I have written many times here that it is important to me that I control the platform that I publish on. I use the open-source WordPress software for my content management system and run that on a hos
Crypto has gone through an eventful year. Decentralized exchanges and platforms that allow users to trade, loan, or borrow cryptocurrency have soared in volume. Developers are taking advantage of the
2020 was a terrible year for too many people. So much trauma, dislocation and illness. Everyone has their own stories, and everyone suffered (unevenly and unfairly) from the extraordinary shifts in ou
We are at the start of a cambrian explosion of creativity and problem solving, and after you've read this post you'll understand why and you'll be ready for it. The reason for this explosion is that t
What are the five essential questions B2B startups should ask themselves about sales? Published in APX Voices · 4 min read · Dec 1, 2020 -- Business vector created by pikisuperstar . Edited by Jasmin
Marketplace monetization depends on two factors — Transaction complexity and the asymmetry in value to the demand and supply sides Published in Breadcrumb.vc · 12 min read · Nov 9, 2020 -- Image credi
November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinkingdifferently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, forexample, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas
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From the moment you start your business, each decision you make will affect your future board composition. From selecting co-founders, to first key hires, to investors, to independent board members, i
Published in Level Up Coding · 4 min read · Jun 22, 2020 -- “Here’s what we can afford to pay you,” I said to Greg, one of the best Analog IC design engineers in our industry. Greg was making $400K/ye
How many people do you need to design a great product? 7 min read · Aug 7, 2018 -- Listen on Spotify or iTunes Jeff Bezos has a rule at Amazon, or perhaps more aptly a philosophy. If a team cannot be
Published in Mission.org · 6 min read · Mar 25, 2016 -- I’ve spent 20 years in my career building and leading product teams. But I have a contrarian approach when it comes to hiring product managers.
Rallying the troops when you feel exhausted and stressed is a recipe for self doubt. Here’s how to fight it. Published in Marker · 5 min read · Aug 7, 2020 -- Image: akinbostanci/E+/Getty Images W hen
When the internet was young, one of its most exciting aspects was that it helped people connect with like-minded individuals, developing communities of niche interests that drab suburbia and mass cult
5 questions that will help you find yours Published in Entrepreneur's Handbook · 3 min read · Nov 6, 2020 -- Meaningful work isn’t always pleasant. Shutterstock image First of all, let’s make a clear
A year and a half ago, I converted my office at USV from a classic office with a desk to a small conference room with a couch, a chair, and a display for videoconferencing. I call it my “zoom room.” I
Many of us are familiar with the history of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). When I first came across the methodology in 2013, I was wowed by stories of organisational alignment and focus from the l
Bitcoin ( BTC ) hit $15,000 on Nov. 5 as excitement over the United States election spilled over from macro markets. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView showed BTC/USD tackle the $15,000 b
May 2020’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2020 ( archives ). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog ; brought to you by my donors on
I continue my AI poetry generation experiments with Open AI’s 2020 GPT-3, which is 116× larger, and much more powerful, than the 2019 GPT-2 . GPT-3, however, is not merely a quantitative tweak yieldin
Microsoft has obtained an exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3, an artificial intelligence program that grasps the intricacies of human language and can generate realistic-sounding news articles, amon
In Silicon Valley, the entire ecosystem is aligned around one thing: the cultivation of unicorns — startups valued over $1 billion. Unicorns were once a rare breed, but in recent years, the stable of
When San Francisco–based Retool raised new funding this month, investors valued the maker of software development tools at just below $1 billion, or 100 times its annualized revenue of roughly $10 mil
Journal of Financial Economics Volume 135, Issue 1 , January 2020, Pages 120-143 Author links open overlay panel , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.04.015 Get rights and content Abstract We deve
Capital Markets & Asset Management Views 10/30/2020 As we begin to put money to work in our latest fund at MiddleGame Ventures (“MGV”), we have completed a series of deep dive reviews of the FinTech s
Posting on Hacker News is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get. I’ve been submitting since 2017 and never had more than one point. So I stopped trying. A month ago, I got ac
Thirteen years after co-founding Twitter, Ev Williams is still trying to reinvent online conversation. The billionaire Medium founder sees the present as another big moment—and he is ready to pounce.
When Southwest CEO Gary Kelly spoke to CNBC last week on its biggest-loss-ever quarter , there was a moment when Kelly wanted to say the writing was on the wall, but didn’t want to create panic. Watch
The lamb leg wants to kill me. The stress it will cause to my blood fats and my gut microbiome does not make up for its neutral effect on my glucose levels. I’m hungry, though, and it smells delicious