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A VC  12 hours ago:

Decoupling Advisory From Custody -

I had coffee with a friend last week. He's been working on wall street for most of his career. Over the past few years he has built a fast growing business inside a large asset management firm that allows the.
A VC  less than a day ago:

Withings Scale -

As I've gotten into my 50s, something has occurred that has never been an issue for me, I've put on some weight.
A VC  3 days ago:

What Is Strategy? -

My post on Product>Strategy>Business Model got a lot of comments and other reactions out there on the social web and from that I realized that many confuse strategy and tactics.
A VC  3 days ago:

Parenting -

About a month ago, our oldest child Jessica inquired as to the whereabouts of the family videos we took of our kids when they were younger.
A VC  4 days ago:

Video Of The Week: Talking With Spencer Ante At SourceDigital13 -

Earlier this week at our portfolio company Flurry's conference, SourceDigital13, I sat down with Spencer Ante and talked about mobile and some other stuff.
A VC  6 days ago:

Fun Friday: Foursquare Time Machine -

Those of you who use Foursquare to database your life can have some fun today. Foursquare launched a cool interactive visualization tool called Time Machine yesterday.
A VC  Jun 13 13 :

Funding Brooklyn Castle -

You may have heard about the documentary called Brooklyn Castle in which a team of public middle school kids from NYC win the national high school chess championship.
A VC  Jun 12 13 :

AR Drone - The Maiden Voyage -

I wrote about drones a while back and as part of my exploration of them, I bought an AR Drone on Amazon.
A VC  Jun 11 13 :

Random Inbound Email -

I was talking to a friend yesterday about how I process random inbound email and I thought I ought to share this with everyone.
A VC  Jun 10 13 :

1984 -

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
A VC  Jun 09 13 :

Blip Enhance For The Internet -

I keep thinking back to this comment left on AVC by Mike Nolan a few weeks ago: How about Blip Enhance – a small piece of code that continuously sends false privacy data to Google.
A VC  Jun 08 13 :

Video Of The Week: Crowd Lending at LebWeb -

It's not often that there is a panel discussion where all the entrepreneurs on the panel are USV portfolio companies.
A VC  Jun 07 13 :

Feature Friday: Standing Up For Your Users -

I saw this yesterday and it made me so happy: The list of technology companies allegedly participating in a vast US government surveillance program known as PRISM, which was just reported by the Washington Post and Guardian, is notable for.
A VC  Jun 06 13 :

DIY Data Science In Action -

I wrote a post about DIY Data Science back in March. In that post I said that hacking on public data sets and posting about it has the potential to be a big deal in the coming years.
A VC  Jun 05 13 :

Mobile Is Eating The World -

Benedict Evans is quickly becoming my favorite Internet analyst. I follow his blog and twitter religiously.
A VC  Jun 04 13 :

The Three Letter Domain -

As we were debating in our monday meeting yesterday about our brand, USV vs Union Square Ventures, I made the point that our URL is our brand and we use usv.
A VC  Jun 03 13 :

MBA Mondays: Sales Leads On A Small Budget -

So today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about something useful - Generating sales leads on a small budget.
A VC  Jun 02 13 :

Product > Strategy > Business Model -

One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy.
A VC  Jun 01 13 :

Video Of The Week: John Doerr at Pando Monthly -

I like what Sarah Lacy is doing with these monthly talks called Pando Monthly. I am going to do one on June 13th.
A VC  May 31 13 :

Fun Friday: Favorite Sport -

I was at my friend Vanessa's birthday party last night and another friend Cliff was saying to me that baseball is falling fast in popularity amoung the younger people in america.