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The Reordering of Medicine

When you wake up in the morning You'll have a brand new feeling And you'll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is [...]  Read more

Mediachain

"This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting" This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on April 17th. It quickly made it to the front page of Reddit, ultimately garnering over [...]  Read more

Somewhere In The Middle

This dynamic - with incumbents making what appear to be aggressive, risky and expensive moves and at the same time new entrants chipping away at the margins and edges - is also being replicated in other industries. Read more

USV Thesis 2.0

Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...]  Read more

No Stack Startups

One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promote content; (3) distribution; (4) figure out the best user interface or experience for its [...]  Read more

Changing Metaphors

"Photograph - all I've got is a photograph. But it's not enough" Def Leppard Wikipedia tells us that the word "photograph" derives from the Greek words phos and graphê, together meaning "drawing with light." I suppose that for a hundred [...]  Read more

Looking More Closely

I was talking when I should have been listening - Grant Hart As venture investors, we look at our investments and investment strategy continuously at a macro level. Questions like: how much are we investing and how fast? How does [...]  Read more