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Somewhere In The Middle
Andy Weissman – Dec 29, 2015
This dynamic - with incumbents making what appear to be aggressive, risky and expensive moves and at the same time new entrants chipping away at the margins and edges - is also being replicated in other industries. Read more
Ask Me Anything: Question 6
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2015
Continuing with the Ask Me Anything series, today’s question is about startup stress And here is my answer Part of reducing startup stress is to take time off. And that’s exactly what I will be doing. We are going away [...] Read more
Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2015
There has been a fair bit of coverage of the potential dangers that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might pose for humanity. Here some questions about AGI with my currently best answers. 1. What is the difference between AI and [...] Read more
The Great Bot Rush of 2015-16
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2015
Natural language is the general purpose “API” for humans and it seems it may become the same for software. Bots are all the rage on several platforms including Telegram and now Slack. Facebook is experimenting with M. There are bots [...] Read more
Introducing Koko
Brad Burnham – Dec 15, 2015
Last week, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times mused in his column that the Internet was getting meaner: “If you’ve logged on to Twitter and Facebook in the waning weeks of 2015, you’ve surely noticed that the Internet now [...] Read more
Book Update
Albert Wenger – Dec 15, 2015
As more regular readers of Continuations will know I have been working on a book that pulls together many of the ideas I have been writing about here. So where does this effort stand? The good news is that over [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Question 5
Albert Wenger – Dec 14, 2015
This time in my Ask Me Anything series, I got a tough question about what kind of institutions we need to provide fairness in the age of the Internet. For example akin to what Public Libraries were in the age [...] Read more
USV Thesis 2.0
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2015
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...] Read more
Capital Is No Longer Scarce
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2015
Capital is no longer scarce. This is an assertion I made a while back in my post “Land, Capital, Attention: This Time it Is the Same.” Today I want to elaborate on that a bit. Estimates put global investible capital [...] Read more