A historical collection of our writing.
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, I first introduced the idea that even a very simple explanation in the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For 2017 I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first is to get into better shape (yes, like just about everyone else judging from the crowd at the gym today). The second is to finish my book World After Capital. For that I will need some help. I am looking for a research assistant who […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Having been fortunate to take two weeks off on a family vacation and stayed away from most news, I feel ready to tackle 2017. Going into this new year I am reminding myself of two principles that apply equally well to startups and to politics. 1. Change produces information. This is something I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonUSV recently made two investments in hedge fund managers. You might gather from that fact that we are moving away from venture capital. But that would be an incorrect assumption. What we are doing is finding new ways to invest in technologies that we think are interesting. These would be […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Part of the genius of the Internet is its ability to coordinate the actions of many disparate and geographically diverse people by eliminating the marginal cost of sharing information. In the last few decades alone, we’ve seen this happen again and again in areas such as education, science and […] Read more
Last week I noticed that I had received several cold emails from entrepreneurs that started in exactly the same fashion: So I decided to tweet about it because it appeared as if people had just copied a template. Sure enough the source for this is a blog post titled “How to Cold Email an Investor” […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
