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Nick Grossman

Nick Grossman – Nov 30, 2014

Over the course of the past year, I’ve been interviewed a bunch of times about the “peer economy” or the “sharing economy” (Fastco, Wired, NY Times, PBS Newshour), with most of the focus on the public policy considerations of all [...]  Read more

Free Will (Revisited)

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Nov 28, 2014

About a year and a half ago I wrote a post arguing that there is no free will and also stating that seemed OK to me. As it turns out since then I have been on a fun intellectual and [...]  Read more

Starting with Ourselves

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Nov 25, 2014

I believe in progress. I am optimistic about the longrun. But if we want to get to a better future we have to start by acknowledging how much we still let our emotions control our behavior. It is all around [...]  Read more

The Blockchain Application Stack

Joel Monegro

Joel Monegro – Nov 23, 2014

The first thing Brad taught me when I joined Union Square Ventures is that one of the greatest things about working in the Venture Capital business is that you get to look at markets from a very different vantage point. [...]  Read more

Assembly

Joel Monegro

Joel Monegro – Nov 21, 2014

Web services, like governments, don't make anything, they just create the conditions necessary for their users to create value. Today's largest networks have demonstrated this to be true. Passionate communities have been born out of services like Twitter and Meetup. [...]  Read more

Looking More Closely

Andy Weissman

Andy Weissman – Nov 20, 2014

I was talking when I should have been listening - Grant Hart As venture investors, we look at our investments and investment strategy continuously at a macro level. Questions like: how much are we investing and how fast? How does [...]  Read more

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