Messing with a competitor's ability to get funding is not a good look for Uber, says the venture capitalist who invested in the e-hailing app Hailo. The venture capitalist behind Lyft totally agrees!

Fred Wilson is a star venture capitalist, one of those check-cutting white men whose blog posts are read like tea leaves by his peers (Think Marc Andreessen with less skull and more brain). But complaining about wasteful startups wasting the excessive cash you dumped on them is a dumb look.

Silicon Valley loves reviving the dead. Whether it's propping up publishing or resuscitating mobile app incubators, investors are hellbent pumping money into yesteryear's financial fiascos. And no where is that Culture of Resurrection quite as apparent as it is in the on-demand delivery market.

Investor Fred Wilson on how the underdog becomes the overlord: "The same could be said of Google, Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, Uber, and all of the dominant networks that are emerging around us. From laughable toys to dominant monopolies in less than a decade."

The story of how a young programmer named Aaron Swartz convinced celebrated academic Lawrence Lessig that no political progress could be made without first reforming campaign finance is now part of Silicon Valley lore. In May, Lessig launched a radical initiative to address the issue: MAYDAY, a SuperPAC that secured funding from two Silicon Valley billionaires in order to curtail the influence of big money.

There's still enough room in the bubble for celebs: "Edward Norton (yes, that Edward Norton)" got $25 million for his crowdfunding platform and "Yes, rapper and recording artist Nas" contributed to General Assembly's diversity in engineering fund.

Benedict Evans, a popular London-based tech and media analyst (and Fred Wilson's "favorite read on the Internet") wrote a post this morning about how "significant reduction in consumer interest" for Foursquare in the US and the UK is being offset by "strong growth" in Indonesia and Turkey.

In the past, Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures backed startups with decent ties to the mainstream: Foursquare, Tumblr, Soundcloud. Not anymore: welcome to the crazy, volatile, nerd gold rush, Fred.

Union Square Ventures chief Fred Wilson has some big notches on his bedpost: Tumblr, Twitter, and Zynga (cough). But if you look at USV's portfolio page, you'll see a lot of chaff. Bad ideas that will probably go nowhere. This is the case with most VC firms. But unlike most investors, Wilson actually tries to chase down laughable ideas. Suddenly it all makes sense.