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The Quest for a Stable Coin
Albert Wenger – Dec 8, 2017
One of the objections against crypto currencies has been their volatility. Bitcoin for instance just rose by about 60% over 2 days only to then fall by about 15% in a matter of hours. Steam just ended bitcoin support citing [...] Read more
CS Education Week In NYC
Fred Wilson – Dec 7, 2017
All over the city this week, students in NYC’s public schools have been celebrating CS Education Week by doing events and hackathons to showcase their coding skills. Through NYC’s CS4All program , over 1000 teachers have been trained to teach [...] Read more
Un-Super-Vised
Fred Wilson – Dec 6, 2017
My partner Andy and I were playing with the latest crypto craze, cryptokitties , this weekend and he suggested we sire a USV kitty. So he contributed a parent from his collection and I contributed a parent from my collection [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Suppressed Volatility
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday provided a recap on our adventures with sample means and what those implied about the difficulties of inference. Now we will look at another equally fascinating complication: inferring volatility. As the title of this initial post gives [...] Read more
Disqus and Zeta
Fred Wilson – Dec 5, 2017
Today, our portfolio company Disqus , which makes the software that powers the comments on this blog, is announcing that they have joined the Zeta Global empire. Read more
What Does it Mean to Be Human?
Albert Wenger – Dec 5, 2017
[This is a talk I was going to give at Slush but had to change my travel plans.] A 12 minute talk should be plenty to address this simple question. Just kidding. This is one of the profound questions that [...] Read more
CryptoKitties
Jacqueline Garavente – Dec 4, 2017
Un-Super-Vised I’ve been beating the drum on digital pets and economies of scale for digital assets for a while at USV. I really thought (and still think!) that would be the killer use case for Augmented Reality. Alas, AR has [...] Read more
The Early Stage Slump
Fred Wilson – Dec 3, 2017
I tweeted out this article from Techcrunch in the middle of last week: "we believe 2012-16 was a bubble in early-stage funding" https://t.co/VZlKOCDg5P — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) December 1, 2017 And the response from the Twittersphere was a desire to [...] Read more
The Early Stage Slump
Fred Wilson – Dec 3, 2017
I tweeted out this article from Techcrunch in the middle of last week: “we believe 2012-16 was a bubble in early-stage funding” https://t.co/VZlKOCDg5P — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) December 1, 2017 And the response from the Twittersphere was a desire to [...] Read more