A historical collection of our writing.
China is going through a crack down on social media and is apparently now requiring verified real identities online. This is very clearly an attempt to silence criticism and suppress unrest by making it easy to track down who said what online. I am strongly in support of pseudonyms which is one of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In my blog posts about employment I have made the point that computers are getting better and better at carrying out tasks that previously required humans. The strongest case in point here are Google’s self driving cars. As recently as 2004, the year of the first DARPA Grand Challenge, it looked […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody – Bob Dylan If it is the case that the Internet unbundles things, that the “power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them,” then looking at areas […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
One of our goals for 2012 was to get scuba certified as a family. We took a first run at it in a rushed fashion early in the year but abandoned that effort after a less than pleasant pool dive in Manhattan. In the fall we decided to start the process over and go with […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Earlier this year we invested in New York based Behance. We had known and followed Scott and the team for several years and kept an active dialog about the network of creatives that they have been building. As it turns out, we are not the only ones who believe that this will be an important […] Read more
Fred WilsonCommerce has to be the oldest business model. Sell something to someone. Or maybe it was barter back then. In any case, ecommerce revenues topped $200bn in the US in 2011 and are growing at close to 10% annually. Global ecommerce revenues are at least double that, maybe as much as $500bn depending […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
