Writing

Lately I have noticed an increase in entrepreneurs coming into USV (or videoing into USV) and talking to us about their business without the use of a deck. I don’t know what to make of that to be honest. But [...]  Read more

We landed in Vietnam yesterday and immediately got a text from TMobile that they don’t offer data roaming in Vietnam. They do offer basic voice and SMS. So we bought two 10GB data only SIM cards in the airport for [...]  Read more

I was on the board of NYU for almost a decade until recently stepping down. I learned a ton about NYU during that time and one of the things I learned was that NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is [...]  Read more

This is a conversation between two friends of mine; Chris Dixon , partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Fred Ehrsam , co-founder of Coinbase. It is excellent. I highly recommend it, particularly for those that want to make sense of crypto [...]  Read more

We have been spending a lot of time in Board meetings lately talking about GDPR . GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and is an EU regulation that, as written, will impact most Internet companies regardless of where they [...]  Read more

I’ve got mixed feelings about Twitter’s experiment with allowing longer tweets (280 characters vs 140). Like many users expressed on Twitter (of course) yesterday, I’m quite fond of the 140 character limit. I don’t like the constraint when I compose [...]  Read more

I enjoy rich media art and I’ve always wanted to figure out how to display it in an easy way. We have some rich media art displays in the USV office. We have an Electric Objects and a Meural . [...]  Read more

Brad Feld has a great post about the emotional toll of the collapse of the internet bubble . Near the end, he writes: When I reflect on my relationship with Seth, Jason, and Ryan much of the intense loyalty between [...]  Read more