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Video Of The Week: The NYS DFS Virtual Currency Hearings
Fred Wilson – Aug 26, 2017
Apparently there is a Netflix documentary on Bitcoin that recently came out. I’ve been hearing from a lot of friends that my NYS DFS testimony from almost four years ago is featured in that documentary. This took place in January [...] Read more
Resource Constraints
Fred Wilson – Aug 23, 2017
Most of the companies I work with tell me that they are resource constrained and do not have enough capital and engineers to do everything they want to do. I tell them that is a blessing not a curse. They [...] Read more
If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Come Up With Fleas
Fred Wilson – Aug 16, 2017
I don't know enough to say with any confidence that our President is a supremacist. But he made a cold hard political calculation that paid off for him when he made these horrible people the foundation of his political base [...] Read more
MBA Mondays
Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2017
For almost four years, from Jan 2010 to late 2013, I would write a column every Monday called MBA Mondays where I tried to cover the basics of a business education here at AVC. There are roughly 200 posts in [...] Read more
Founder Friendly
Fred Wilson – Aug 13, 2017
Long time VC watcher, writer, and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out "founder friendly" each other are now over. It is an interesting observation and was worthy of a reply. The VC [...] Read more
Greed Isn’t Good
Fred Wilson – Aug 7, 2017
The famous Gordon Gekko line that "greed is good" is bandied about quite often to explain why capitalism, and the pursuit of riches, is a positive thing for the economy, society, and the world at large. Greed is not good. [...] Read more
Unrelenting Stress
Fred Wilson – Jul 31, 2017
I saw this Elon Musk tweet yesterday: The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2017 What he describes in that tweet [...] Read more
The SEC Speaks On Tokens
Fred Wilson – Jul 26, 2017
Yesterday the SEC issued a report of investigation finding that DAO Tokens are securities under U.S. law. This report sent shock waves across the crypto sector leading to roughly 10% declines in the major cryptocurrencies. I must have received a [...] Read more
Zemanta – From SeedCamp to Outbrain
Fred Wilson – Jul 25, 2017
In the summer of 2008, I attended the SeedCamp in London and the winner of that class was a company called Zemanta, out of Ljubljana Slovenia. I was taken with everything about Zemanta; a small team (three founders), out of [...] Read more