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Human Dx
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2013
One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to [...] Read more
Bitcoin As Protocol
Albert Wenger – Oct 31, 2013
We owe many of the innovations that we use every day -- from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. Endusers don't need to understand these any more than [...] Read more
Teaming up with THE Football App
Brad Burnham – Oct 24, 2013
Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major differences [...] Read more
Splice
Andy Weissman – Oct 9, 2013
It feels like it is fairly well understood that the Internet enables unprecedented sharing of information, ideas and content. At USV we have participated in a bunch of services that make it easier to share - such as Twitter, Behance, [...] Read more
VHX
Andy Weissman – Aug 29, 2013
Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; the number of radio stations to listen to music; the number of bookstores to buy books; [...] Read more
Transparency in Government Surveillance
Nick Grossman – Jul 18, 2013
Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely report statistics on government surveillance requests.As we've discussed before, [...] Read more