A historical collection of our writing.
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post titled “Hacking Textbooks – We Need It” where I pointed out that college textbooks are a $7B annual market in the US alone. I was therefore thrilled to see that California last week passed a law to attempt to create free creative commons-licensed textbooks. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Since I first wrote about the Benefit Corporation several great things have happened, including New York State passing legislation and Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. Since most venture backed companies are incorporated in Delaware, it would be terrific to see Benefit Corporation legislation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because there are great discussions about a far ranging set of topics from hiring to business models. This year as an opener we went around the room and everyone […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In today’s Tech Tuesday we are continuing our romp through Data Structures as part of the ongoing series on programming by looking at JSON. Now technically JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is not a data structure but a textual notation (as its name implies). But JSON has become […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy favorite course in business school was Financial Statement Analysis. It was like taking a course in investigative journalism or learning how to be a police detective. The professor explained that if you look hard enough, you can learn most anything you want about a business from the numbers. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Over the years I have tried a number of different financial advisors but have never been particularly happy. In particular, I have found that most of them seemed to ignore long term trends that I believe in and seemed to basing asset allocation more on generic models. So relatively recently I have […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
