Pacific Time
It’s that time of year again. The Gotham Gal and I are spending the rest of the winter out west. Blog posts will start coming in around 6am PT/9am ET. We plan to spend this winter in Utah (where I [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: A Conversation with Fred Wilson and Carlota Perez”
This was seven years ago. I went back and watched it recently and it has stood the test of time Read more
Owning Yourself
I saw the news today that HuffPo is shutting down their "contributor network." we are ending the HuffPost contributor platform. The platform, which launched in May 2005, was a revolutionary idea at the time: give a megaphone to lots of [...] Read more
Owning Yourself
I saw the news today that HuffPo is shutting down their “contributor network.” we are ending the HuffPost contributor platform. The platform, which launched in May 2005, was a revolutionary idea at the time: give a megaphone to lots of [...] Read more
Beyond The Bitcoin Bubble
My friend Steven Johnson has penned a long and wonderful piece exploring what lies beyond the speculative market in crypto tokens. This essay, which will run in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, but is online now , could not have [...] Read more
Yubikeys
I saw my friend Chris tweet this question yesterday and had to respond: Yubikeys are awesome. Not supported everywhere. I use them where I can — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) January 15, 2018 Nick helped me get Yubikeys set up on [...] Read more
Light And Love
Today we celebrate the life and teachings of the great Martin Luther King Jr. He had a way with words and among my favorites is this quote, which seems very apropos right now: Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can [...] Read more
Martin Luther King Jr Supported Basic Income
We have the USV office closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day. In his book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” he wrote: I strongly recommend reading a longer excerpt from the book, which [...] Read more
You need a budget
I’ve written for a long time about my desire to re-build personal finance infrastructure in ways that benefit people with the least money . We see new personal financial products all the time targeting high value customers, but it still [...] Read more
