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Arweave Project Ideas
Dani Grant – Mar 5, 2019
Earlier today, the Arweave team announced that they’ve raised additional capital in order to fund developers who want to build on Arweave through two new programs - Arweave Grants and Arweave Boost. People are already building lots of amazing things [...] Read more
Being Wrong
Fred Wilson – Mar 5, 2019
Howard has a great (and short!) post on how blogging publicly gives you a timeline on how you were thinking at a given time. He’s right, it is awesome to be able to go back and see what you were [...] Read more
Getting Credit
Fred Wilson – Mar 4, 2019
Last night CBS 60 Minutes aired a piece about the gender gap in tech and left out a number of important efforts to close the gap. My friend Rob Underwood tweeted this out about that piece: I admire work of [...] Read more
Changing your life
Nick Grossman – Mar 4, 2019
Just about 10 years ago, I had a migraine that lasted two weeks. I have never been in such pain; even an ER visit and a morphine drip didn’t touch it. Then, 6 months later, I had a stomach pain [...] Read more
The life and death of great plumeria trees
Bethany Crystal – Mar 4, 2019
For me, springtime doesn’t begin with the equinox on March 20. It starts much sooner, on the very first weekend in March, with a somewhat unlikely event: The Philadelphia Flower Show. Every year since 1829, florists and horticulturalists alike descend [...] Read more
World After Capital: Psychological Freedom (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2019
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post introduces the concept of psychological freedom, which is crucial for living in a world that is information super saturated. Imagine you live in [...] Read more
Karma
Fred Wilson – Mar 3, 2019
A friend of mine sent me this the other day. Two AVC posts were at or near the top of Hacker News. But I did not go and read the comments as I have found the comments at Hacker News [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Chris, Joel, Jesse, and Denis on Crypto
Fred Wilson – Mar 2, 2019
On of our first crypto investments maybe five years ago was Mediachain, founded by Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature ), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn ). They sold that company to Spotify and eventually landed at A16Z crypto. One of the USV analysts [...] Read more
Improv for business and giving up control
Bethany Crystal – Mar 2, 2019
The exercise was simple enough: In a group of four, tell a story one word at a time with the title, “Colin gets a promotion.” Our group went a little like this: “Once” “Upon” “A” “Time” Off to a good [...] Read more