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Musings of a VC in NYC
I'm a bit late with this news about our portfolio company Duck Duck
Go but I am super excited about it so I'm posting it anyway. I'll
let a tweet tell the story: We received over 1,000,000 direct
searches yesterday...
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 4:18 am
Yesterday my partner Albert and I sat down with the people behind
Americans Elect. For those that don't know, Americans Elect is an
online third party movement. In their words, "Pick A President, Not
A Party." Here's how it works...
Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 5:03 am
It's Valentines Day. Time to step back from working 24/7 and make
sure your loved ones are still in love with you. That's a joke, but
there's some truth in there too. I spent some time with a
founder/CEO yesterday...
Date Published: Feb 14, 2012 - 7:36 am
Today's guest blogger needs no introduction. Joel Spolsky one of
the best bloggers out there. He also runs one of our portfolio
companies, Stack. And his approach to management is unorthodox at
times but amazingly effective. I asked him to...
Date Published: Feb 13, 2012 - 4:42 am
It was a big week for our portfolio company Kickstarter. In the
span of 24 hours, not one but two projects passed dollarsignr1mm in
funding. Co-founder Yancey Strickler wrote a great blog post laying
out the timeline of those 24...
Date Published: Feb 12, 2012 - 6:46 am
It's interesting to see a network, Instagram, starting to replace
the iPhone's native camera application in many users' daily usage
of their phones. I see this in my kids' behavior all the time. When
they want to take a photo,...
Date Published: Feb 11, 2012 - 8:01 am
The other day my friend Ben Kweller released his new record, Go Fly
A Kite. I wanted to give Ben a little help getting the word out. So
I used a new feature on Tumblr to create this: Yesterday our...
Date Published: Feb 10, 2012 - 4:10 am
I have never ever been so behind on email as I am right now. I
believe I am seeing about one third of all email that is sent to
me. If you have sent me an email that I haven't...
Date Published: Feb 09, 2012 - 4:40 am
Yesterday was payments day at USV. Two pretty big things that our
firm has been involved in for a while now were coincidentally
announced on the same day. First, our newest portfolio company
Dwolla announced the closing of a round...
Date Published: Feb 08, 2012 - 4:27 am
I've always seen the work that my colleauges and I do as more than
venture capital investing. That is our main job and we need to do
it very well. But we also need to work to make sure the...
Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 8:35 am