By Albert Wenger—Feb 25, 2019

NOTE: I will resume posting excerpts from my book World After Capital next Monday. The field for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary has over a dozen declared candidates, including widely known names such as Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders. And on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 24, 2019

I was talking to a friend this past week who is looking at an early stage company and trying to figure out how to value it. He pointed to a similar company that has a public market cap of $250mm. I asked him how many rounds of financing or how many major milestones does this […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Feb 24, 2019

My husband and I just spent the better part of our afternoon researching an upcoming trip we’re planning for Norway later this year. I currently have about 42 different tabs open on two different Google Chrome browser windows, full of Airbnbs and “Top Things to Do in Norway” and flight schedules […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 23, 2019

Trust is rising as a central issue in tech and the Internet. We spend a lot of time at USV thinking about trust and talking about trust. It is part of our current investment thesis . Rachel Botsman is a writer who focuses on trust and her talk at DLD last month was quite good. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Dani Grant—Feb 22, 2019

On Wednesday I hosted an NFT-themed trivia game at NFT.NYC, inspired by the DNSSEC themed quiz that Roy Arends runs at each ICANN meeting. Just in case you like trivia as much as I do, below is the NFT trivia. The top score at NFT.NYC was 7/10, see if you can beat it 🤓. Thanks […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 21, 2019

Savills World Research , a global property agent, has been ranking the world’s top tech cities based on a bunch of criteria for years. In this year’s rankings , NYC tops SF to become the number one tech city in the world. This is just one survey and I am certainly not going to assert […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)