A historical collection of our writing.
Today the House may be voting on an act that would have the effect of taking away access to healthcare for many Americans. If it passes that will happen through a variety of mechanisms which make care too expensive for people to afford. For over 100 years one way that women have had access to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the last two installments of Uncertainty Wednesday we looked at the concept of independence and concluded that it was actually quite a strong assumption. Now as one of the comments pointed out, independence is normally introduced in the context of a repeated coin flipping, where it is generally […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe Venture Capital business is full of great firms that were founded by entrepreneurs/operators who became investors mid/late career. From Gene Kleiner and Tom Perkins in the early 70s to Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at the end of the 00s, this is the iconic model of the venture capital firm […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Last Friday morning I appeared on a panel about the future of work. This is of course a topic I have covered extensively here on Continuations and is a central subject of my draft book World After Capital. One of the key recurring themes that I hear in this context is some version of “We […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At Union Square Ventures, network effects have been central to our investment thesis for a decade. From an investor perspective network effects are one of the few, possibly the only, source of sustainable competitive advantage in a world where almost everything else can be copied quickly. But we […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A long time ago when I worked as a management consultant, I did a study for Lafarge which has a huge cement business. The study involved real sleuthing as we were trying to determine the operational capacity of cement plants owned by others and under construction all around Europe. At times I felt […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
