Writing

Video of the week is back. This is the first video of the week post since we launched AVC 3.0. I don’t plan to do this every week, but I will do it some weeks. About a month ago, my [...]  Read more

Rocketbook is a serial Kickstarter creator, having done five successful projects already. They make notebooks and note pads that you can write on but also save your work to the cloud. They are back with the Rocketbook Orbit which is [...]  Read more

At the moment it appears as if Bernie Sanders might become the Democratic nominee. Bloomberg having entered the race means that the centrist vote is split four ways between Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar. On the left there are only [...]  Read more

Back in 2009, I wrote a post called The Venture Capital Math Problem . I was reminded of it yesterday when I saw this tweet: 1/ It is so damn hard to predict the future. This 2009 piece from @fredwilson [...]  Read more

My partner Rebecca brought an appreciation for and an understanding of marketing to USV and it has made us better investors and it has helped us assist our portfolio companies with their marketing efforts. Rebecca is going on Simulmedia Live [...]  Read more

I mentioned it yesterday but given its impact on global health and capital markets, I thought I’d share a few things I’ve read and watched in the past few days that I found helpful (both shared on Twitter by my [...]  Read more

I am going to spend much of today in my Zoom roo m participating in several meetings around the country and around the world. If you look at Zoom’s stock price over the last month, since the outbreak of the [...]  Read more

Sometimes things can get overwhelming. Tasks can seem too big to even begin. This, of course, is not true. Every journey begins with a single step, etc. My wife recently pointed me to this great passage by Anne Lamott which [...]  Read more

We are continuing to see the COVID19 coronavirus spread around the world with a big flare up in Italy. Johns Hopkins maintains a good global map of the outbreak . There are now quite a few experts who believe that [...]  Read more