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Leading The People Side Of The Organization
Fred Wilson – Jun 14, 2018
In yesterday’s post , which seemed to touch a nerve, something I certainly seek to do from time to time, I mentioned the “talent organizations” of our portfolio companies. These are the people who help a founder/CEO build and lead [...] Read more
The Valuation Obsession
Fred Wilson – Jun 13, 2018
There is an obsession with the values that are being placed on companies when they finance. There has always been one but it is worse than ever. Every day, without fail, I read a headline that so and so company [...] Read more
Do Your Homework Before Sending That Email
Fred Wilson – Jun 12, 2018
I saw this tweet today from our friend Arianna and I had a good chuckle: Love when people cold email me with a pitch and ask to set up a call with management. Hi, that’s me! 🙋🏻♀️ — Arianna Simpson [...] Read more
An Overview Of The Distributed Computing Landscape
Dani Grant – Jun 11, 2018
People have been trying to build distributed compute networks since the 1990’s; In 1996, GIMPS used distributed compute to search for prime numbers and in 1999, Seti@Home used volunteers’ compute power to search for extraterrestrial life. Now 25 years later, [...] Read more
Stakeholder Analysis
Fred Wilson – Jun 11, 2018
I am a fan of looking at something from all sides and understanding how each side thinks about it. Consider a neighborhood school. There are students, parents, teachers, administrators, non-teaching staff, taxpayers, the community, homeowners (whose home value is impacted [...] Read more
Supply And Demand
Fred Wilson – Jun 10, 2018
I saw this chart on Semil ‘s blog this morning: What is shows is that as the amount of money raised (and deployed) in seed funds has grown over the last ten years, the ability of the companies that received [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: The Noodle Slurp
Fred Wilson – Jun 9, 2018
The world lost a man of taste, adventure, and humanity yesterday. Anthony Bourdain was an inspiration to everyone in our family. He amplified our love of travel, food, adventure, and other cultures. We will miss him greatly. USV TEAM POSTS: [...] Read more
Compound interest goes in both directions
Nick Grossman – Jun 7, 2018
There is no shortage of writing and punditry about the power of compound interest . As usual Naval has a pithy tweet about it: Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from [...] Read more
Proof Of Blog
Fred Wilson – Jun 7, 2018
We have a tradition at USV that one of our new analysts, Dani , coined Proof Of Blog. Excited to be a part of the @usv team (it’s official now – based on Proof of Blog). I’m two weeks in, [...] Read more