Writing

One of the areas we have been investing a lot in at USV is women’s healthcare (Clue , Modern Fertility , Nurx ). Another interesting company in women’s healthcare, that USV is not an investor in (at least not yet), [...]  Read more

NY State Senator Michael Gianaris is leading the efforts to stop Amazon from opening up a large presence in the borough of Queens in NYC. I get that this makes for good politics at some level. Standing up for the [...]  Read more

I have written a bit about this topic in recent years, at the end of 2017 , and again when the 2018 numbers started showing up . What has happened over the last five years in venture capital is the [...]  Read more

Thanks for all of the feedback on yesterday’s post . There have been about 250 comments to date and a similar number of email replies. Not surprisingly the feedback from the email replies was overwhelmingly supportive of removing the comments. [...]  Read more

I realize that publications need to have a business model to stay afloat. And the past month has seen a number of online publications (and offline publications) layoff a large number of employees. So it isn’t even clear that all [...]  Read more

Last fall, the folks at Yext offered to let me have some stage time at their Onward Conference to talk about the K12 CS Education work that I’ve been doing for the last ten years. I didn’t realize that the [...]  Read more

I was talking with my friend Jerry today and he said “everything is possible.” I told him I don’t think I am going to be able to dunk on a regulation height rim. But I subscribe to Jerry’s mantra of [...]  Read more

I am often asked for advice on productivity. People want to know how I get things done. The truth is I am not well organized, I don’t use any productivity tools. I work hard but I don’t work all of [...]  Read more