Writing

One of the least discussed aspects of investing in startups is the value of the time commitment one makes to a company they invest in. The money part is pretty simple; you invest capital into a business and get an [...]  Read more

One of the crypto projects I am most excited about is Filecoin , which comes from USV portfolio company Protocol Labs , which also produced the popular hypermedia protocol IPFS . In this talk, from the Blockstack Berlin conference last [...]  Read more

Ryan Caldbeck is on fire on Twitter right now.  Ryan is the CEO of our portfolio company CircleUp , and he just joined Twitter for the first time earlier this year and is, I may say, feeling very comfortable in [...]  Read more

For much of yesterday if you came to AVC, you were greeted with this message: Long time AVC readers have seen this before and it is a sign that something is awry on the shared server that I run WordPress [...]  Read more

A friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?” I answered “Dapps.” If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on [...]  Read more

I woke up this morning thinking about disappointment. My daughter and I went to the final Knicks home game of the season last night, a loss to the Cavs. One of 53 we have endured this season. The season had [...]  Read more

I was going through my email this morning and opening pitch decks, skimming them, and responding to indicate if they are a fit with our thesis and of interest to me and my colleagues at USV. Everyone who works in [...]  Read more