Writing

For the past six months, Jed has been helping USV build some much-needed tools to connect people at our 60+ portfolio companies to each other. It has worked out well, so well that we decided to ask Jed to join [...]  Read more

I read this post yesterday that says that 40% of VC investors went to either Stanford or Harvard . Frankly, I am not surprised. I’ve worked in this industry for over thirty years. It is full of Stanford and Harvard [...]  Read more

I’m oddly excited about solutions like CoinHive that make it feasible to mine cryptocurrencies from a browser. I think we are going to see a lot of distributed and light mining solutions crop up and that in a more mature [...]  Read more

Kin , the cryptocurrency launched by Kik (a USV portfolio company), recently launched adeveloper challenge .The challenge: build a breakout cryptocurrency-based consumer experience. Kinis a cryptocurrency focused on driving mainstream consumer transactions. Kin envisions a world where cryptocurrencies are used [...]  Read more

It is my view and our view at USV that the crypto market is in what Carlota Perez calls the installation phase. We believe that we are still putting the pieces in place for a new technology architecture to take [...]  Read more

I spoke to a group of women entrepreneurs a few weeks ago, and one asked me “why do you need to raise VC?” And the answer is “you don’t.” The vast majority of entrepreneurs out there don’t raise VC. Many [...]  Read more

An entrepreneur asked me a great question last week: When is it OK to say I don’t know in a pitch meeting? I told her the following things: 1/ This varies from investor to investor. Some investors are looking for [...]  Read more