A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI was talking to a friend this past week who is looking at an early stage company and trying to figure out how to value it. He pointed to a similar company that has a public market cap of $250mm. I asked him how many rounds of financing or how many major milestones does this […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonTrust is rising as a central issue in tech and the Internet. We spend a lot of time at USV thinking about trust and talking about trust. It is part of our current investment thesis . Rachel Botsman is a writer who focuses on trust and her talk at DLD last month was quite good. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonSavills World Research , a global property agent, has been ranking the world’s top tech cities based on a bunch of criteria for years. In this year’s rankings , NYC tops SF to become the number one tech city in the world. This is just one survey and I am certainly not going to assert […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company SoundCloud launched an important new feature today. Distribution . There are plenty of services a musician can use to get their music onto the major streaming music services. There has been CDBaby, TuneCore, DistroKid, and many more. So why do musicians need another option? […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of my favorite moves that I have seen founders do in the early stages of their company (think pre-seed, seed, and possibly into the Srs A stages), is the weekly email. This can take a number of forms; a weekly email to the team, a weekly email to the investors, a weekly email to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonDavid Steinberg, founder and CEO of Zeta Global , the owner of Disqus, saw my blog post last week expressing a desire to make this blog easier to manage. He reached out, asking how Zeta/Disqus could help. I explained my frustration with the comments here at AVC and he asked the Disqus team to see […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
