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Excited about MongoDB Atlas (DBaaS)
Albert Wenger – Jun 29, 2016
Yesterday I attended MongoDB World here in Manhattan. There was a huge turnout and excellent sessions but the most exciting part of the day for me was the announcement of MongoDB Atlas. Atlas is MongoDB as a service (part of [...] Read more
Brexit and (Direct) Democracy
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2016
I have been writing here on Continuations and in my book World After Capital that we need to be vigilant and defend democracy. Many people are taking the Brexit vote as evidence that direct democracy is a bad idea. While [...] Read more
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Albert Wenger – Jun 23, 2016
Yesterday we publicly announced our 2016 fund and with it an evolution that has taken place behind the scenes at USV. Andy and I are now the managing partners with Fred, Brad and John continuing to invest and participate fully [...] Read more
USV 2016, LP
John Buttrick – Jun 22, 2016
This week, we will close our first investment in USV’s 2016 fund, which has total capital commitments of $175 million, the same size as our 2014 fund. This will be USV’s fifth early-stage fund. We continue to make new investments [...] Read more
Regulating with Data
Nick Grossman – Jun 21, 2016
We are entering the information age, and as such our fundamental models for accomplishing our goals are changing. In the case of regulation, that means a shift from the industrial, permission-based model to the internet-native, accountability based model Read more
The Path to Learning requires Failing: The DAO
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2016
Both individually and collectively we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Failures make us question our assumptions, successes generally don’t. I therefore welcome the hack of the DAO (even if I wind up losing the 0.5 BTC [...] Read more
The Reordering of Medicine
Andy Weissman – Jun 14, 2016
The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is starting to change fundamentally. This is less about the unbundling of medicine (which may also be happening) but instead the [...] Read more
The Reordering of Medicine
Andy Weissman – Jun 14, 2016
When you wake up in the morning You'll have a brand new feeling And you'll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is [...] Read more
Wattpad Turner Partnership: Write for Television!
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2016
When we first invested in Wattpad in 2011, we were excited about the community for writing and reading stories that was growing all around the world. Much as happened since then, including the publication of After which was a breakout [...] Read more