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Dec 28, 2017

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

Dec 27, 2017

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

Dec 26, 2017

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

Dec 25, 2017

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

Dec 24, 2017

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

Dec 23, 2017

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

Dec 22, 2017

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

Dec 21, 2017

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