### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/the-digital-advertising-duopoly/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/a-fun-way-to-learn-to-create-dapps-in-solidity/)

### 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](http://avc.com/2017/12/the-second-quartile/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/happy-holidays-and-merry-christmas/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/putting-the-year-in-the-review-mirror/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/video-of-the-week-the-token-summit-conversation/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/feature-friday-quote-retweet/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2017/12/nyc-open-source-fintech-meetup/)