A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI wrote the email below to a founder doing his first board meeting. Board meetings can provide a leadership team with a perspective on the business that can be very helpful. But many Board meetings are simply reporting sessions. That is a wasted opportunity in my view. So setting them up right and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Jared HechtToday Fred wrote a post about how writing is a conversation. There are some incredible gems in it: What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing online is a conversation. What I mean by that is that you are not trying to publish complete ideas. You are […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe number one thing I hear from people who want to write online more is that they struggle to publish incomplete ideas and unpolished compositions. What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing online is a conversation. What I mean by that is that you are […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
The LibrarianA (tiny) monthly newsletter inspired by our Monday Meeting […] Read more
Fred WilsonUSV is and has always been a small venture capital firm. We have twenty employees and we like the casual comfortable vibe that creates for us and the founders and management teams we work with. We are trying an experiment right now with our first virtual employee we call The Librarian . This is The […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Grace CarneyPlacing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce partnerships with media companies in exchange for […] Read more (opens In Transit in a new tab)
