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Getting in over your head
Nick Grossman – Jun 22, 2017
I was out last night with some of the little league coach dads, and we got to talking about whether it’s better for our kids to be bumped up a level (but be at the lower end of skills/experience) or [...] Read more
Numeraire Is Live
Fred Wilson – Jun 22, 2017
I am happy to write that the Numeraire token is live on the Ethereum blockchain. Read more
Open Source Funding Documents
Fred Wilson – Jun 21, 2017
Cooley, one of the top startup law firms, has open sourced the legal documents required to do a Series Seed or Convertible Note financing. They are available on Cooley’s CooleyGo document generation platform and also on GitHub . Kudos to [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Random Variables
Albert Wenger – Jun 21, 2017
Just a quick reminder on where we currently are in Uncertainty Wednesdays: I had introduced the idea of measuring uncertainty, then we defined what a probability distribution is and learned about entropy, which is a measure of uncertainty that is [...] Read more
MongoDB Stitch: A Fresh Take on Backend As A Service
Albert Wenger – Jun 20, 2017
Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote a post titled “I Want a New Platform” which led to our investment in MongoDB. At the time the company was called 10gen and had developed a Platform as a Service: a Javascript application [...] Read more
Should Your Company Be Profitable?
Fred Wilson – Jun 18, 2017
Mark Suster just put up a long post on this topic . His message is “it depends” and he explains the rationale for investing in growth vs getting profitable. I have come to think about this differently. If you are [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report
Fred Wilson – Jun 17, 2017
This is a few weeks old, but I finally got around to watching it. Mary always does a nice job of summarizing the latest trends. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Marz Crystal — June 15, 2017 If You See Something, Say [...] Read more
Getting Past the Dominance of the Nation State
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2017
One of the important topics that I have not yet addressed in World After Capital is the role of the Nation State. So I am gathering up some of my thoughts in a post first. I believe it is critical [...] Read more
For web platforms: cryptocurrency vs. dollars?
Nick Grossman – Jun 15, 2017
A lot of founders / teams have been asking if they should be adopting a cryptocurrency strategy. This is understandable given the frenzy of fundraising recently and the ongoing dialogue about the potential for cryptocurrencies as an alternative business model [...] Read more