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The Daily Dose
Fred Wilson – Jan 15, 2019
At the bottom of the first post on this blog is a widget that contains links to recent blog posts by other USV team members. Many USV folks blog regularly and this widget surfaces those posts to all of you [...] Read more
More Data On VC’s Big Year In 2018
Fred Wilson – Jan 14, 2019
Last week I wrote about and linked to the PWC/CB Insights round up of venture investing in 2018. Well less than a week later Crunchbase is out with its own data on 2018 . The Crunchbase numbers are much bigger, [...] Read more
World After Capital: Patents (Informational Freedom)
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital continues the topic of Informational Freedom, discussing overreach in the patent system and offering prizes as an alternative mechanism. This is timely as the patent office has unfortunately issued new rules that will [...] Read more
Measuring the impact of a VC platform strategy
Bethany Crystal – Jan 14, 2019
Yesterday I joined into a pretty extensive Twitter thread about the importance of “platform efforts” at venture capital firms — or, the post-investment value add engagement work that I do on the Network team at USV. In this thread, folks [...] Read more
Cause Or Effect?
Fred Wilson – Jan 13, 2019
In the wake of Erin Griffith’s piece in the NY Times suggesting that venture capital is toxic for some entrepreneurs, there has been a fair bit of debate about the causes of that situation. Dan Primack tweeted this yesterday: One [...] Read more
Beware of “nostalgia creep”
Bethany Crystal – Jan 13, 2019
You’ve probably heard of “scope creep” — when you tack on extra features or add-ons to the initial scope of a project. The more you add in, the more complicated the project becomes, and the greater the risk that deadlines [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Fred Wilson – Jan 12, 2019
I listened to this 40min interview of Marc and Ben earlier this week. I enjoyed it. Marc and Ben are smart and witty and know how to work off each other. I got a few really good laughs too, which [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Fred Wilson – Jan 12, 2019
I listened to this 40min interview of Marc and Ben earlier this week. I enjoyed it. Marc and Ben are smart and witty and know how to work off each other. I got a few really good laughs too, which [...] Read more
On Crypto and Trust Minimization
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2019
What does it mean to trust someone? Usually, that person (or company, or technology) can take actions that share a bunch of characteristics: the action has a material impact on us, we cannot directly observe the action or judge its [...] Read more