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Carta
Fred Wilson – Nov 9, 2017
Our portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post , the opportunity [...] Read more
Quantitative Investing in Shampoo
Fred Wilson – Nov 8, 2017
My partner Andy wrote a blog post on USV.com with this title today. I like the title so much that I want to feature the post on AVC today too. I have been a skeptic about data-driven venture capital investing for [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Mean under Fat Tails
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2017
In today’s Uncertainty Wednesday we are putting some of the ideas from the last few weeks together: we are looking at the behavior of the sample mean of a fat tailed distribution. To do this we will again use a [...] Read more
Quantitative Investing in Shampoo
Andy Weissman – Nov 7, 2017
Can a machine help you invest in shampoo? Coffee? Another consumer product? Last week, the USV portfolio company CircleUp announced the closing and launch of CircleUp Growth Partners - a $125 million fund that will use a quantitative machine learning [...] Read more
Onename to Blockstack
Fred Wilson – Nov 6, 2017
Our portfolio company Blockstack , which was the subject of a video I posted here last week , started out as Onename . Onename is a distributed identity system, kind of like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain. I wrote [...] Read more
Forking vs. Voting in Blockchains
Albert Wenger – Nov 6, 2017
There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols through forking and copying. The post does not mention the alternative possibility of binding voting as a mechanism for the evolution of [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: More AirCraft
Fred Wilson – Nov 4, 2017
I’m excited about AirCraft, which I blogged about yesterday . Here’s a short teaser that Dronebase put up on YouTube yesterday: Read more
Feature Friday: AirCraft By Dronebase
Fred Wilson – Nov 3, 2017
I hesitate to call this a feature, even though it is, as AirCraft is a way bigger deal than a new feature. Our portfolio company Dronebase operates the largest drone pilot network in the world. Tens of thousands of pilots [...] Read more
Token Summits in SF and NYC
Fred Wilson – Nov 2, 2017
The Token Summit, run by AVC regulars William Mouyagar and Nick Tomaino , announced two more events in the coming months, Dec 5th 2017 in San Francisco and May 17 2018 in New York. The first Token Summit was held in NYC at NYU last [...] Read more