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Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
Albert Wenger – Jul 28, 2016
HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And anybody with a web browser can access that content (subject to governments and ISPs imposing limitations). [...] Read more
Geoengineering
Albert Wenger – Jul 25, 2016
The topic of climate change combines many of my scientific and philosophical interests. In my draft book World After Capital I describe how knowledge is central to human affairs in that it allows us to solve problems. Many of the [...] Read more
What Did You Do? What Will I Have Done?
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2016
You may have noticed that my posting here on Continuations has been sporadic at best these past few weeks. The reason is simple. I have felt downbeat by what’s been happening in the world and the United States. The rolling [...] Read more
Trashing Tumblr
Fred Wilson – Jul 20, 2016
So Scott Galloway thinks Tumblr was nothing more than a "porn site." I think that is a ridiculous comment coming from someone who says ridiculous things. Tumblr was, and still is, a vibrant social media platform. Just talk to the [...] Read more
Sift Science Series C: Powering Trust Online
Albert Wenger – Jul 19, 2016
Today our portfolio company Sift Science announced not only their $30 million Series C, led by Insight Venture Partners, but also several new product offerings. This is exciting because it reveals the team’s larger vision of “Powering Trust Online” and [...] Read more
USV Opportunity Fund, circa 2016
Andy Weissman – Jul 18, 2016
Over five years ago USV launched its first “Opportunity Fund” - a pool of capital meant as a complement to the core activities of our early stage funds. A few years thereafter, in 2014, we raised a second Opportunity Fund. [...] Read more
Payjoy
John Buttrick – Jul 12, 2016
Sometime in the late 90s I picked up my first mobile phone, a Motorola StarTAC. The sound quality wasn’t great but it was a radical change to no longer be tethered to a wireline. Next up was the Blackberry, which [...] Read more
Black Lives Matter: Protest and Democracy
Albert Wenger – Jul 11, 2016
I have been meaning to write about my recent experience with Google App Engine and also about the Pokemon Go phenomenon. And I will eventually do so, but given the events in the US this past week these topics seem [...] Read more
Needed: Declaration of In-TER-dependence
Albert Wenger – Jul 4, 2016
As an immigrant to America, I have enjoyed many 4th of July celebrations over the years. Given the Brexit vote, I woke up today wondering though what it means for a nation to be independent in the world we live [...] Read more