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Swinging For The Fences
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2017
A number of our portfolio companies use scoring systems to prioritize projects on their roadmaps. I like this one called RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). There are similar versions of this out there. The important thing about these systems is [...] Read more
Swinging For The Fences
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2017
A number of our portfolio companies use scoring systems to prioritize projects on their roadmaps. I like this one called RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). There are similar versions of this out there. The important thing about these systems is [...] Read more
The Conversational Pitch
Fred Wilson – Oct 9, 2017
Lately I have noticed an increase in entrepreneurs coming into USV (or videoing into USV) and talking to us about their business without the use of a deck. I don't know what to make of that to be honest. But [...] Read more
The Conversational Pitch
Fred Wilson – Oct 9, 2017
Lately I have noticed an increase in entrepreneurs coming into USV (or videoing into USV) and talking to us about their business without the use of a deck. I don’t know what to make of that to be honest. But [...] Read more
Support idyll – Interactive Narratives
Albert Wenger – Oct 9, 2017
I am excited about a new open source project called idyll. Here is how Matthew Conlen, the lead author, describes idyll The project seems like an important step in the direction of an interactive learning environment that seamlessly combines text, [...] Read more
Locked and Unlocked Phones
Fred Wilson – Oct 8, 2017
We landed in Vietnam yesterday and immediately got a text from TMobile that they don’t offer data roaming in Vietnam. They do offer basic voice and SMS. So we bought two 10GB data only SIM cards in the airport for [...] Read more
The NYU Courant MS-CEI Program
Fred Wilson – Oct 4, 2017
I was on the board of NYU for almost a decade until recently stepping down. I learned a ton about NYU during that time and one of the things I learned was that NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, we started to look at the behavior of the mean of a sample by repeatedly drawing samples. We used a sample of 10 rolls of a fair die. We know that the expected value of the probability [...] Read more
Las Vegas Mass Shooting and Life’s Fundamental Asymmetry
Albert Wenger – Oct 2, 2017
I was going to write a post today about how liquidity in financial markets goes down as concentration of holdings goes up but then I woke up to the news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last night. I [...] Read more