A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalYesterday was the monthly meeting of a “boss book club” that I’m a part of. (For reference, this is not a book club comprised of “bosses.” It’s more like an analysis on the workplace term “boss,” in which some ladies and I read business books, then discuss how to apply these tactics to our lives […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThanks for all of the feedback on yesterday’s post . There have been about 250 comments to date and a similar number of email replies. Not surprisingly the feedback from the email replies was overwhelmingly supportive of removing the comments. It seems that most of the people who read via email […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI read a lot of email newsletters and I love the simplicity of them. Receive, read, forward, maybe reply, delete. If I was starting AVC all over again, I’d head over to TinyLetter, which my daughter uses, and start writing. But I’ve got legacy issues to consider. I’ve got an archive, a three letter […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalI own at least 50 different business books. I’ve even read “most of” most of them. And this, in itself, is the trouble with most business books. You can read the first 60% (sometimes, even the first 40%) and get the gist for how the rest of the book will go. This is a terrible […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you can find some of the same material in my Blockstack Berlin presentation). […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI realize that publications need to have a business model to stay afloat. And the past month has seen a number of online publications (and offline publications) layoff a large number of employees. So it isn’t even clear that all of these hard paywalls, soft paywalls, and advertising based models […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
