My Slightly Odd and Yet Perfect Father’s Day
I love what I do as a VC at USV. Being involved with many different companies each with unique opportunities and challenges is absolutely amazing. But it does mean that I have very little time to build things myself. So [...] Read more
Cities, Venture for America and the Downtown Project
Last night I went to a fundraiser for Venture for America here in New York. I am happy to report that the place was hopping and hopefully a lot of money was raised. Congratulations to Andrew Yang and his team [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Types (Part 2)
Last Tech Tuesday we got started on data types as port of the ongoing cycle on programming. This post will not make sense without reading Part 1, so if you haven’t you should go back and do that now. We [...] Read more
Speaking at Velocity Conf (Seeking Input)
Velocity is a great O'Reilly conference on web performance and operations and many of the devops attend each year. The theme for 2012 is “A Faster, Stronger Web.” I am honored to be giving a keynote there and what will [...] Read more
Mind The Product (2012 and Always)
Foursquare’s new release was a big deal. I wrote yesterday about the courage it takes to make these kind of changes. Fred posted today about how he loves the “like” for check-ins. My personal favorite is the amazing new feed. [...] Read more
Wattpad!
Today’s post is over on the USV blog about Wattpad’s amazing growth and new round of fundraising. I am excited about about how they are re-imagining the book! Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Types (Part 1)
Since it’s been a couple of weeks first off a quick reminder that we are in the middle of a Tech Tuesday cycle on programming. We left off learning about literals, constants and variables. If you don’t remember, now is [...] Read more
China Impressions: Leapfrogging
All of my China impressions are to be taken with a fairly big grain of salt as I only spent 12 days there and was mostly a tourist. I am sure people who have been living there for years and/or [...] Read more
Back from China
We just got back from spending 12 amazing days in China. Given the 12 hour time difference, I feel a bit like the Panda in the picture below and a more detailed set of impressions will have to wait. But [...] Read more