A historical collection of our writing.
Etsy announced yesterday that the company has become a Certified B Corporation. In doing so Etsy joins a growing group of now over 500 companies that includes Patagonia and Seventh Generation. We are excited about this as it fits well with our beliefs about the changing role of businesses. Etsy is […] Read more
Today’s blog post is over at the USV blog on Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. It all started with this. Congrats to Chad and the team at Etsy on taking transparency and responsibility to the community and making it not just a commitment but also something that is measured. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday, I tweeted that with the following picture and got quite a few replies and retweets. Some people saw it as a sign of a potential new bubble (or even the imminent collapse of the same) while others said they were happy users of the service. Those different reactions reflect the importance […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
During the last Tech Tuesday we talked about the syntax of programming languages as part of the cycle on programming. That’s a term you will hear frequently in no small part because when you get it wrong the computer will complain about it with a “syntax error.” Today’s topic is much more elusive […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Europe had three elections on the weekend: presidential in France, parliamentary in Greece and regional in Germany. The results are strongly anti-incumbent across he board. In France, Sarkozy is out and Hollande is in. In Greece, the PASOK party went from 160 to 41 seats and no longer has a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For a couple of years now I have been complaining to folks in the Harvard administration that the school is woefully behind when it comes to embracing the Internet. So I was thrilled to see the announcement of the edX initiative with MIT yesterday. The two combined with a $60 million commitment […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
