A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalHi! I’m Bethany Marzewski, and I’m thrilled to be taking over Brittany’s position as the new network General Manager at Union Square Ventures. In this role, I’ll work with the great teams at USV’s 60+ portfolio companies to expand the programming and infrastructure that we hope empowers all of our […] Read more
There is a ton of confusion out there about Apple’s refusal to comply with a court order. The most level headed account I have been able to find is by the Register and I highly recommend reading it. The question I am more interested in is the following: what *should* the security design be for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have not been blogging much because I have been working on my book, but many people have asked me about the markets. So here are my thoughts. Much of the recovery in the labor market since 2008 had been driven by jobs in the oil and gas industry. These were high paying jobs that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Brad BurnhamOur portfolio company Veniam announced today that they had closed a significant new round of funding led by Verizon Ventures. The funding will allow Veniam to deliver on the promise of “smart cities” by connecting thousands of vehicles in public and private fleets to create city-scale mesh […] Read more
I learned how to program on this Apple II over 30 years ago. Over that time period – as a first approximation – programming has stayed the same. Yes, I have learned new tools and new programming languages, but programming still amounts to typing a bunch of text into an editor in a syntax that’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn a venture fund, the general partners will make something like twenty or twenty five investments. There are outliers for sure. A few venture funds will make less investments than that. And there are seed funds that will make significantly more investments than that. But that’s not the point of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
