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Spending vacation time together (and apart)
Bethany Crystal – Dec 22, 2018
A few years ago, I had a week-long work trip to London. During the week, I was working jam-packed days — getting up for breakfast meetings and coffees with customers, working a full day in the office, and even taking [...] Read more
The worst questions you can ask your future employer in a job interview
Bethany Crystal – Dec 21, 2018
So, you landed an in-person job interview? Good for you! You’re one step closer to getting a foot in the door someplace new (and hopefully better) than where you are today. I’m sure you’ve already practiced and prepared a short [...] Read more
The NYC Transit Mess
Fred Wilson – Dec 20, 2018
When Governor Cuomo and the state legislature passed last year’s budget, they formed a committee to address the growing crisis in the NYC metro area transportation systems. That committee was chaired by my longtime friend Kathy Wylde , who runs [...] Read more
The fear of getting back into writing
Bethany Crystal – Dec 20, 2018
There’s been a bit of a movement to get back into writing lately. Between the responses from Anil Dash’s Tweet on how he’s been blogging for 20 years and Hunter Walk’s idea to kick off an all-virtual writing club in [...] Read more
Managing digital addiction
Nick Grossman – Dec 19, 2018
USV’s book club book for this month is Drug Dealer, MD , by Dr. Anna Lembke , Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford Hospital – so we have spent a bunch of time recently talking about addiction. It is not [...] Read more
A Conversation With Tushar Jain
Fred Wilson – Dec 19, 2018
USV is an investor in Multicoin Capital , one of the leading token funds. In late October I attended their Multicoin Summit and spent about 45mins on stage with Tushar Jain , one of the two managing partners at Multicoin. [...] Read more
Knowing who to trust online & offline
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major problem at hand: I hadn’t written down the keycode needed to [...] Read more
Beta testing (and breaking) new systems
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as the guinea pig for “IRL” (in [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Geo-engineering Edition
Albert Wenger – Dec 19, 2018
I have written fairly extensively here on Continuations about climate change, including several times as part of Uncertainty Wednesday. I have also previously stated my support for geo-engineering research as far back as 2009 and again more recently in 2016. [...] Read more