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Rebecca Kaden
Fred Wilson – Oct 20, 2017
USV added a new partner today. Her name is Rebecca Kaden and she introduced herself to our world on the USV blog just now. Rebecca joins a team of fifteen people; our network team, our analysts, and our fantastic administrative [...] Read more
MongoDB IPO and New York Tech
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2017
I spent much of yesterday morning at the NASDAQ for the IPO of our portfolio company MongoDB (now trading as MDB). This is a big milestone for technology companies in New York. We have had New York IPOs before, including [...] Read more
Board Decks Best Practices
Fred Wilson – Oct 18, 2017
At our portfolio company CEO Summit this spring, the 60 or so leaders in attendance asked us if we could figure out a way to aggregate some insights across our entire portfolio and share the data with them. We said [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: A Random Variable without Expected Value
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2017
I ended the previous Uncertainty Wednesday post asking whether an expected value always exists. Going back to the definition, the expected value is the “probability weighted average of a random variable.” So let’s construct an example of a random variable [...] Read more
Blog Panic (Backing Up Cloud Services)
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2017
I woke up this past Friday (the 13th) to a DM on Twitter saying that Continuations was down. I immediately tried to open the site on my phone and was greeted by an ominous: At first I figured that maybe [...] Read more
Crypto Asset Allocation
Fred Wilson – Oct 14, 2017
Coindesk did me a disservice with this blog post: USV's Fred Wilson Predicts 'Big' Cryptocurrency Crash https://t.co/P8085HlhW1 pic.twitter.com/8rVaudYnlA — CoinDesk (@coindesk) September 26, 2017 It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. But [...] Read more
Crypto Asset Allocation
Fred Wilson – Oct 14, 2017
Coindesk did me a disservice with this blog post : USV’s Fred Wilson Predicts ‘Big’ Cryptocurrency Crash https://t.co/P8085HlhW1 pic.twitter.com/8rVaudYnlA — CoinDesk (@coindesk) September 26, 2017 It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Luis von Ahn, Founder and CEO of Duolingo
Fred Wilson – Oct 13, 2017
Luis von Ahn is a terrific entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the founder of our portfolio company Duolingo . In this podcast he talks about all sorts of interesting topics. Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Oct 11, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday we dug deeper into understanding the distribution of sample means. I ended with asking why the chart for 100,000 samples of size 10 looked smoother than then one for samples of size 100 (just as a refresher, [...] Read more