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10 easy ways to make sure people don’t want to read your email
Bethany Crystal – Jan 7, 2019
I spent a good part of this afternoon and evening getting through an email backlog from over the holidays. It seems like many people thought this was a great time of year to send cold emails. So I thought I’d [...] Read more
Stakeholders In A Cryptonetwork
Fred Wilson – Jan 6, 2019
Joel Monegro , who is one of the Partners at Placeholder and a former USV analyst, has written an important post that outlines the relationships between the three primary stakeholders in a cryptonetwork; users, miners/validators, and investors. Joel calls it [...] Read more
Becoming a New Yorker
Bethany Crystal – Jan 6, 2019
They say you’re not a New Yorker until you’ve cried your eyes out in public. If that’s all it takes, then I’ve been a New Yorker since 2008, the year of my very first internship here. Back in college, I [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Flip’s Susannah Vila
Fred Wilson – Jan 5, 2019
Flip is a USV portfolio company. They provide a suite of services to renters that allow them to easily flip out of leases and move when they need to with the cooperation of landlords. Before Flip was a USV portfolio [...] Read more
Diversity in congress: Learn the system (to learn how to break the system)
Bethany Crystal – Jan 4, 2019
Yesterday, the 116th Congress took their oaths as the most diverse congressional class in the history of our nation, with women comprising nearly 1/4 of all seats. I woke up this morning to an exciting flurry of Tweets about this [...] Read more
Scratch 3
Fred Wilson – Jan 3, 2019
As many of you know, I have been spending a fair bit of my time on K12 Computer Science Education over the last decade. The good news is that over that time period, there has been massive progress in getting [...] Read more
How can you measure the importance of “soft skills”?
Bethany Crystal – Jan 3, 2019
Digital Divisions Earlier this fall, my husband and I took ourselves out for a “date night” in New York City and wound up at a Japanese steakhouse restaurant, one where you’re seating at a table of 8–10 other people and [...] Read more
Taking A Stance
Fred Wilson – Jan 2, 2019
As is always the case, I got a lot of feedback on yesterday’s predictions post . Most of it was constructive . Some of it was fawning (yuck). And some of it was snickering . That’s how it goes when [...] Read more
The dumb question danger zone
Bethany Crystal – Jan 2, 2019
They tell us this when we’re young: There’s no such thing as a dumb question. But the older I get, for some reason, the harder it is to remember this. Maybe there’s something about ego that gets in the way [...] Read more