A historical collection of our writing.
My Twitter feed these days is full with back and forth on “cancel culture.” Much of it quickly reduces to bickering with each side assuming the worst possible interpretation of what the other meant or what their motives are. The latest exhibit here is the Harper’s Open Letter and the reactions to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen the pandemic started, the conventional wisdom was that the capital markets would take a beating, including the venture capital market for startup capital. The second quarter of 2020 is now behind us and we will see the data on it soon. I suspect what we will see is a very active venture […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
ICE announced yesterday that foreign students at schools that only instruct online this fall (which includes my alma mater Harvard) must leave the US. I was a foreign student on an F1 visa and would have been distressed by this. More importantly there are quite a few foreign students for whom there […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonRegular AVC readers may have noticed that after blogging about my once a day routine , I posted twice yesterday. What happened is that I had been planning on blogging about Summer Bridge , a project we’ve been working on for the last few months, first thing Monday morning after the July 4th […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Hanel BavejaNYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program is the nation’s largest youth employment program, historically connecting NYC’s neediest young adults (between the ages of 14 and 24) with a paid work experience every summer. The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into it this summer and it was canceled. In […] Read more
NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program is the nation’s largest youth employment program, historically connecting NYC’s neediest young adults (between the ages of 14 and 24) with a paid work experience every summer. The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into it this summer and it was canceled. In […] Read more
