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Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash. Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away (ie [...] Read more
Stash Your Cash
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2018
My partner Rebecca announced our most recent investment yesterday in a company called Stash . Stash is a simple mobile app that you connect to your bank account and each week (or month) you stash some of your cash away [...] Read more
Pixel Buds vs AirPods
Fred Wilson – Feb 12, 2018
When I got my new Pixel 2XL recently, the Google Play Store offered me to add the Pixel Buds to my cart and get them for half price. Normally they are $159 (same price as AirPods). So I took up [...] Read more
World After Capital: Digital Technology (Zero Marginal Cost)
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2018
NOTE: Last week’s blog post was the current introduction to my book World After Capital. Today’s post covers the first half of the chapter on Digital Technology, which discusses how zero marginal cost is unlike anything found in the analog [...] Read more
Welcoming Stash to the USV Portfolio
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 11, 2018
Technology makes it possible to serve the mass base of financial services customers with personalized, tailored, high quality products that can improve financial well being for them and their families and result in massive businesses along the way. Which is why we’re excited to announce our investment in Stash out of our Opportunity Fund. Read more
Addition by Subtraction
Andy Weissman – Feb 11, 2018
“Dangerfield eliminated everything from his act but the setups and punchlines” Alex Halberstadt’s essay on Rodney Dangerfield is a masterclass on how to improve by reduction. Dangerfield worked for decades as a comedian until he figured out the thing, his [...] Read more
Streaming The Olympics
Fred Wilson – Feb 11, 2018
Yesterday morning something amusing happened. My friend and I were headed out to go skiing and we both got texts from our children asking for the logins to our cable accounts. I thought to myself that there must be tens [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Blockchains: A Shift (Back)Toward Decentralization
Fred Wilson – Feb 10, 2018
Last week I posted a video that the folks at Upfront Ventures did on the current investor mindset in crypto. There are few more videos in this Upfront series and today I am posting one about the shift towards decentralization [...] Read more
USV Level Up Series
Lauren Young – Feb 8, 2018
As our portfolio grows, we can help make more of an impact if we leverage the power of our vast network. One part of that effort in scaling impact is to create an “ambassador-like” program. Our intention is to help [...] Read more