A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonKickstarter kicks off the new year with a campaign called Make 100. The idea is to stimulate a lot of smaller projects where the creator makes 100 of something. It’s a hodgepodge of creativity in the best sense of the word. Here are the current crop of Make 100 projects live on Kickstarter . I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Discuss on Twitter is a WordPress plugin that uses Twitter as the commenting system for your blog. I’ve been developing it over the past few weeks along with Fred Wilson and Kirk Love as part of the launch of AVC 3.0 which went up yesterday. It’s currently live on this blog, as well as AVC […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
For any billionaire out there: fund nuclear fusion now! Consider this: the people who fund successful nuclear fusion are guaranteed a spot in the history books. And that spot will be immediately followed by spots for anybody else who spent serious money ($100 million+) and did not succeed. Why? […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWelcome to the new AVC. This is the third “iteration” of this blog. The first iteration (AVC 1.0) was the Typepad era during which I redesigned AVC a number of times using Typepad’s tools. That lasted from September 2003 to February 2014. About six years ago, we moved AVC to WordPress and did a […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
A few years ago I wrote about one of my favorite product sayings: “Half, Not Half-Assed “, which comes from my favorite book on product development & teamwork, Getting Real (from the team behind Basecamp ). I actually first got hooked into this thinking when I saw one of the Basecamp founders, […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have received a bunch of questions from AVC regulars about this temporary design and what is going on with AVC. As I wrote in the first post in this series :), a couple of files in my WordPress configuration got deleted during the year-end holidays, messing up the look and feel of AVC pretty […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
