A historical collection of our writing.
I am spending the day today at a mediation regarding the accident two years ago where my wife’s parents were hit by a truck while crossing the street. The past two years have been both difficult and wonderful. Wonderful in that two people who were on the brink of death following the accident are […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI heard about a cool program that helps NYC tech companies build more diverse teams. It is called Winternships. The program is run by a group called WiTNY (Women in Tech and Entrepreneurship in NY) which is a three year-old collaboration between Cornell Tech and CUNY to drive more female students […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMotion Photos is a feature available on Google’s Pixel Phones. It captures a bit of video as you are taking a photo. I’ve always wondered how to share those photos with the motion in them, which you can’t do when you send them as jpeg files. It turns out you can export them from your […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe last time we were in Japan, six years ago, using Google Maps was pretty frustrating. We didn’t understand the Japanese language and addresses made no sense to us. We got lost multiple times a day and often had to find a person on the street who spoke english to help us out. It is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThere is a debate going on about the impact of Facebook, Google, and Amazon’s growing dominance on the consumer internet on the supply of venture capital to entrepreneurs. Facebook funded this report that was published back in July and concluded that “big tech” was not impacting the supply of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe checked into a hotel today and next to the desk in our room was a block of USB ports to charge our phones with and a Bluetooth button. I pushed the button and my phone paired with the room. Now I can play music on the sound system in the room with my phone. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
