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Labor Day: From the Job Loop to the Knowledge Loop (via Universal Basic Income)
Albert Wenger – Sep 5, 2016
Today we are celebrating Labor Day, a day that was originally started by Labor Unions in the early 1880s. At the time it was not a public holiday but rather took the form of a walkout demonstration or general strike. [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: A New Series
Albert Wenger – Aug 31, 2016
A while back I did a Tech Tuesday series which I thoroughly enjoyed writing. So I have decided to write a new series. This one will be on uncertainty. I was holding off on starting it as I have work [...] Read more
Pre-Money vs. Post-Money Valuation: Best Practice in Term Sheets
Albert Wenger – Aug 30, 2016
Yesterday a debate erupted on Twitter between VCs over whether term sheets should express a company’s valuation in pre-money or post-money terms and whether that even matters. This started with a blog post by Rob Go from Nextview on why [...] Read more
Hello!
Jennifer Campbell – Aug 29, 2016
I'm Jennifer, one of the new analysts on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures! Before joining USV, I studied statistics and computational biology at Harvard, and then worked at a hedge fund after graduation. I'm particularly interested in new financial/banking [...] Read more
Hello From a New Analyst
Jacqueline Garavente – Aug 29, 2016
Hi all! My name is Jacqueline Garavente and I’m excited to introduce myself as one of two new analysts joining the investment team here at USV. Prior to this, I worked in the AI sector at IBM Watson and a [...] Read more
Building Better Algorithms Requires Human Judgment (and Values)
Albert Wenger – Aug 29, 2016
At the end of last week Facebook announced that it would stop having humans write summaries of trending news stories. This follows previous allegations that the selection of trending stories had been changed to remove conservative ones. This is a [...] Read more
Elephant Chart
Fred Wilson – Aug 28, 2016
I came across this chart today. Maybe all of you have seen it, but I hadn't. It is called "the elephant chart" because the shape of the chart looks like an elephant. It was created by Christoph Lakner and Bruno Milanovic for [...] Read more
My GEL 2016 Talk (Video)
Albert Wenger – Aug 25, 2016
Here is my talk from the wonderful GEL conference earlier this year covering some of the ideas from my draft book World After Capital Read more
Programming without Programmers? Aka Software Eating Software Development?
Albert Wenger – Aug 24, 2016
I love programming. I also encourage people to learn some programming because (a) it is a useful way of thinking and (b) much of the world will be programmable. Here is a quick example that I just encountered when I [...] Read more