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Outschool’s Series B
Rebecca Kaden – Sep 18, 2020
In the post about USV’s initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago, I wrote about the dramatic need for innovation in an education system that looked effectively the same as it did 50 years ago. While the internet had altered [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Dear Frontline
Fred Wilson – Sep 18, 2020
I backed this project today to make large scale public art projects honoring frontline workers . Frontline workers have been and continue to be the heroes of this pandemic. They are out there delivering our packages, stocking our stores, caring [...] Read more
Mobile App Stores and Crypto
Fred Wilson – Sep 17, 2020
I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences that the two large mobile operating systems have on distribution of software. I am strongly opposed to the monopolies that Apple [...] Read more
Circulate Networking Events
Fred Wilson – Sep 15, 2020
My friend and former colleague Charlie O’Donnell created a new kind of networking event for the moment we are in. These are virtual networking events designed to “include diverse perspectives in the innovation community.” They are called Circulate . These [...] Read more
Home Sweet Home
Fred Wilson – Sep 14, 2020
We have been back in NYC for about a week after being away for the entire pandemic. We were in LA when the pandemic hit and then spent the summer on the east end of Long Island. Like everyone, we [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Attack Surface Audiobook
Fred Wilson – Sep 11, 2020
The author Cory Doctorow is out with his third book in the Little Brother series. called Attack Surface, and is crowdfunding the audio book to keep it out of the Amazon/Audible ecosystem. I backed the project this week. USV TEAM [...] Read more
Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2
Hanel Baveja – Sep 10, 2020
Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0 In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create [...] Read more
My “Zoom Room” Keyboard and Trackpad Setup
Fred Wilson – Sep 10, 2020
I’ve written about the power of having a really great setup for doing long video meetings. I call it my “zoom room” because it rhymes. I use Google Meet and a bunch of other video services regularly in my Zoom [...] Read more
Bolster Your Management Team And Board
Fred Wilson – Sep 9, 2020
I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and many members of [...] Read more