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An Addition To The AVC Comment Policy
Fred Wilson – Jan 31, 2018
Yesterday I went to see what the community was talking about and found this at the top of the comment threads: I thought to myself “oh shit, the token scammers have arrived” and immediately deleted those comments and left a [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Spurious Correlation (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2018
In the last Uncertainty Wednesday post on Sample Variance, I wrote that “Inference from data without explanations is how people go deeply wrong about reality.” It occurred to me that the best way to illustrate this is by writing about [...] Read more
USV Manager Bootcamp
Fred Wilson – Jan 30, 2018
Our USV Portfolio Network Team built a new offering last year called the USV Manager Bootcamp . Read more
A Low-Volume, High-Conviction, High-Support Investor
Fred Wilson – Jan 29, 2018
My friend Mark Mullen and his partner Jim Andelman are announcing a new VC firm in Southern California today . They call themselves Bonfire Ventures . I love how they describe themselves as “a low-volume, high-conviction, high-support investor.” That is [...] Read more
World After Capital: Work In Progress & Preface
Albert Wenger – Jan 29, 2018
NOTE: One of my goals for 2018 is to bring my book World After Capital to the point where I feel it is good enough to publish in paper form. I have come to realize that if I just keep [...] Read more
The Co-Founder Relationship
Fred Wilson – Jan 28, 2018
If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup [...] Read more
The Co-Founder Relationship
Fred Wilson – Jan 28, 2018
If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: A16Z’s Alex Rampell
Fred Wilson – Jan 27, 2018
I found this wide ranging interview quite interesting. Alex has been an entrepreneur and is now an investor. He is operating at the intersection of traditional fintech and crypto, which is a place USV also often occupies. Read more
Audio Of The Week: A16Z’s Alex Rampell
Fred Wilson – Jan 27, 2018
I found this wide ranging interview quite interesting. Alex has been an entrepreneur and is now an investor. He is operating at the intersection of traditional fintech and crypto, which is a place USV also often occupies. USV TEAM POSTS: [...] Read more