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An Alternative to Mandatory APIs: Let Me “Hack Myself”
Albert Wenger – Apr 20, 2018
I recently wrote a post about requiring APIs for social and other applications that have more then 1 million users. Now that is an approach to the problem of market power that adds new regulations. There is an alternative that [...] Read more
I Can’t Do Math In Prose
Fred Wilson – Apr 19, 2018
I wrote those words to a friend of mine yesterday. We are working on a project together. He wrote me an email listing a whole bunch of investments to be made and where we are on them. I read it [...] Read more
Shapeways Expands Services for Creators
Albert Wenger – Apr 18, 2018
Shapeways has printed over 10 million different products. This has allowed Shapeways to hone its printing and logistical capabilities. Along the way, the team has also developed great insights into the needs of creators. We are excited that Shapeways is expanding its service offering accordingly. Read more
Earn.com
Fred Wilson – Apr 18, 2018
The news broke earlier this week that our portfolio company Coinbase has acquired Earn.com . A lot of the press attention was centered around the fact that Earn’s CEO Balaji Srinivasan is becoming Coinbase’s CTO and the backstory about how Earn [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Learning)
Albert Wenger – Apr 18, 2018
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be the concluding post in my mini-series on the problem with p-values. We have already seen that it is much easier than expected to reject a null hypothesis if you have incentives to do so. We [...] Read more
The Employee Equity Project
Fred Wilson – Apr 17, 2018
In the fall of 2010, I wrote a series of nine blog posts about Employee Equity as part of MBA Mondays. You can read all of them at the links below: Employee Equity: How Much? November 22, 2010 Employee Equity: Vesting [...] Read more
The Employee Equity Project
Fred Wilson – Apr 17, 2018
In the fall of 2010, I wrote a series of nine blog posts about Employee Equity as part of MBA Mondays . You can read all of them at the links below: Employee Equity: How Much? November 22, 2010 Employee Equity: [...] Read more
Are We Decentralized Yet?
Fred Wilson – Apr 16, 2018
My friend Chris Burniske told me about this site last week and then tweeted about it last night: So the answer to the question posed by the name of the website is “not really.” But that doesn’t mean we won’t [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Scarcity)
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2018
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital. Today’s section provides a technological definition of scarcity (instead of an economic one) and provides a brief history of how scarcity has shifted over time from [...] Read more