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FINOS
Fred Wilson – Apr 25, 2018
In December I wrote about the Symphony Software Foundation as it was launching the NYC Open Source Fintech Meetup . Yesterday the foundation announced a new name: FINOS. FINOS is about supporting open source software efforts across the financial services [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Beliefs
Albert Wenger – Apr 25, 2018
The last few weeks in Uncertainty Wednesday we took a detailed look at the various problems with p-values. Now we will start to work towards an alternative approach based on Bayesian inference. Along the way though we have a chance [...] Read more
The Brave Browser
Fred Wilson – Apr 24, 2018
A number of USV folks are using the Brave browser on their phones and thinking about using it on desktop too. We are not the average internet users at USV. We tend toward early adopter. So I polled my twitter followers [...] Read more
The AVC Audience
Fred Wilson – Apr 23, 2018
As I slowly heard toward moving the WordPress instance that hosts AVC to another provider, I was asked how large the audience was. So I went and looked for the first time in a long while and sent that info [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Needs)
Albert Wenger – Apr 23, 2018
NOTE: This is the last post for the foundations section from my book World After Capital. In it I propose a catalog of basic human needs. As set out earlier much of today’s confusion around scarcity results from our willful [...] Read more
Google Finance
Fred Wilson – Apr 22, 2018
Google Finance and Yahoo Finance are two web services I have used daily since the early days of the Internet. I have used Yahoo Finance since it first launched in January 1997. But after Google Finance launched in 2006, I [...] Read more
Google Finance
Fred Wilson – Apr 22, 2018
Google Finance and Yahoo Finance are two web services I have used daily since the early days of the Internet. I have used Yahoo Finance since it first launched in January 1997. But after Google Finance launched in 2006, I [...] Read more
Slideshare Of The Week: State of Tokens
Fred Wilson – Apr 21, 2018
AVC regular William Mougayar posted a slide deck he calls State Of Tokens this week. I like the deck a lot, particularly slide 34 (it’s a 36 slide deck), where he posits a timeline for the development of the blockchain [...] Read more
Hello!
Zach Goldstein – Apr 20, 2018
I’m Zach, one of the new analysts at USV. I'm excited to be a part of this team and eager to find and support entrepreneurs on their quests to innovate. Read more