surgery yesterday to repair a rotator cuff injury. That means I won’t be able to type for quite a few days. I am creating this post using Voice on my Android phone. Impressively [...]  Read more

Paying Your Dues

I was watching last night’s game between the Celtics and the Cavs and I was thinking about the fantastic young players the Celtics have on that team, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Terry Rozier. As good as those [...]  Read more

CryptoTwitter

Last week, I was asked this question on Twitter: Crypto Twitter — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 14, 2018 But if you want to read CryptoTwitter, what is the best way to do that? I have curated a bunch of people [...]  Read more