Writing

I walked out of my house in LA this morning and was greeted with this sight: I thought “ugh” and debated picking it up and putting it where it belongs. I am all for progress and understand that there are [...]  Read more

Mark Suster wrote a post this weekend laying out some rules for being a good board member before the meeting, in the meeting, and outside of the meeting. It is a very good list. I particularly like his rules for [...]  Read more

I was talking to a friend this past week who is looking at an early stage company and trying to figure out how to value it. He pointed to a similar company that has a public market cap of $250mm. [...]  Read more

Trust is rising as a central issue in tech and the Internet. We spend a lot of time at USV thinking about trust and talking about trust. It is part of our current investment thesis . Rachel Botsman is a [...]  Read more

Savills World Research , a global property agent, has been ranking the world’s top tech cities based on a bunch of criteria for years. In this year’s rankings , NYC tops SF to become the number one tech city in [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company SoundCloud launched an important new feature today. Distribution . There are plenty of services a musician can use to get their music onto the major streaming music services. There has been CDBaby, TuneCore, DistroKid, and many more. [...]  Read more

One of my favorite moves that I have seen founders do in the early stages of their company (think pre-seed, seed, and possibly into the Srs A stages), is the weekly email. This can take a number of forms; a [...]  Read more

David Steinberg, founder and CEO of Zeta Global , the owner of Disqus, saw my blog post last week expressing a desire to make this blog easier to manage. He reached out, asking how Zeta/Disqus could help. I explained my [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal wanted to get a new laptop. Her late 2015 Macbook has started to fade on her. So yesterday we made a visit to the local Apple Store and checked out the options. We looked at the Macbooks, [...]  Read more