By Albert Wenger—Oct 5, 2018

I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and there appear to be at least half a dozen bicycle and scooter networks in the city. This makes for a terrible experience because you have to sort of guess which network you might want to use and if that one doesn’t have equipment nearby try […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 4, 2018

2003 was a fertile year for both of us as I started blogging in late September and Joanne picked it up on her birthday a few weeks later. I’m not the only one in this family who blogs every day. It’s incredibly hard to do that. Trust me, I know. And she has more range. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 3, 2018

I listened to this IBM podcast with Matt Glotzbach, CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet , this morning. Matt explains that edtech, a long-standing term for the market for software and technology sold to the education market, is fundamentally different from the newer and exciting market for […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Oct 3, 2018

Our most recent read for the USV book club was the Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. The book chronicles the lives of siblings who as adolescents were foretold the dates of their deaths. One of the key questions we talked about when discussing the book was whether or not one would to know such […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 2, 2018

My view has been, and is, that we are in the “infrastructure phase” of the crypto market development cycle. To elaborate, I believe that we need better infrastructure (e.g. better base chains, better interchain interoperability, better clients, wallets and browsers) before we can see a robust […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Oct 1, 2018

Dani and I have been spending a bunch of time recently thinking about the relationship between applications and infrastructure. It’s a little bit of a chicken and egg situation. You need infrastructure to build apps, but often times you don’t really know what kind of infrastructure is needed until […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)