A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonAs we all know from the flood of emails coming into our inboxes explaining that privacy policies have changed and more, the dawn of the GDPR era is upon us. Technically companies have until tomorrow, May 25th, to get into compliance with GDPR. USV portfolio companies have been working on getting […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have been recommending our portfolio company Code Climate ‘s relatively new Velocity product in most of my recent Board meetings. I hear from management teams again and again that they want to understand their engineering utilization and velocity and benchmark it. Everyone feels like they are not […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI was watching last night’s game between the Celtics and the Cavs and I was thinking about the fantastic young players the Celtics have on that team, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Terry Rozier. As good as those players are, it felt like the enormity of what they have accomplished […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast week, I was asked this question on Twitter: Crypto Twitter — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 14, 2018 But if you want to read CryptoTwitter, what is the best way to do that? I have curated a bunch of people to follow in my timeline over the last seven years so CryptoTwitter is part of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThere are two major failure modes in startups. The first common failure mode is the thing you make doesn’t get adopted. That’s called not finding product market fit in startup lingo. The second common failure mode is “getting too far out over your skis” and it happens to companies that do find […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI got to spend a fair bit of time with my friend Steven Johnson this past week, in preparation for our crypto talk on Thursday night and before and after that talk. Steven has this wonderful quality of being able to observe both history and the present and make connections between the two and also […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
