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The Octopus Card
Nick Grossman – Jan 8, 2019
I am in Hong Kong this week for Blockstack ‘s Decentralizing the World Tour (more on that in a forthcoming post). I arrived yesterday and have been exploring the city a bit. The first observation is how awful the air [...] Read more
The Tortoise And The Hare
Fred Wilson – Jan 8, 2019
Aesop has some great fables but my favorite is The Tortoise and The Hare. I was reminded of it yesterday when I saw this chart in my colleague Nick ‘s deck for a talk he is giving this week in [...] Read more
The onboarding opportunity
Bethany Crystal – Jan 8, 2019
We’re in the midst on onboarding two folks to the Network Team at USV — one new full-time hire and one temp who’s stepping in to cover for a colleague on maternity leave. This has never happened before. As you [...] Read more
Take Your Lumps
Fred Wilson – Jan 7, 2019
The Gotham Gal and I went through our (actually her) angel investments yesterday and figured out which ones went under in 2018 so we could take the tax write-offs on our 2018 returns. It is an odd exercise. Kind of [...] Read more
10 easy ways to make sure people don’t want to read your email
Bethany Crystal – Jan 7, 2019
I spent a good part of this afternoon and evening getting through an email backlog from over the holidays. It seems like many people thought this was a great time of year to send cold emails. So I thought I’d [...] Read more
Stakeholders In A Cryptonetwork
Fred Wilson – Jan 6, 2019
Joel Monegro , who is one of the Partners at Placeholder and a former USV analyst, has written an important post that outlines the relationships between the three primary stakeholders in a cryptonetwork; users, miners/validators, and investors. Joel calls it [...] Read more
Becoming a New Yorker
Bethany Crystal – Jan 6, 2019
They say you’re not a New Yorker until you’ve cried your eyes out in public. If that’s all it takes, then I’ve been a New Yorker since 2008, the year of my very first internship here. Back in college, I [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Flip’s Susannah Vila
Fred Wilson – Jan 5, 2019
Flip is a USV portfolio company. They provide a suite of services to renters that allow them to easily flip out of leases and move when they need to with the cooperation of landlords. Before Flip was a USV portfolio [...] Read more
Diversity in congress: Learn the system (to learn how to break the system)
Bethany Crystal – Jan 4, 2019
Yesterday, the 116th Congress took their oaths as the most diverse congressional class in the history of our nation, with women comprising nearly 1/4 of all seats. I woke up this morning to an exciting flurry of Tweets about this [...] Read more