Drinking From The Crypto Firehose
It is my view and our view at USV that the crypto market is in what Carlota Perez calls the installation phase. We believe that we are still putting the pieces in place for a new technology architecture to take [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Ten Ways To Be Your Own Boss
I spoke to a group of women entrepreneurs a few weeks ago, and one asked me “why do you need to raise VC?” And the answer is “you don’t.” The vast majority of entrepreneurs out there don’t raise VC. Many [...] Read more
I Don’t Know
An entrepreneur asked me a great question last week: When is it OK to say I don’t know in a pitch meeting? I told her the following things: 1/ This varies from investor to investor. Some investors are looking for [...] Read more
Investment Pace
We were hanging out with friends last night and one of them asked me how many investments I have made this year. I replied “one so far.” He said, “you are not very active.” and I replied “I do one [...] Read more
Tech:NYC Turns Two
It seems like yesterday when a bunch of folks in the NYC tech sector decided that it was time to form an organization to represent the tech sector in NYC. But in fact, it was a little more than two [...] Read more
The Long Raise
I’ve been chairing a $40 million capital campaign for NYC’s CS4All effort to bring computer science education to every school and every student in the nation’s largest school district. We are just into year four of the ten-year CS4All effort [...] Read more
Cutting The Cord/Trashing The Dish
Last Sunday I wrote about the over the top video market and made some observations about it in light of the challenges we were having getting our satellite dish working again. In the week that passed, we had another no-show appointment [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
I received a bunch of emails last week suggesting I listen to this interview with Vitalik. I finally did and it was as good as advertised. So I am now suggesting that all of you give it a listen too. [...] Read more
Opportunity Zones
I was at dinner with my friend Stephen a month or so ago and he was bending my ear about a provision in last year’s tax bill that provides very significant tax incentives to invest in businesses or real estate [...] Read more