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The Reordering of Medicine
Andy Weissman – Jun 14, 2016
The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is starting to change fundamentally. This is less about the unbundling of medicine (which may also be happening) but instead the [...] Read more
The Reordering of Medicine
Andy Weissman – Jun 14, 2016
When you wake up in the morning You'll have a brand new feeling And you'll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is [...] Read more
Mediachain
Andy Weissman – Jun 1, 2016
"This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting" This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on April 17th. It quickly made it to the front page of Reddit, ultimately garnering over [...] Read more
Bots, Messaging and SmarterChild
Andy Weissman – Apr 17, 2016
If I gave you my love, I tell you what I'd do I'd expect a whole lot of love out of you - Al Green Smart people believe that messenger type interfaces and associated “bots” will become a primary way [...] Read more
Somewhere In The Middle
Andy Weissman – Dec 29, 2015
This dynamic - with incumbents making what appear to be aggressive, risky and expensive moves and at the same time new entrants chipping away at the margins and edges - is also being replicated in other industries. Read more
USV Thesis 2.0
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2015
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...] Read more
No Stack Startups
Andy Weissman – May 6, 2015
One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promote content; (3) distribution; (4) figure out the best user interface or experience for its [...] Read more
Changing Metaphors
Andy Weissman – Apr 10, 2015
"Photograph - all I've got is a photograph. But it's not enough" Def Leppard Wikipedia tells us that the word "photograph" derives from the Greek words phos and graphê, together meaning "drawing with light." I suppose that for a hundred [...] Read more
The Chaos Theory Of Startups
Andy Weissman – Feb 13, 2015
I was flying from NY to SF the other day and at one point the gentleman I was sitting next to asked me if I was flying towards or away from home. I told him NYC was my home and [...] Read more