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A Trip Down Memory Lane
Fred Wilson – Dec 18, 2018
With the news of Google and Amazon’s huge expansions into NYC, many people are asking “how did NYC tech get to this place?” Well, I am going to post a 25 minute video history lesson at the end of this [...] Read more
Supersize Your DJ Set
Fred Wilson – Dec 17, 2018
Our portfolio company SoundCloud just launched a pretty cool thing. If you are a DJ and use one of the popular DJ software products, you can plug SoundCloud into it and make your mixes right from the cloud . Here’s [...] Read more
Negotiating: Drawing A Hard Line or Building A Negotiating Cushion? – AVC
Fred Wilson – Dec 16, 2018
Pixel Slate
Fred Wilson – Dec 12, 2018
My Chromebook journey has led me to the Pixel Slate. As I wrote here a few months ago , I have wanted to move to a Chromebook for a while and I finally decided to do it. I started with [...] Read more
When Markets Overcorrect
Fred Wilson – Dec 11, 2018
When capital markets change direction, to the upside or to the downside, they often go too far before finding the right balance. When they overshoot to the downside, you can find some real values. Back in the financial crisis of [...] Read more
Leadership and Self Care
Fred Wilson – Dec 10, 2018
I saw this tweetstorm by Jack Dorsey on Saturday evening and thought "Good, Jack is taking care of himself." For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar 🇲🇲. We [...] Read more
Thinking Ahead To 2019
Fred Wilson – Dec 9, 2018
In the last week, we have learned that Uber, Lyft, and Slack plan 2019 IPOs. I am sure that a few more highly valued private companies are also planning to go public in 2019. It is something that I have [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: The Shifting Funding Landscape
Fred Wilson – Dec 8, 2018
Our friend and USV Limited Partner Beezer Clarkson hosted a panel at the recent Slush Conference in Helsinki talking about the shifting landscape for startup funding. My partner Rebecca participated on the panel along with several others. It’s a roughly [...] Read more
Google Photos Feature Request
Fred Wilson – Dec 6, 2018
I think Google Photos is awesome. It is one of my favorite Google products. The photo search is amazing. And the sync from my Pixel phone to Photos works beautifully. But there is one thing that bugs me about Google [...] Read more