A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOur friends Balaji and Naval penned a really nice primer on crypto-tokens. AVC readers have been hearing me talk about this new form of business model and fund raising mechanism for a while now and so it won’t be new to all of you. But even so, I think the way they lay it all out […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio Kik announced last week that they plan to decentralize their messenger app and monetize via a cryptocurrency called Kin. Here’s a video they put together explaining how it will work and why it is important: […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOver the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a digital asset collecting game called Rare Pepe. My partner Andy tipped me off to it a while back and it took me a while to wade into it. Rare Pepe is based on an internet meme called Pepe The Frog that has been around […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe Venture Capital business is full of great firms that were founded by entrepreneurs/operators who became investors mid/late career. From Gene Kleiner and Tom Perkins in the early 70s to Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at the end of the 00s, this is the iconic model of the venture capital firm […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’ve told bits and pieces of this story here on AVC over the years but I don’t think I’ve ever told the whole story. Y Combinator (YC) Demo Day has been going on over the past few days up in Silicon Valley and it prompted me to remember a demo day in Boston (where YC […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAngel/seed rounds used to be done via priced equity securities, either common or preferred. Then, starting about ten years ago, we started to see convertible debt being used in the angel and seed rounds. By 2010 this was the norm and Paul Graham tweeted this in Aug 2010: Convertible notes have won. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
