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Progress Is Ugly
Fred Wilson – Feb 26, 2019
I walked out of my house in LA this morning and was greeted with this sight: I thought “ugh” and debated picking it up and putting it where it belongs. I am all for progress and understand that there are [...] Read more
Honoring the work of departing employees
Bethany Crystal – Feb 26, 2019
Let’s imagine you start working at a fast growing organization called Dragon, Co, just before the peak of its heyday. The whole company, at this point, is around 50 people. Everybody knows each other’s names. Together, you built and iterated [...] Read more
Leading vs. following
Nick Grossman – Feb 25, 2019
Last night I went to see RAIN , a Beatles tribute band, with my friend and neighbor Jeff . If you haven’t been to one, tribute bands/shows are kind of odd: on the one hand, typically technically/musically perfect (the tribute [...] Read more
How To Be A Good Board Member
Fred Wilson – Feb 25, 2019
Mark Suster wrote a post this weekend laying out some rules for being a good board member before the meeting, in the meeting, and outside of the meeting. It is a very good list. I particularly like his rules for [...] Read more
More Yang for Your Buck!
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2019
NOTE: I will resume posting excerpts from my book World After Capital next Monday. The field for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary has over a dozen declared candidates, including widely known names such as Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, [...] Read more
The “Doubling Model” For Fundraising
Fred Wilson – Feb 24, 2019
I was talking to a friend this past week who is looking at an early stage company and trying to figure out how to value it. He pointed to a similar company that has a public market cap of $250mm. [...] Read more
Why I love making plans (as a couple)
Bethany Crystal – Feb 24, 2019
My husband and I just spent the better part of our afternoon researching an upcoming trip we’re planning for Norway later this year. I currently have about 42 different tabs open on two different Google Chrome browser windows, full of [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: The Currency Of Trust
Fred Wilson – Feb 23, 2019
Trust is rising as a central issue in tech and the Internet. We spend a lot of time at USV thinking about trust and talking about trust. It is part of our current investment thesis . Rachel Botsman is a [...] Read more
The Great NFT Quiz
Dani Grant – Feb 22, 2019
On Wednesday I hosted an NFT-themed trivia game at NFT.NYC, inspired by the DNSSEC themed quiz that Roy Arends runs at each ICANN meeting. Just in case you like trivia as much as I do, below is the NFT trivia. [...] Read more