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I am a VC. I have been for 19 years. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but it...
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Posted: Sunday 13 May 2012
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I just read that a lot of the social news reader traffic publishers like Washington Post and The Guardian were getting from Facebook has dropped off dramatically. Next we will read that the traffic social video apps get from Facebook...
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Posted: Saturday 12 May 2012
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I was going through the board deck of our portfolio company Wattpad this morning. Wattpad is the leading writing/reading community on the web and mobile. Quantcast says over 7.5mm people visit their website each month. And Wattpad is one of...
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Posted: Thursday 10 May 2012
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So our President finally had the political courage to say publicly what I am sure he has privately believed for a long time. Kudos to him. I am not sure about the political wisdom of that disclosure. But it takes...
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Posted: Tuesday 8 May 2012
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Hacking Society is a discussion about how networks are transforming our economy and society, and what this means for the future of innovation, regulation, advocacy and politics. Two weeks ago, a small group of activists, thinkers, investors and entrepreneurs gathered...
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Posted: Monday 7 May 2012
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When I asked everyone where to go next last Monday, I got a ton of great suggestions. But at the top of the list, with 24 upvotes was this one by Robert Holtz: How about the job of recruiting talent?...
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Posted: Friday 4 May 2012
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One of my favorite features of the DuckDuckGo search engine (a USV portfolio company) is the instant answer. The instant answer is the box at the top that gives you what you were looking for. For Fred Wilson, it looks...
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Posted: Thursday 3 May 2012
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For anyone who is interested in Twitter, what is going on right now in the company, where they are headed, and why, this 30min interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is worth watching. I particularly like the last minute of...
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Posted: Wednesday 2 May 2012
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One of my favorite features in a web application is Demand It! from Eventful. The concept is simple but powerful (the best kind). Users demand events, movies, concerts, etc and if they can rally enough demands, they get the events...
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Posted: Monday 30 April 2012
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We just wrapped up a series on The Board Of Directors which was preceded by a series on The Management Team. I have come to like the series format for MBA Mondays because it allows me to plan out a...
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Posted: Sunday 29 April 2012
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Nearly three years ago, we talked about Consumer Centric Healthcare here at AVC. I keep coming back to this central idea: a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at...
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Posted: Friday 27 April 2012
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A crazy wild regular season has come to an end and the NY Knicks are the seventh seed in the eastern conference with a record of 36-30 and a record of 18-6 under Mike Woodson, who should shed the interim...
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Posted: Thursday 26 April 2012
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One of the most noticeable changes to the VC business over the past decade is the movement of investment allocation from capital and time intensive sectors like biotech and clean tech to capital efficient and fast moving sectors like internet...
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Posted: Tuesday 24 April 2012
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Today, from 10am to 4:30pm eastern, USV will be hosting an event called Hacking Society. This is one of our "sessions events" that we do from time to time. Hacking Society brings together a small group of thinkers and doers...
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Posted: Saturday 21 April 2012
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I was having lunch with a veteran of the entertainment and the video game business this past week. It was an interesting and wide ranging chat. One of the things we discussed that stuck in my mind was the thought...
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Posted: Friday 20 April 2012
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I logged into Turntable a week or so ago and everyone on stage had laptop stickers. I immediately started rummaging around the UI trying to figure out how to get some on my laptop. I figured it out pretty quickly...
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Posted: Tuesday 17 April 2012
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All of my kids have attended Elisabeth Irwin High School in NYC. The school was founded by Elisabeth Irwin 90 years ago. In commemoration of the 90th anniversary, they are doing a speaker series with noted thinkers, artists, authors, and...
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Posted: Monday 16 April 2012
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I am developing a standard format for these MBA Mondays series. I do five or six posts on a topic and then I solicit four or five guest posts to wrap it up. Today we begin the guest posts on...
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Posted: Sunday 15 April 2012
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Tomorrow night at 6pm eastern time I am going to teach the first MBA Mondays Live class. I announced it a month ago and the class quickly sold out. Part of the deal with these classes is that we are...
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Posted: Thursday 12 April 2012
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Everyone has something to say, something to contribute, everyone can make a difference. And I believe the Internet is making it easier for all of us to find that voice, use it, and make that difference. I am supporting evidence...
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Posted: Friday 6 April 2012
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I remember when I first met Joshua Schachter. It was in our first office back in early 2005 and he was still working at Morgan Stanley and running Delicious out of a server in his closet. I was immediately struck...
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