A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonMany people who follow tech know that Spotify has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding the challenges that Spotify has doing business in the iOS app store. I am very sympathetic to Spotify’s complaint. In my post last week on The Warren Breakup Plan , I wrote: The mobile app […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Dani GrantJulia Dahl tweeted an amazing graph showing how the number of people working in administrative roles in health care is skyrocketing: Only 9% goes to payment for physicians. The cost of physicians has not significantly increased as proportion of the spend. pic.twitter.com/NJWtsJS6te — Julia Dahl […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)
At dinner last night a friend in his mid 50s asked, quite genuinely: so what exactly is a meme? Our teenage son laughed about this apparent ignorance but the confusion is well founded given that many people today use the word to mean a short lived fad on the internet, as compared to the original […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhile we wait for the blockchain/crypto technology to scale to the point where it can be the foundation of mainstream consumer applications (games, social media, e-commerce, etc), there is a sector where scalability is a little less important and where blockchain/crypto is starting to show some […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonStartups are generally not funded by just one investor. They are usually funded by a collection of investors; the angel syndicate, followed by the seed syndicate, followed by the VC syndicate. This gives the founder the opportunity to gain insights and advice from a group of people versus just one. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
The last couple of Uncertainty Wednesdays examined fallacies based on statistical phenomena such as imperfect correlation and the base rate. Another one of these has to do with small numbers. A famous example of this fallacy occurred when a study showed that among the best performing schools in the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
