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The Dronebase API – Assign Drone Missions Directly In Your Workflow
Fred Wilson – Feb 15, 2018
Our portfolio company DroneBase announced another round of funding today but the more exciting thing to me is that they have built out and are scaling the operational layer for the drone industry. From their announcement: DroneBase recently completed over [...] Read more
Algorand
Albert Wenger – Feb 15, 2018
We have been writing about the importance of decentralized protocols going back to 2013. Since then a lot has happened, including a run up in the price of Bitcoin (and eventually other crypto currencies), the launch of Ethereum, the rise of ICOs and with them the funding of many new projects. And yet it feels to us that we are still in what Carlota Perez calls the “Installation Phase” of a new technology. That’s the period when a market attracts a lot of capital to help build out the necessary infrastructure. Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day
Fred Wilson – Feb 14, 2018
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. It’s a day to celebrate and and care for the people we love. A special shout-out to my son Josh who was born twenty two years ago today. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — February 12, [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Spurious Correlation (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Feb 14, 2018
So the last two Uncertainty Wednesday posts have been about spurious correlation. Today, I want to give an example of easy it is to observe spurious correlation. To that end I wrote a little Python program which I will show [...] Read more
Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash. Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away (ie [...] Read more
Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash . Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away [...] Read more
Pixel Buds vs AirPods
Fred Wilson – Feb 12, 2018
When I got my new Pixel 2XL recently, the Google Play Store offered me to add the Pixel Buds to my cart and get them for half price. Normally they are $159 (same price as AirPods). So I took up [...] Read more
World After Capital: Digital Technology (Zero Marginal Cost)
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2018
NOTE: Last week’s blog post was the current introduction to my book World After Capital. Today’s post covers the first half of the chapter on Digital Technology, which discusses how zero marginal cost is unlike anything found in the analog [...] Read more
Welcoming Stash to the USV Portfolio
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 11, 2018
Technology makes it possible to serve the mass base of financial services customers with personalized, tailored, high quality products that can improve financial well being for them and their families and result in massive businesses along the way. Which is why we’re excited to announce our investment in Stash out of our Opportunity Fund. Read more