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Uncertainty Wednesday: Intro to Measuring Uncertainty
Albert Wenger – May 17, 2017
We have covered a lot of ground in Uncertainty Wednesday but we have yet to talk about measuring uncertainty. While most discussions introduce such concepts as mean and standard deviation early on, I have held off on them on purpose [...] Read more
Thoughts on Regulating ICOs
Albert Wenger – May 15, 2017
It appears that regulators are looking into ICOs, the Initial Coin Offerings by which many projects are raising financing at the moment. Regulators are rightly concerned with people losing money in speculative projects that fail to deliver or worse yet [...] Read more
DREAMELIA
Albert Wenger – May 12, 2017
I am super excited to be backing our daughter Katie’s film project on Kickstarter. She is making a horror movie about what it’s like to be a teenager. Which sounds about right. Joking aside, here’s the premise: The reason I [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Day Off for USV Portfolio Summit
Albert Wenger – May 10, 2017
I am taking the day off from Uncertainty Wednesday because today is our portfolio company summit. It is a day I look forward to every year where many of the founders and CEO of our portfolio companies come together. We [...] Read more
Macron Wins in France: Time for an Independent / a New Party in the US?
Albert Wenger – May 8, 2017
I was happy to see Emmanuel Macron solidly defeat Marine LePen in yesterday’s French elections. What is most interesting about his victory is that he started his movement En Marche! only last year. The received wisdom in the United States [...] Read more
Matching Donations to Planned Parenthood
Albert Wenger – May 4, 2017
Today the House may be voting on an act that would have the effect of taking away access to healthcare for many Americans. If it passes that will happen through a variety of mechanisms which make care too expensive for [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Independence (Coin Flipping)
Albert Wenger – May 3, 2017
In the last two installments of Uncertainty Wednesday we looked at the concept of independence and concluded that it was actually quite a strong assumption. Now as one of the comments pointed out, independence is normally introduced in the context [...] Read more
May Day 2017: A New Social Contract with Basic Income
Albert Wenger – May 1, 2017
Last Friday morning I appeared on a panel about the future of work. This is of course a topic I have covered extensively here on Continuations and is a central subject of my draft book World After Capital. One of [...] Read more
Time to Explore Alternative Ownership Structures for Network Effects Businesses including Twitter
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2017
At Union Square Ventures, network effects have been central to our investment thesis for a decade. From an investor perspective network effects are one of the few, possibly the only, source of sustainable competitive advantage in a world where almost [...] Read more