A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonWe are now seeing a wave of longtime private companies coming public and with that we are getting data on usage, financial performance, and a host of other issues that is very useful market data. I spent some time looking at Pinterest’s S1 today. They filed it a week or two ago. I found this […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWell it looks like NYC is finally going to get congestion pricing , a technique used successfully in a number of cities around the world to reduce the number of cars on the road and increase the investment in mass transit. The concept is simple. Tax cars coming into the center of a city and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
In the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays, we have been looking at various fallacies arising from our lack of appreciation of uncertainty, such as imperfect correlation (narrative fallacy) and the baserate fallacy. Today we will look at hindsight bias, for which the Mueller Report provides as perfect […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe’ve been trying a big ambitious experiment in NYC over the last five years. We are training over 5,000 teachers to teach computer science classes in elementary school, middle school, and high school. We call it CS4All . It sounds simple, but it is anything but simple. And it is expensive. We are […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy colleague Nick wrote a post today about his productivity system . Nick’s system is way more elaborate than mine, but everyone has to find their own way of getting things done. What I found most interesting about Nick’s post is what I put in the headline of this post. Our jobs at USV are […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Like most people, I have struggled over the years to comes up with a organizational/productivity system that works for me. Disclaimer: I do not yet have it down perfectly, and am not claiming guru status. But I do have a few things that have worked pretty well, and I have noticed some things that […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
