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Uncertainty Wednesday: Leadership under Uncertainty
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2018
A startup founder I know likes to say that their leadership style is “frequently wrong, but never in doubt.” Often that expression is applied as a critique, such as in Cheryl Wheeler’s song Driving Home, but the founder meant it [...] Read more
Candidates, don’t forget: You’re interviewing the company, too
Bethany Crystal – Dec 12, 2018
In a recent interview experience at USV, two candidates flipped the switch on the traditional process. Rather than wait for me on a next step, they turned me down after our first interview. Talk about shaking up the norm. But [...] Read more
When Markets Overcorrect
Fred Wilson – Dec 11, 2018
When capital markets change direction, to the upside or to the downside, they often go too far before finding the right balance. When they overshoot to the downside, you can find some real values. Back in the financial crisis of [...] Read more
Holo Kitty
Dani Grant – Dec 11, 2018
My latest project is a holographic cat you can pet. 🐈! Read more
Google Pixel Slate: First Impressions
Nick Grossman – Dec 10, 2018
For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with the Pixel Slate , Google’s new hybrid tablet/laptop. Here is me typing this blog post right now, on the train to NYC. For a longer, more technical analysis, this review [...] Read more
Leadership and Self Care
Fred Wilson – Dec 10, 2018
I saw this tweetstorm by Jack Dorsey on Saturday evening and thought "Good, Jack is taking care of himself." For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar 🇲🇲. We [...] Read more
World After Capital: Bots for All of Us (Informational Freedom)
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2018
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Currently we are on the Informational Freedom section and the previous excerpt was on Internet Access. Today looks at the right to be represented by a bot (code [...] Read more
Thinking Ahead To 2019
Fred Wilson – Dec 9, 2018
In the last week, we have learned that Uber, Lyft, and Slack plan 2019 IPOs. I am sure that a few more highly valued private companies are also planning to go public in 2019. It is something that I have [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: The Shifting Funding Landscape
Fred Wilson – Dec 8, 2018
Our friend and USV Limited Partner Beezer Clarkson hosted a panel at the recent Slush Conference in Helsinki talking about the shifting landscape for startup funding. My partner Rebecca participated on the panel along with several others. It’s a roughly [...] Read more