### Posts by Andy Weissman

#### Oct 21, 2016
Much ado is all I see And feel like it's surrounding me The crowd intrudes all day 'Til I'm finally swept away A few weeks ago I had the extreme privilege of going to a meeting in Washington, D.C. at [...]  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2016/10/people_21.html)

#### Oct 20, 2016
The blockchain and its evolving ecosystem and community (Joel and I called it “True Believers” the other day) are a wonderfully smart, intense, focused, weird, open, fun group of people. Almost across the board. Some are capitalists, some may not [...]  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2016/10/people_21.html)

#### Oct 4, 2016
This is the fourth presidential election during the existence of Union Square Ventures and the first one in which we as a firm feel compelled to endorse a candidate: Hillary Clinton. As investors in technology companies, we believe that technology [...]  [Read more](/content/writing/2016/10/hillary-clinton-for-president/index.html)

#### 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](/content/writing/2016/07/usv-opportunity-fund-circa-2016/index.html)

#### Jun 14, 2016
The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is starting to change fundamentally. This is less about the unbundling of medicine (which may also be happening) but instead the [...]  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2016/06/the-reordering-of-medicine.html)

#### Jun 14, 2016
When you wake up in the morning You'll have a brand new feeling And you'll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is [...]  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2016/06/the-reordering-of-medicine.html)

#### Jun 1, 2016
"This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting" This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on April 17th. It quickly made it to the front page of Reddit, ultimately garnering over [...]  [Read more](/content/writing/2016/06/mediachain/index.html)

#### Apr 17, 2016
If I gave you my love, I tell you what I'd do I'd expect a whole lot of love out of you - Al Green Smart people believe that messenger type interfaces and associated “bots” will become a primary way [...]  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2016/04/bots-messenging-and-smarterchild.html)

#### Dec 29, 2015
This dynamic - with incumbents making what appear to be aggressive, risky and expensive moves and at the same time new entrants chipping away at the margins and edges - is also being replicated in other industries.  [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2015/12/somewhere-in-middle.html)