A historical collection of our writing.
A couple of years ago Shapeways was a tiny company based in the Netherlands with a big idea: providing 3D printing as an on demand service and marketplace. Following an investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures the company relocated to New York City (and recently raised more money […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This is the second post in my Scylla and Charybdis series on why startups are quite so hard. Up today: hiring. Here you can go wrong by hiring too fast but also by hiring too slow. The first problem of hiring too fast is fairly obvious. You wind up spending money too quickly. For most […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As previously promised, this will be the last Tech Tuesday post on Data Structures for a while and starting next week we will return to other aspects of programming. Much of what we have seen in the previous data structure posts are structures that are built into the respective programming […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday I posted about how the current Do Not Track debate is muddling the underlying issues. I got a great reply from Mike Yang on Twitter that rightly pointed out at P3P had been a mess in part because Microsoft jumped the gun on it. That got me to think about an even broader context […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The Do Not Track discussions that are currently going on are fascinating because they highlight the huge gap between how the internet actually works and how people are talking about policy. Politicians are giving consumers a false sense that there is an easy “on/off” switch for tracking. And […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We are excited to announce a Behance talent audition to identify five designers that will be commissioned to update the look and feel of USV’s identity. You can find a detailed design brief at Behance. We have decided on a network-based approach, leveraging our portfolio company Behance’s design […] Read more
