A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonToday is Election Day. Polls are open in every state in the US. It is time to stop the incessant back and forth, and do the one thing that counts – voting. There is very little on my ballot here in NYC that matters much to me. The races are not close. The ballot referendums […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI spent a fair bit of time this weekend moving phones from the Pixel 2, which I have loved using, to the Pixel 3 XL . It is drop dead simple to port over all of my accounts, data, and apps from one Pixel to another. Google has made that as easy as moving from […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the most challenging situations in startup/venture capital land is the broken syndicate. It is not a topic that is talked about much, but it is fairly common, particularly for companies that succeed in building a business but falter at achieving escape velocity. A syndicate is a group of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI just watched Vitalik Buterin’s keynote at Devcon 4 in Prague last week, on Halloween and on the tenth anniversary of Satoshi’s whitepaper. In this keynote, Vitalik explains what has taken so long in getting from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0, what Ethereum 2.0 will include, and how we are going to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonBack in March of this year, I wrote a post on the USV blog announcing our investment in Cryptokitties . A lot has happened since then. The company that made Cryptokitties is now called Dapper and it has raised a couple rounds of financing which will allow it to do a number of things: Continue […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the big trends in startup land over the last decade is consumer brands getting built direct to consumer (D2C) on highly efficient advertising channels like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. In these online channels, brands can test, measure, test, measure, test, measure, and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
