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CryptoKitties
Fred Wilson – Mar 21, 2018
AVC readers may have noticed that I didn’t blog here yesterday. That’s because I blogged on USV.com instead, about our most recent investment. You can read that post here . Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Interlude
Albert Wenger – Mar 21, 2018
Before covering p-values and why they are so problematic, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a bit of a recap of Uncertainty Wednesday. I have been writing this series for almost two years now, beginning summer [...] Read more
The AT&T/Time Warner Trial
Fred Wilson – Mar 19, 2018
Trump’s Justice Department goes to court this week to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner on “anti-competition concerns.” Like most of the things that come out of this administration, this is a joke. HBO has 54 million subscribers [...] Read more
Back from the Mountains
Albert Wenger – Mar 19, 2018
I was mostly offline last week skiing in the Alps. I love skiing for many reasons: I find it a great way to experience flow state and it combines being outdoors with vigorous exercise (especially when skinning or bootpacking up [...] Read more
Your Data Is My Data
Fred Wilson – Mar 18, 2018
This piece in Recode explains that Cambridge Analytica built an app that 270,000 people used to amass profiles on 50 million people. That’s not very surprising because we are talking about networks here. This is a network graph that my [...] Read more
Slideshow Of The Week: Why Tokens Are Fundamental
Fred Wilson – Mar 17, 2018
This weekend I am going with a slideshow instead of a video or audio embed. Some of my colleagues at USV have been spending a lot of time with regulators, elected officials, and lawyers helping all of these people understand [...] Read more
Slideshow Of The Week: Why Tokens Are Fundamental
Fred Wilson – Mar 17, 2018
This weekend I am going with a slideshow instead of a video or audio embed. Some of my colleagues at USV have been spending a lot of time with regulators, elected officials, and lawyers helping all of these people understand [...] Read more
The Coinbase Tax Center
Fred Wilson – Mar 15, 2018
Our portfolio company Coinbase launched some much needed tax tools this week . I used them today to calculate our gains in 2017 and send the reports to my accountants. The Coinbase tax center is here . The tools look [...] Read more
The VC/Company Relationship
Fred Wilson – Mar 14, 2018
When I got into the VC business in the early 80s, the VC/Company relationship was pretty different than it is now. Capital was hard to come by, VCs commanded terms that would be laughed at today, and once they had [...] Read more