A historical collection of our writing.
Tonight I am giving a brief talk at a Publishing Point event organized by Susan and Jenny. Here are some notes that I pulled together in preparation, written up as a blog post. At USV one of our big investment thesis is that the internet is resulting in massive unbundling of existing business […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A while back I had stopped worrying about bee Colony Collapse Disorder because it had been out of the news for a while. From this morning’s New York Times it seems like I was wrong. Apparently if anything the rate of bee colonies collapsing has accelerated. This could turn into a very serious […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have started reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (review coming when I am done with it). As an early example of a system that gets better under stress he mentions city states (presumably as they existed in ancient Greece). At USV we have been thinking about jurisdictional competition as a way to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
While Moonwalking with Einstein isn’t a new book – it was published in 2011 – I only just got around to reading it. The book’s subtitle is “The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” and it uses modern day memory competitions as the hook for examining the history, cultural significance and to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about choosing technology as a startup. Today we are talking about what to do once you are up and running. Let me start by categorically stating what you should never, ever do: rewrite everything from scratch. There is a terrific piece on why this is a bad idea […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI recently had lunch with Mark Leslie, a successful entrepreneur and CEO, who now teaches at Stanford and works with startups, often as a board member. He told me about a paper he and a colleague published in Harvard Business Review called The Sales Learning Curve. I read the paper and it […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
