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Tokenized Natural Assets
David Gabeau – Apr 29, 2021
This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Natural resources such as fertile land and healthy oceans are the ultimate foundations of the economy and civilization, and their protection and regrowth are [...] Read more
Joining Union Square Ventures
Samson Mesele – Apr 28, 2021
I am delighted to join Union Square Ventures as General Counsel. I am joining the team at an exciting moment. We are pursuing many complex investments across our web and mobile, crypto and climate platforms; our team is thinking hard [...] Read more
Paternalism In The Office
Fred Wilson – Apr 27, 2021
Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, posted a message to his team yesterday in which he outlined a bunch of changes they are making to the way they run the business. Some will be familiar as others have done similar things [...] Read more
Sending Crypto To India
Fred Wilson – Apr 26, 2021
I saw this tweet in my feed yesterday and I sent some ETH to India this morning. Here’s the @gnosisSafe Multisig address to donate in ETH/ERC20 to this address. 0x68A99f89E475a078645f4BAC491360aFe255Dff1 "If you want", Plz fill this form so we can [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Ujjo – The First Hot Sauce for Coffee
Fred Wilson – Apr 23, 2021
“I like coffee, I like hot sauce, would I like hot sauce in my coffee?” So starts the pitch for this Kickstarter . It’s a good one. Since I like coffee and I like hot sauce, I backed it. Email [...] Read more
The Bolster Board Diversity Survey
Fred Wilson – Apr 22, 2021
Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board . In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say [...] Read more
The Vision Thing
Fred Wilson – Apr 21, 2021
A well-known entrepreneur turned VC, who will go unnamed because I am not sure he would want me to share this conversation publicly, once told me “if you remove a founder, you must sell the company within a couple of [...] Read more
Hacking Healthcare
Hanel Baveja – Apr 20, 2021
In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick...sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify [...] Read more
Citibiking
Fred Wilson – Apr 20, 2021
Long-time readers know that I am a big Citibike fan. Citibike is the name of NYC’s bike-share program. I have been blogging about it since it launched in the spring of 2013, eight years ago now. I wrote this at [...] Read more