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A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Coinbase announced that they had acquired a company called Paradex, which operates a 0x relay (in other words a decentralized exchange). If you want to know more about what all of that means, [...]  Read more

I don’t have much to say today that I can say. So I thought I’d do a little link blogging instead. Here are some interesting things I read online today: 1/ Tim Wu on a legal framework called “fiduciary duty” [...]  Read more

I realize that immigration is the third rail of our political discourse right now. But one thing should not be controversial. Entrepreneurs exist all over the world and if they want to come to the US, hire our citizens, and [...]  Read more

The world has all-but stopped making new tech unicorns. pic.twitter.com/rppXVg5hWX — Jim Edwards (@Jim_Edwards) May 29, 2018 21 new ones on this list here https://t.co/eZRoyNfACZ WSJ may not know where to look these days — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 29, [...]  Read more

Let’s take some time to remember our fallen service men and women today. After all, that is what today is for. Read more

I looked up the definition of the word commencement and it includes starting something and also the conferring of diplomas. Those seem like two different things. The start of something and the completion of something. But maybe they are the [...]  Read more

Non Fungible Tokens (or NFTs) are one of the most interesting things to emerge in the blockchain sector in the last year. Dieter Shirley came up with the ERC721 spec and the name and I talked to him about both [...]  Read more

As we all know from the flood of emails coming into our inboxes explaining that privacy policies have changed and more, the dawn of the GDPR era is upon us. Technically companies have until tomorrow, May 25th, to get into [...]  Read more

I have been recommending our portfolio company Code Climate ‘s relatively new Velocity product  in most of my recent Board meetings. I hear from management teams again and again that they want to understand their engineering utilization and velocity and [...]  Read more