A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonHere are some “truisms” about startup investors and location that I’ve experienced and passed on over the years: Startup investors prefer to invest locally The younger the startup business, the more that is true Your lead investor/board member is more likely to be a local investor than your […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Nurx provides prescriptions via an app on your mobile phone. The initial offerings are birth control and HIV prevention medications, but they will add other prescriptions in the future. This news report talks about their launch in Texas this summer which was extremely […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post, the opportunity is to build the ownership graph: If you drill far enough […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post , the opportunity is to build the ownership graph: If you drill far enough […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy partner Andy wrote a blog post on USV.com with this title today. I like the title so much that I want to feature the post on AVC today too. I have been a skeptic about data-driven venture capital investing for a long time. However, I do think CPG is a sector where this could work […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Blockstack , which was the subject of a video I posted here last week , started out as Onename . Onename is a distributed identity system, kind of like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain. I wrote about Onename a few times here on AVC back in 2014 and I suspect some […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
