A historical collection of our writing.
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
One way to build something big is to build something big. Like a pyramid. Or a multifaceted bank. Or a university. Another way is to build something that is architected to be full of small pieces, small things, small units. Khan Academy is one of these “build small things” that became big services. […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to create important resources for humanity, such as a free, widely available, […] Read more
Christina CacioppoWe’ve blogged about many aspects of USV, including our investment thesis and our preferences on deal terms, but we’ve rarely shared our internal research on new markets and industries. On reflection, we’ve decided it would be better to make that work public. Starting today, we’ll share more of our […] Read more
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as: the increasingly complex ways in which young people’s […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
The Internet has been an amazing platform for creating and distributing educational content. Khan Academy has become the canonical example cited here but terrific free content is emerging from many different sources such as the Open Courseware initiative and even Youtube. Free content was a major […] Read more
