### Apr 22, 2018

Google Finance and Yahoo Finance are two web services I have used daily since the early days of the Internet. I have used Yahoo Finance since it first launched in January 1997. But after Google Finance launched in 2006, I [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/04/google-finance/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 21, 2018

AVC regular William Mougayar posted a slide deck he calls State Of Tokens this week. I like the deck a lot, particularly slide 34 (it’s a 36 slide deck), where he posits a timeline for the development of the blockchain [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/04/slideshare-of-the-week-state-of-tokens/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 19, 2018

I wrote those words to a friend of mine yesterday. We are working on a project together. He wrote me an email listing a whole bunch of investments to be made and where we are on them. I read it [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/04/i-cant-do-math-in-prose/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 18, 2018

The news broke earlier this week that our portfolio company Coinbase has acquired Earn.com. A lot of the press attention was centered around the fact that Earn’s CEO Balaji Srinivasan is becoming Coinbase’s CTO and the backstory about how Earn [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/04/earn-com/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 17, 2018

In the fall of 2010, I wrote a series of nine blog posts about Employee Equity as part of MBA Mondays. You can read all of them at the links below: Employee Equity: How Much? November 22, 2010 Employee Equity: Vesting [Read more](http://avc.com/2018/04/the-employee-equity-project/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 16, 2018

My friend Chris Burniske told me about this site last week and then tweeted about it last night: So the answer to the question posed by the name of the website is “not really.” But that doesn’t mean we won’t [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/04/are-we-decentralized-yet/)

---

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

–

### Apr 15, 2018

One of the least discussed aspects of investing in startups is the value of the time commitment one makes to a company they invest in. The money part is pretty simple; you invest capital into a business and get an [Read more](http://avc.com/2018/04/time-and-money/)