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Why Decentralization Matters
Fred Wilson – Feb 19, 2018
As you can see, I am not writing this presidents day weekend. I explained why on friday . Instead I’ve been posting things that I found worth sharing with all of you. Today, I want to share a blog post [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: A Decentralized AI Platform
Fred Wilson – Feb 18, 2018
My friend Gordon texted me this podcast and said “AI, blockchain, and homomorphic data. Trifecta!” I gave it a listen and indeed some very interesting concepts are discussed in this one. Read more
Video Of The Week: Is Crypto the Future of Early Stage Funding?
Fred Wilson – Feb 17, 2018
A lot of people in the crypto sector have suggested that ICOs and tokens are the future of early stage investing and highly disruptive to my business (venture capital). In this video (yet another from the Upfront Conference), VCs and [...] Read more
Fun Friday: Skiing
Fred Wilson – Feb 16, 2018
The long Presidents Weekend has always been ski time for our us. And the same is true this year. We’ve arrived in ski country with a bunch of friends and plan on being put on the mountains for the next [...] Read more
The Power of Continued Innovation: MongoDB Adds Transactions
Albert Wenger – Feb 16, 2018
Yesterday I did a fireside chat at our portfolio company Shippo and someone asked the question how a company can continue to be successful and grow over a long period of time. My answer was: continue to innovate. A company [...] Read more
The Dronebase API – Assign Drone Missions Directly In Your Workflow
Fred Wilson – Feb 15, 2018
Our portfolio company DroneBase announced another round of funding today but the more exciting thing to me is that they have built out and are scaling the operational layer for the drone industry. From their announcement: DroneBase recently completed over [...] Read more
Algorand
Albert Wenger – Feb 15, 2018
We have been writing about the importance of decentralized protocols going back to 2013. Since then a lot has happened, including a run up in the price of Bitcoin (and eventually other crypto currencies), the launch of Ethereum, the rise of ICOs and with them the funding of many new projects. And yet it feels to us that we are still in what Carlota Perez calls the “Installation Phase” of a new technology. That’s the period when a market attracts a lot of capital to help build out the necessary infrastructure. Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day
Fred Wilson – Feb 14, 2018
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. It’s a day to celebrate and and care for the people we love. A special shout-out to my son Josh who was born twenty two years ago today. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — February 12, [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Spurious Correlation (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Feb 14, 2018
So the last two Uncertainty Wednesday posts have been about spurious correlation. Today, I want to give an example of easy it is to observe spurious correlation. To that end I wrote a little Python program which I will show [...] Read more