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Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing”
Fred Wilson – May 6, 2018
There are few investors I have more respect for than Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. So much of what I believe as an investor has come from watching them conduct themselves over the last thirty-five years (that's as long as [...] Read more
Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing”
Fred Wilson – May 6, 2018
There are few investors I have more respect for than Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. So much of what I believe as an investor has come from watching them conduct themselves over the last thirty-five years (that’s as long as [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Kevin Slavin on “Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves”
Fred Wilson – May 5, 2018
There is a new cultural institution being built in NYC right now, the first major new cultural institution built in NYC in quite a while. It is called The Shed and its mission is to be “The first arts center [...] Read more
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – May 4, 2018
I recently finished Nassim Taleb’s latest book “Skin in the Game.” Much like Antifragile previously, I highly recommend reading it. The subtitle of the book is “Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life” and while I am not a fan of the [...] Read more
Founder Control
Fred Wilson – May 3, 2018
I will start this post by stating that I am very much in the “one share one vote” camp. That said, I have supported founder control provisions, like the one that Mark Pincus put in place when he took Zynga [...] Read more
Lauren @ USV
Lauren Young – May 2, 2018
My name is Lauren and I oversee Network Engagement and Partnerships at Union Square Ventures. Read more
Canada
Fred Wilson – May 2, 2018
I'm in Canada today to attend a board meeting. I love Canada. It's a kindler gentler more welcoming version of the US. And it's increasingly an important place to be for the tech sector. About 10% of USV's active portfolio [...] Read more
Canada
Fred Wilson – May 2, 2018
I’m in Canada today to attend a board meeting. I love Canada. It’s a kindler gentler more welcoming version of the US. And it’s increasingly an important place to be for the tech sector. About 10% of USV’s active portfolio [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Beliefs (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2018
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced the idea of beliefs. Today we will make this idea more precise. We started with an extreme belief, the one that a coin is so biased that we will only observe “heads” (H). More realistically [...] Read more