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Our First Network-Wide Diversity & Inclusion Survey
Bethany Crystal – Jan 23, 2019
We conducted our first network-wide Diversity and Inclusion survey with participation from 50% of USV portfolio companies. Here, we share insights and some metrics data that emerged from this research. Read more
Running our first Diversity & Inclusion survey
Bethany Crystal – Jan 23, 2019
Earlier today, I posted on USV’s blog about how we conducted our first-ever, cross-company diversity & inclusion survey in 2018. You can read more about that here, if you’d like to see what we learned. But I wanted to take [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: More on Sample Correlation under Fat Tails
Albert Wenger – Jan 23, 2019
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I wrote about how sample correlations are not meaningful under fat tails. Today I want to continue this line of argument in the specific context of the claimed relationship between country IQ and GDP. There is strong [...] Read more
Therapeutic Computing
Dani Grant – Jan 22, 2019
As part of the broadening access to wellbeing thesis, we have been searching for projects that bring down the cost of therapy and coaching. 8% of adults and 12% of teens (and as high as 20% of teen women) suffer [...] Read more
What Kind Of Coach Do You Want?
Fred Wilson – Jan 22, 2019
My colleagues and I are asked all the time for recommendations for coaches, mostly for the founders and CEOs we work with, but often for others on the senior team. I am a huge fan of coaches. I think they [...] Read more
Understanding everyone’s motivation
Bethany Crystal – Jan 22, 2019
I think one of the toughest things about being in any group is remembering that everyone has a different underlying drive and motivation. You like to think that, if you’re the one in the meeting making a presentation, that everybody [...] Read more
Reasons for Optimism
Albert Wenger – Jan 22, 2019
NOTE: I will resume posting excerpts from World After Capital next week. A couple of weeks ago I first tweeted about what gives people reasons for optimism and then wrote a post. Both of these were preparations for giving the [...] Read more
MLK Day Quote
Fred Wilson – Jan 21, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of words. He used them to inspire, to rally, and to ultimately bring change. The change he brought is the reason we remember him on this day every year. Many of his words [...] Read more
Coffee Chat: How did you get a job at a VC firm?
Bethany Crystal – Jan 21, 2019
About this Series: There’s a list of questions that I get asked a lot about my career and my job, so I’ve decided to turn these into a short series of blog posts that I can use for reference in [...] Read more