A historical collection of our writing.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung – Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in for a bunch of years. It is run by a small, great group of people, […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
This summer I have been blogging less. That’s largely because I have been reading more and also been spending more time thinking about some of my favorite topics. All of this has me more convinced than ever that we need to invest heavily in elucidating the interconnections of knowledge. Way too […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The point of this story is that it shows me how broken the medical system is. Even in the best case, there is such a lack of communication, coordination and information sharing. Data is everywhere and nowhere. Decisions are slower and harder to make than they should be. Expensive diagnostics are […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At the same time, we’ve wondered what lessons and […] Read more
Today’s release of the latest version of Foursquare has me super excited. It puts together all of the data and capabilities the team there has built over the last five years to provide the best local recommendations: based on lots of detailed data and knowing your tastes. Dennis’s vision for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In venture capital we come across startups all the time that are building something that has been tried in the past and failed. It would be very easy to dismiss these opportunities based on a naive “pattern matching” approach to investing. Instead at USV we always ask ourselves “what is different […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
