A historical collection of our writing.
The Internet has experienced an epic set of attacks over the last few months. This has ranged from massive compromises such as Sony’s Playstation Network to the smaller but potentially equally impactful breach of Mt. Gox (a bitcoin exchange that is still trying to recover). The affected entities […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I had an opportunity to buy shares in the Pandora IPO but chose not to. If I was a super active trader and had stayed on top of it I could have made a fair bit of money as the stock popped by about 60% in early trading but closed even the first day up […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well. —- We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we are constantly reminded of the power of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we are constantly reminded of the power of the community. Whenever we are presented with the opportunity to invest in an emerging new Internet […] Read more
For the end of her 5th grade, my daughter had to complete something called the “capstone project” – meant to be a first original research project. She came up with what I thought was a rather original project: she wanted to look into “how does ESP work?” Her teacher didn’t seem to think so and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This is the week for “revisited” blog posts. Today: bitcoin. In my first post about bitcoin I expressed my concern that we may be experiencing a speculative bubble that might ultimately destroy the currency’s usefulness. Since that post, which was just last week, the $/bitcoin rate has gone from $8 […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
