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Audio Of The Week: Andy Weissman on Twenty Minute VC
Fred Wilson – Sep 16, 2017
In this podcast, my partner Andy talks a lot about USV’s investment process. It’s a good interview. Read more
Fun Friday: Crypto Crystal Ball
Fred Wilson – Sep 15, 2017
Chris Burniske posted this Twitter poll a few days ago: Given the tense #crypto market environment right now, are you expecting: — Chris Burniske (@cburniske) September 14, 2017 I voted for option one. I think the crypto markets will be [...] Read more
Kickstarter Japan
Fred Wilson – Sep 14, 2017
Yesterday was a big day for our portfolio company Kickstarter . They launched in Japan , a market that has been dying for Kickstarter to come to for years. Read more
Cornell Tech
Fred Wilson – Sep 13, 2017
I took a ferry up the East River yesterday evening to attend a dinner celebrating the official opening of Cornell Tech which happens this morning. Situated on Roosevelt Island, underneath the Queensboro Bridge, Cornell Tech is a graduate school of [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Weather (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Sep 13, 2017
So far in Uncertainty Wednesday we have mostly built up concepts and ideas, with only one extended example. Given the two massive hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the weather received a lot of attention, including the question to what extent the [...] Read more
AR “Browsers” On The Phone
Fred Wilson – Sep 12, 2017
Jacqueline gave us an update yesterday on the latest with ARKit and Google’s ARCore . These AR “browsers” are coming soon to Apple and Google phones. We think this is a big deal because for the first time AR developers will [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: William and Ted
Fred Wilson – Sep 9, 2017
Our portfolio company Kik is doing a token offering for its Kin crypto token this coming week. AVC regular William Mougayar interviewed Kik founder/CEO Ted Livingston a few weeks ago and their talk is the video of the week this [...] Read more
Cool AR things
Jacqueline Garavente – Sep 8, 2017
According to the recent wave of announcements, there will likely be over 1 Billion Augmented Reality enabled smartphones in the market over the next year. Holy #$@! I recently mused in a post that, following Apple’s introduction of ARKit, Google would [...] Read more
ICOs and the Promise and Perils of a Global Capital Market for Everyone
Albert Wenger – Sep 8, 2017
I have already written a bunch about ICOs here on Continuations, including earlier this week about the Chinese ban. Regulators are approaching this, not surprisingly, by focusing on their own country. While that’s understandable, it undermines one of the most [...] Read more