By Albert Wenger—Feb 27, 2019

Last Uncertainty Wednesday I wrote about how regression to the mean at least partially explains the “curse” of building extravagant headquarters (which often signals an impending downturn in the performance of a company). Whenever we come up with a detailed causal explanation for something that is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 26, 2019

I walked out of my house in LA this morning and was greeted with this sight: I thought “ugh” and debated picking it up and putting it where it belongs. I am all for progress and understand that there are costs and benefits with everything. This post explains how electric scooters can and likely will […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Feb 26, 2019

There are a million decisions that go into the process of building a company. By surfacing perspectives from 75 companies in our portfolio network, we hope to create tools that help people within each company answer even a fraction of these. […] Read more

By Bethany Crystal—Feb 26, 2019

Let’s imagine you start working at a fast growing organization called Dragon, Co, just before the peak of its heyday. The whole company, at this point, is around 50 people. Everybody knows each other’s names. Together, you built and iterated on the first public launch of a brand new thing. And, […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Feb 25, 2019

Last night I went to see RAIN , a Beatles tribute band, with my friend and neighbor Jeff . If you haven’t been to one, tribute bands/shows are kind of odd: on the one hand, typically technically/musically perfect (the tribute band can play the entire catalog of the original band flawlessly); and on […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 25, 2019

Mark Suster wrote a post this weekend laying out some rules for being a good board member before the meeting, in the meeting, and outside of the meeting. It is a very good list. I particularly like his rules for outside of the board meeting and agree with him that is the most important part […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)