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Pushing Through Hour 20 of a 30-Hour Marathon
Bethany Crystal – May 6, 2019
Back in college, I used to do this crazy thing every year called Dance Marathon. Here’s the premise: Dance for 3o hours with 800 other students on campus as part of a massive fundraising drive. “It’s for the kids,” we’d [...] Read more
YouTube TV
Fred Wilson – May 5, 2019
Last summer I threw out our twenty year old satellite dish and decided to finally go over the top. I put a bunch of video streaming apps on our AppleTV to replace the “linear television” that we had been getting [...] Read more
What Do You Think?
Andy Weissman – May 5, 2019
The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway -Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: A Chat With My Partner John
Fred Wilson – May 4, 2019
John Buttrick has been a partner at USV for almost a decade. He mostly focuses on financial services but also does a few other things for us. In this chat with John Siracusa , John talks about how he ended [...] Read more
A Brief Note on Email Introductions
Albert Wenger – May 3, 2019
I wrote a post a few years ago titled “Some Things I Have Learned About Email” which among other things advocates for double opt-in introductions. These have by now thankfully become fairly standard and when people don’t follow the protocol [...] Read more
Unspoken House Rules
Bethany Crystal – May 3, 2019
My husband and I have a blind cat who needs eye drops twice a day. Sometimes he’s home to give her eye drops. Sometimes I am. But it has become a chore that we alternate between ourselves, without any particular [...] Read more
The Long Game
Fred Wilson – May 2, 2019
Entrepreneurship and startup investing is a long game. It requires patience, resilience, capital, commitment, and much more. But even so, the average life of a venture capital investment is seven to ten years. It is rare for it to go [...] Read more
The Mobile Phone Generation
Fred Wilson – May 1, 2019
When those words are spoken, we think about the millennials or gen-z, both of whom have grown up with phones in their pockets or purses and are native users of smart phones. However, I think my parents’ generation, those who [...] Read more
Kickstarter Turns Ten
Fred Wilson – Apr 30, 2019
I noticed that the Kickstarter logo on my phone had confetti on this this morning. So I clicked on it and the app loaded this message on startup: I like that they ended that birthday message with “show me projects”. [...] Read more