By Fred Wilson—Jan 31, 2019

I have had the pleasure of sitting on a few higher education boards with Mark Leslie . He’s a very accomplished and wise person. I respect him a lot. In this talk with Peter Levine, Mark talks about some of the most important concepts in starting, leading, and building companies. Listen to him. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 31, 2019

About this Series: There’s a list of questions that I get asked a lot about my career and my job, so I’ve decided to turn these into a short series of blog posts that I can use for reference in the future. With each of these, I’m going to pretend like you took me out […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 30, 2019

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, I asked Zach to calculate the percentage of teams with at least one female founder in our last two core funds. Yesterday, I wrote “I don’t have the exact data on me and it would take more time than I have right now to calculate it, but my […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 30, 2019

In Uncertainty Wednesday I have talked a lot about the danger of doing statistics without a model. Another big danger is ignoring dynamic processes and conducting static analyses instead. That is you may have an explanation, such as “a person’s height is influenced by their genes” and you will wind […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Jan 30, 2019

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the fluidity of talent in the tech sector. If you’ve even worked at a startup or tech company, you might sense that it’s pretty common for a regular amount of employee turnover as organizations scale. Last year, our portfolio company Carta found that the […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Jan 29, 2019

Continuing on the theme of what decentralization is good for , this week I would like to focus on one of the most powerful drivers in the near-term: Platform Risk . Platform Risk is is the risk that the tech platform that you build your product/app/business/life on will become a critical […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)