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Uncertainty Wednesday: A Random Variable without Expected Value
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2017
I ended the previous Uncertainty Wednesday post asking whether an expected value always exists. Going back to the definition, the expected value is the “probability weighted average of a random variable.” So let’s construct an example of a random variable [...] Read more
6 Ways Great Companies Use Board Decks to Their Advantage
Max Heald – Oct 17, 2017
After graduating from college in June, I had the chance to spend three months at Union Square Ventures, helping with a project that created anonymous aggregate insights for USV portfolio companies by analyzing data across stages, customers, and industries. Read more
Blog Panic (Backing Up Cloud Services)
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2017
I woke up this past Friday (the 13th) to a DM on Twitter saying that Continuations was down. I immediately tried to open the site on my phone and was greeted by an ominous: At first I figured that maybe [...] Read more
Crypto Asset Allocation
Fred Wilson – Oct 14, 2017
Coindesk did me a disservice with this blog post: USV's Fred Wilson Predicts 'Big' Cryptocurrency Crash https://t.co/P8085HlhW1 pic.twitter.com/8rVaudYnlA — CoinDesk (@coindesk) September 26, 2017 It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. But [...] Read more
Crypto Asset Allocation
Fred Wilson – Oct 14, 2017
Coindesk did me a disservice with this blog post : USV’s Fred Wilson Predicts ‘Big’ Cryptocurrency Crash https://t.co/P8085HlhW1 pic.twitter.com/8rVaudYnlA — CoinDesk (@coindesk) September 26, 2017 It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Luis von Ahn, Founder and CEO of Duolingo
Fred Wilson – Oct 13, 2017
Luis von Ahn is a terrific entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the founder of our portfolio company Duolingo . In this podcast he talks about all sorts of interesting topics. Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Oct 11, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday we dug deeper into understanding the distribution of sample means. I ended with asking why the chart for 100,000 samples of size 10 looked smoother than then one for samples of size 100 (just as a refresher, [...] Read more
Swinging For The Fences
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2017
A number of our portfolio companies use scoring systems to prioritize projects on their roadmaps. I like this one called RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). There are similar versions of this out there. The important thing about these systems is [...] Read more
Swinging For The Fences
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2017
A number of our portfolio companies use scoring systems to prioritize projects on their roadmaps. I like this one called RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). There are similar versions of this out there. The important thing about these systems is [...] Read more