A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a time to celebrate life. And that is what I plan to do. I will make […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonGetting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as smart home controllers. The Apple identity management and app store systems feel like they were built […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe had torrential rains last night and around 3am, I woke up and realized that I had left the soft top open on our Jeep Wrangler. The lighting was coming down hot and heavy so I waited it out and eventually went outside and put the soft top up. But the damage was done. When […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Dani GrantIn yesterday’s episode of The Indicator , Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia buy their first CryptoKitty. You can listen to the episode here . Just the first step of creating a Coinbase account and buying ETH took the two of them over an hour. “It got really frustrating...all of […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’ve written about this Android feature before. I am a bit obsessed about it. When you are in a place where music is playing, the Android operating system notifies you what is “now playing.” I have two things I would love to know how to do with this information. 1/ Access it via an API […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe disclosure police have been making noises in the comments here at AVC and on Twitter that suggest I do not disclose conflicts and other important information when I write about things I am close to here at AVC. I thought I would take a moment to describe how I think about this issue: 1/ […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
