Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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