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Life In A Constant Stream Of Emails And Meetings
Fred Wilson – Mar 25, 2019
My colleague Nick wrote a post today about his productivity system . Nick’s system is way more elaborate than mine, but everyone has to find their own way of getting things done. What I found most interesting about Nick’s post [...] Read more
Setting up a system
Nick Grossman – Mar 25, 2019
Like most people, I have struggled over the years to comes up with a organizational/productivity system that works for me. Disclaimer: I do not yet have it down perfectly, and am not claiming guru status. But I do have a [...] Read more
World After Capital: Freedom to Create
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital continues the chapter on psychological freedom. The next step in the Knowledge Loop after learning is creating. Here too we need to work on our freedom. Picasso once said: “we all [...] Read more
By the Numbers: A Snapshot of Women in VC
Bethany Crystal – Mar 25, 2019
The community of Women in VC has been growing steadily over the past several years. Here’s a snapshot of who’s a part of our directory. You can read more here: https://www.women-vc.com/ Today, I’m excited to share the launch of a [...] Read more
The Finance Function: Looking Back And Looking Forward
Fred Wilson – Mar 24, 2019
High growth companies need to have a strong finance function. You can’t drive a car (or a plane) without some instrumentation. Most importantly, you need to know when you are going to run out of gas (or electricity). The mission [...] Read more
Video Of The Week In Two Parts
Fred Wilson – Mar 23, 2019
This past week Laura Shin did an interview with Vitalik Buterin , the founder of the Ethereum project. I am going to run a video of that conversation next week. Laura started her interview with Vitalik by playing for him [...] Read more
Progress through Positive Memes!
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2019
Last Friday I wrote about the power and danger of the meme of suppressed truth. In the post, I suggested that one form of countering negative memes is through positive ones. Since creating memes is definitely not my strength, please [...] Read more
Reply Spam
Fred Wilson – Mar 21, 2019
The AVC comments has been experiencing a wave of comment spam that has largely been replies to legit comments. I appreciate the community for flagging it and our moderators for nuking it. Keeping the comments free from spam is important [...] Read more
Wearing your hero’s name on your nametag
Bethany Crystal – Mar 21, 2019
A snapshot from our storytelling exercise yesterday at USV: “Tell us about a woman you admire and why you wrote her name on your nametag.” At our Women’s Leadership event that we hosted yesterday at USV, we kicked off the [...] Read more