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World After Capital: Getting Past Capital (Attention)
Albert Wenger – May 21, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital is about attention. It argues why attention is scarce in the sense of scarcity introduced earlier in the book. This section sets up the demands on attention and then talks about scarcity of [...] Read more
Control
Andy Weissman – May 20, 2018
What is the future that will unfold? Some like it hot , others like it cold But we all want to hold the remote control -Beastie Boys Sometimes a service provides a value to its customers that may not be [...] Read more
The Finance To Value Framework
Fred Wilson – May 20, 2018
There are two major failure modes in startups. The first common failure mode is the thing you make doesn't get adopted. That's called not finding product market fit in startup lingo. The second common failure mode is "getting too far [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: How Play Made the Modern World
Fred Wilson – May 19, 2018
I got to spend a fair bit of time with my friend Steven Johnson this past week, in preparation for our crypto talk on Thursday night and before and after that talk. Steven has this wonderful quality of being able [...] Read more
What’s Going On?
Fred Wilson – May 17, 2018
A lot, to be honest. It’s Crypto Week in NYC this week. The last two weeks have been a blur, with so many things happening that I can’t keep up or write about all of them. But, here are a [...] Read more
The Mosaic Series at Yieldmo
Lauren Young – May 16, 2018
The terms “diversity” and “inclusion” have become increasingly paramount to CEOs, executives, managers and employees when focusing on the direction of their company. Included in the wave of frontrunners, a team at Yieldmo has founded “The Mosaic Series.” Read more
The Maturation Of A Market
Fred Wilson – May 16, 2018
Yesterday’s announcement that our portfolio company Coinbase is launching a suite of institutional products for the crypto market made me step back and think about the evolution of their institutional business. Coinbase started out as a place for individuals to [...] Read more
Off Grid Crypto Transactions
Fred Wilson – May 15, 2018
One of the benefits of decentralization is that you can build “censorship-resistant” applications. The best example of that is Bitcoin, a store and transfer of value system that governments can’t interfere with. Censorship resistant money, as it were. But if [...] Read more
Having A Foot In Both Camps
Fred Wilson – May 14, 2018
At our annual CEO Summit, which took place last week, we kick things off going around the room with each attendee (there are over seventy at this point) mentioning something they are struggling with right now. When it got to [...] Read more