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Audio Of The Week: Sarah Beatty and Montgomery Builds
Fred Wilson – Aug 31, 2019
The Gotham Gal loves this conversation with Sarah Beatty about her Montgomery Builds project and suggested that I give it a listen. So I am doing the same with all of you. Read more
AVC Stats
Fred Wilson – Aug 29, 2019
As I’ve been working on a new design and approach to this blog/newsletter , I have been diving into the analytics to understand what all of you are doing with it. Here are some charts and tables: 1/ The web [...] Read more
Entering the United States to Study
Albert Wenger – Aug 28, 2019
Thirty one years ago, in 1987, I landed at Boston Logan Airport with an F1 student visa to attend Harvard. I was full of excitement and not the least bit concerned about getting into the country. I had been here [...] Read more
The Erasure Protocol
Fred Wilson – Aug 28, 2019
Some crypto projects are developed from scratch. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and our portfolio company Algorand are examples of this. The developers have a vision and they go out and build it. Other crypto projects evolve from something else. Kin and Props [...] Read more
Sometimes it’s OK to yell
Bethany Crystal – Aug 28, 2019
I’m normally not the kind of person who yells a lot. I don’t tend to get mad in fights, so much as I get exasperated. I never have those quippy, one-liners ready to go when some jerk makes a passing [...] Read more
Returning The Fund
Fred Wilson – Aug 27, 2019
I have always felt that every investment in a venture fund should be able to return the fund. That doesn’t mean that they all will. In fact, for many funds I have worked on, only one or two investments work [...] Read more
Time For A New Look
Fred Wilson – Aug 26, 2019
Five and a half years ago, I moved AVC from Typepad to WordPress and rolled out the design that we now have. It has worked incredibly well. It is low maintenance, easy on the eyes, and minimalist, all things I [...] Read more
Is Ethereum the AOL of Crypto?
Albert Wenger – Aug 26, 2019
Of course Ethereum is not a walled garden the way AOL was. Anyone can write and deploy a smart contract, whereas adding functionality to AOL required a contract and a custom implementation. What I means instead is that much of [...] Read more
Hypothetical Value To Real Value
Fred Wilson – Aug 25, 2019
I remember when my son came home one day in high school and told me he wanted to “day trade” along with some friends who were doing it. We opened a TD Ameritrade account and staked him with a small [...] Read more