A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonIn this podcast, Laura Shin and Zach Fallon, of Blakemore Fallon, talk about how to use the SEC’s Reg A regulations to do a token offering. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAirbnb has been operating in NYC and NY State for about ten years now and yet we still don’t have comprehensive home sharing legislation on the books in NY State. The reason is that the enemies of Airbnb, mostly the hotel employee unions, have been fighting Airbnb’s existence in NY State very […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy friend Eric sent us an article in the Globe and Mail yesterday about plans to build a 35 to 40 story tower in Vancouver out of wood. Here’s the link to that story but you can’t read it without a subscription. Contrast that to the dominant way we build tall buildings in NYC which […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen you look at industries that continue to operate on old, outdated, and highly regulated models (education, health care, banking, brokerage, etc, etc), it is interesting to look at the numbers of consumers who are opting out of the legacy model. In K12 education, many people think of charter […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAs I wrote in yesterday’s post , there are good and bad things that come from new technology and new innovations. The challenge for many of us is that the promoters of the technology only want to talk about the upside. And often the media responds by focusing on the downside. It is hard to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI would like to start this post with a disclosure. USV portfolio company Clarifai has one of the best facial recognition models on the market and is very active in the facial recognition market. Now that I have disclosed that, we can move on. Facial recognition has come of age. Machines can figure […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
