Writing

I am a fan of looking at something from all sides and understanding how each side thinks about it. Consider a neighborhood school. There are students, parents, teachers, administrators, non-teaching staff, taxpayers, the community, homeowners (whose home value is impacted [...]  Read more

I saw this chart on Semil ‘s  blog this morning: What is shows is that as the amount of money raised (and deployed) in seed funds has grown over the last ten years, the ability of the companies that received [...]  Read more

The world lost a man of taste, adventure, and humanity yesterday. Anthony Bourdain was an inspiration to everyone in our family. He amplified our love of travel, food, adventure, and other cultures. We will miss him greatly. USV TEAM POSTS: [...]  Read more

There is no shortage of writing and punditry about the power of compound interest . As usual Naval has a pithy tweet about it: Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from [...]  Read more

We have a tradition at USV that one of our new analysts, Dani , coined Proof Of Blog. Excited to be a part of the @usv team (it’s official now – based on Proof of Blog). I’m two weeks in, [...]  Read more

A few months ago, the Gotham Gal asked me to disconnect the Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices we have in our family room. I complied with that request. This is what the two devices look like now: At some [...]  Read more

So the news over the weekend is that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Many companies and developers are thinking “do I want my source code hosted on a service owned by Microsoft?” Fortunately, the protocol that GitHub is built on, Git [...]  Read more

In the blog post announcing changes at SV Angel last week, the SV Angel partners wrote: The amount of money raised in seed rounds has doubled and valuations have increased significantly. I thought I'd go back over the last three [...]  Read more