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Nick Grossman – Aug 10, 2014
The point of this story is that it shows me how broken the medical system is. Even in the best case, there is such a lack of communication, coordination and information sharing. Data is everywhere and nowhere. Decisions are slower [...] Read more
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Andy Weissman – Aug 6, 2014
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At [...] Read more
Foursquare: Personalized Recommendations Unleashed
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2014
Today’s release of the latest version of Foursquare has me super excited. It puts together all of the data and capabilities the team there has built over the last five years to provide the best local recommendations: based on lots [...] Read more
It is OK to Worry about Work (& Doesn’t Make you a Luddite or Socialist)
Albert Wenger – Aug 4, 2014
In venture capital we come across startups all the time that are building something that has been tried in the past and failed. It would be very easy to dismiss these opportunities based on a naive “pattern matching” approach to [...] Read more
The Dentist Office Software Story
Fred Wilson – Jul 30, 2014
I've been telling this fictional story about Dentist Office Software for years to describe why we are so focused on our "networks" investment strategy. Yesterday I told it at a HackNY event we did at the USV office and my [...] Read more
The Unbundling of Scale
Albert Wenger – Jul 30, 2014
During the industrial age, economies of scale were a major source of competitive advantage. Many production processes exhibited decreasing unit costs over a very large range of output. Steel was a classic example which resulted in a few very large [...] Read more
Strong AI: Employment Impact Doesn’t Depend on “How” Computers Think
Albert Wenger – Jul 28, 2014
There was a fun Twitter convo about strong AI between Patrick Collison and Marc Andreessen. I also love speculating about this topic but before I engage in that I want to point out that from an employment perspective this is [...] Read more
Is it 1880 or 1914?
Albert Wenger – Jul 23, 2014
I haven’t been posting much the last couple of weeks. There are a variety of reasons for that including spending extra time reading and learning new things but the main reason is that I am trying to understand better where [...] Read more
Looking for a Personal Assistant
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2014
Susan and I are looking for a personal assistant to help with many different organizational tasks. If you know someone who might be interested, please point them to our Craigslist ad. We built a simple video application process using Ziggeo [...] Read more