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Hacking Education 2.0
Hannah Murdoch – Dec 18, 2020
More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group’s collective optimism about the role technology would [...] Read more
Funding Friday: On Pause
Fred Wilson – Dec 18, 2020
As we get to that time of the year when we look back and take measure of 2020, it will be one for the ages, and not in a good way. I saw this photo book project on Kickstarter today [...] Read more
Consumer Trends 2021
Fred Wilson – Dec 17, 2020
Dan Frommer , who many of you likely know from his writing at Recode, Quartz, Business Insider and other places on the web, has teamed up with my friends at Coefficient Capital to create a 120 page report called Consumer [...] Read more
Stacks 2.0
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2020
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum [...] Read more
Electrifying Heating And Cooling
Fred Wilson – Dec 16, 2020
It’s winter in NYC now and I am reminded of all the apartments the Gotham Gal and I lived in during our 20s and 30s in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The typical heating system was hot water or steam-powered radiators that [...] Read more
The Rise Of Everywhere
Fred Wilson – Dec 15, 2020
This is a theme I have come back to many times over the last decade but in the wake of all of the headlines about high profile founders, VCs, and companies leaving the bay area, I thought I would return [...] Read more
Innovation In Capital Markets
Fred Wilson – Dec 14, 2020
A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. I recall someone in the audience suggesting that the NYSE and Nasdaq could rebuild their markets [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Looking Glass Holographic Display
Fred Wilson – Dec 4, 2020
I saw this project as I was browsing Kickstarter this morning and I watched the video and thought “I need to get one of those.” If you would like to display a favorite photograph in holograph form you can back [...] Read more
Digital Dollars
Fred Wilson – Dec 3, 2020
I have written about stablecoins a bunch here at AVC. I believe cryptocurrencies that are not highly volatile are important for use cases like e-commerce. I explained why here . So we need crypto assets that are price stabilized and [...] Read more