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World After Capital: Getting over Privacy (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Feb 4, 2019
NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section introduces the idea that privacy is a strategy for freedom that has real downsides if we want to enter the Knowledge Age. In [...] Read more
What’s your ice cream flavor?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 4, 2019
I’m beginning to think that one of the true challenges in leadership is reconciling your own self-perception with that of everybody else around you. As in, what is it that you think you bring to the table? And how does [...] Read more
Understanding Your Investors
Fred Wilson – Feb 3, 2019
To some extent, this blog has been about demystifying venture capital and in particular me and the firm I work at, USV . There are many reasons why I think that is a useful exercise. When I got into the [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Reasons For Optimism
Fred Wilson – Feb 2, 2019
My partner Albert gave this talk at DLD 2019 a couple weeks ago. Read more
Small town effects in big cities
Bethany Crystal – Feb 2, 2019
A couple of weeks ago, we had a really windy storm in New York City. In the morning, we looked outside on our balcony and noticed that the grill cover we have for our electric grill had vanished. We both [...] Read more
The February 1st check-in
Bethany Crystal – Feb 1, 2019
It’s February 1. How are you doing? Have you held firm to whatever promises you told yourself you’d keep this year? Or have you gotten sucked back in? On January 1, maybe you were (like me) sitting somewhere warm. Or [...] Read more
Mark Leslie On Entrepreneurship, Leading, and Selling
Fred Wilson – Jan 31, 2019
I have had the pleasure of sitting on a few higher education boards with Mark Leslie . He’s a very accomplished and wise person. I respect him a lot. In this talk with Peter Levine, Mark talks about some of [...] Read more
Coffee Chat: How do I start a platform strategy at my VC firm?
Bethany Crystal – Jan 31, 2019
About this Series: There’s a list of questions that I get asked a lot about my career and my job, so I’ve decided to turn these into a short series of blog posts that I can use for reference in [...] Read more
Funding Female Founders
Fred Wilson – Jan 30, 2019
As a follow up to yesterday’s post, I asked Zach to calculate the percentage of teams with at least one female founder in our last two core funds. Yesterday, I wrote “I don’t have the exact data on me and [...] Read more