By Nick Grossman—Oct 20, 2020

At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process. It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone. Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like a hose over the crowd. It’s also like being on the line in a commercial […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Oct 20, 2020

If your job requires you to design, build, and ship software applications and you want a better way to get feedback on the application, the design, etc, then I have a suggestion for you. Try Jam. Or Jam.dev to be specific. Jam allows you to turn your web application into something akin to Google […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 19, 2020

I read Alex Konrad’s profile of Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang of Paradigm yesterday and was reminded of my own career. In 1996, after almost a decade at Euclid Partners, I left to start Flatiron Partners with Jerry Colonna . I was 35. Jerry was 33. We had a lot to learn but we did […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Oct 18, 2020

One of the core ideas in my book The World After Capital is that we have sufficient physical capital in the world to meet everyone’s needs. To help establish this I provide a fairly detailed analysis of what our needs are. Now today’s post is about clothing. Some people would say that clothing is a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 16, 2020

The Gotham Gal and I have lived a block away from Westbeth for almost fifteen years. Westbeth is a treasure. It was Bell Labs for most of the first half of the twentieth century and became an artist community in 1970 about twenty years after Bell Labs left for New Jersey. Earlier this week, I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Well, I missed something in the data that was subsequently reported on by PitchBook , one of the authors of the report: Venture funding for […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)