Writing

This chart from eMarketer really brings it home. We have a digital advertising duopoly. The difference between second and third place is massive. I don’t want nor do I expect any governmental response to this market failure. I want to [...]  Read more

One of the reasons I am rooting for the Ethereum community to address many of its current issues (scalability being the big one) is that there is a clear developer platform opportunity for Ethereum. The Ethereum programming language Solidity is [...]  Read more

As I have written about here on AVC many times, early stage venture portfolios produce a wide range of outcomes. A few investments produce the vast majority of the returns while many investments return nothing. Managing a portfolio with power [...]  Read more

As I have written about here on AVC many times, early stage venture portfolios produce a wide range of outcomes. A few investments produce the vast majority of the returns while many investments return nothing. Managing a portfolio with power [...]  Read more

I am publishing my annual year end playlist as a holiday gift to the AVC community. I did 21 songs last year but 2017 was a great year for music, so I thought I would double that to 42. And [...]  Read more

I’m in the process of going over all of the songs I favorited this year and putting my top ones into a playlist and then culling that list. I’m planning on posting it at some point this coming week, maybe [...]  Read more

As I start thinking about 2017 and what happened this year in the world of startups and tech, I am going back and watching and reading things that stayed with me this year. This talk between William and me at [...]  Read more

One of my favorite features on Twitter is the ability to retweet something with added context. Like this: This is a terrible idea https://t.co/5yHt65M8qY — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) December 22, 2017 I do this a lot: “NYC Female Founders Office [...]  Read more

Open source software is a critical part of the tech stack for many organizations, both large corporations and early-stage startups alike. For various reasons, the financial services industry, one of the dominant industries in NYC, has lagged other sectors in [...]  Read more