### Oct 20, 2017

USV added a new partner today. Her name is Rebecca Kaden and she introduced herself to our world on the USV blog just now. Rebecca joins a team of fifteen people; our network team, our analysts, and our fantastic administrative [...]

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Oct 18, 2017

At our portfolio company CEO Summit this spring, the 60 or so leaders in attendance asked us if we could figure out a way to aggregate some insights across our entire portfolio and share the data with them. We said [...]

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Oct 14, 2017

Coindesk did me a disservice with this blog post: USV's Fred Wilson Predicts 'Big' Cryptocurrency Crash https://t.co/P8085HlhW1 pic.twitter.com/8rVaudYnlA — CoinDesk (@coindesk) September 26, 2017 It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. But [...]

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Oct 13, 2017

Luis von Ahn is a terrific entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the founder of our portfolio company Duolingo. In this podcast he talks about all sorts of interesting topics.

[Read more](https://avc.com/2017/10/audio-of-the-week-luis-von-ahn-founder-and-ceo-of-duolingo/)

[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Oct 10, 2017

A number of our portfolio companies use scoring systems to prioritize projects on their roadmaps. I like this one called RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). There are similar versions of this out there. The important thing about these systems is [...]

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Oct 9, 2017

Lately I have noticed an increase in entrepreneurs coming into USV (or videoing into USV) and talking to us about their business without the use of a deck. I don't know what to make of that to be honest. But [...]

[Read more](http://avc.com/2017/10/the-conversational-pitch/)