A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalThe trouble with being sick is that you can’t get anything done. You can’t go outside. (It’s far too cold.) You can’t go out to eat. (Who knows how it’ll affect your stomach?) You can’t make friends at a bar. (Alcohol and DayQuil certainly don’t mix.) It’s too tiring to even think about going […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
The next wave of social systems will likely emphasize breadth and depth differently than the last–and may not look much like social networks at all. With the current networks, the horizontal nature of the platform is the product. Users come for the community. But it may be that with the next, the […] Read more
Fred WilsonNY State Senator Michael Gianaris is leading the efforts to stop Amazon from opening up a large presence in the borough of Queens in NYC. I get that this makes for good politics at some level. Standing up for the taxpayer and expressing outrage at a massive tax giveaway to the one of the wealthiest […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalNobody texted me back. I checked back to my initial texts: One sent at 11:40 a.m. The next sent at 12:59 p.m. The third at 1:41 p.m. The message in each was exactly the same: “Hey, I’d love to see you. It’s been too long. Want to meet up later?” But it was 5 p.m. […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have written a bit about this topic in recent years, at the end of 2017 , and again when the 2018 numbers started showing up . What has happened over the last five years in venture capital is the seed boom stalled out, the late stage market exploded, and the traditional venture capital business […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
After an excursion for the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays into the topic of intelligence, I want to return to how to think about risk. In a post about a decade ago I wrote that it is possible for a startup to be too innovative by trying too many new things at one. Here is the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
