A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonIn many sports, like diving, gymnastics, skating, etc, the way to win is to perfectly execute a high degree of difficulty move. In startups, I advise founders to avoid that way of thinking and try to execute a simple dive and hit the water perfectly. I have sat through numerous pitches where I am […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAbout 3:15 into this video Chris Burniske asks an interesting question about how the CryptoKitties team thought about designing the kitties and the next ~four minutes are a revealing discussion about how blockchains may change the way digital art is created and sold in the future. USV TEAM POSTS: […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast night the Gotham Gal and I attended the annual benefit for the Scratch Foundation which provides financial support to the Scratch programming language and learning environment. Mitch Resnick , founder of Scratch and leader of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab (I love that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn December I wrote about the Symphony Software Foundation as it was launching the NYC Open Source Fintech Meetup . Yesterday the foundation announced a new name: FINOS. FINOS is about supporting open source software efforts across the financial services industry. Financial services has often […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA number of USV folks are using the Brave browser on their phones and thinking about using it on desktop too. We are not the average internet users at USV. We tend toward early adopter. So I polled my twitter followers (which also skews early adopter) to see how many of them are using the Brave […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAs I slowly heard toward moving the WordPress instance that hosts AVC to another provider, I was asked how large the audience was. So I went and looked for the first time in a long while and sent that info to a potential new provider. And I figured you all might be interested too. So […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
