By Fred Wilson—Mar 3, 2020

Our portfolio company Outschool operates a service that allows any teacher to teach a live class over online video. They offer over 10,000 classes by teachers on almost any subject you can imagine. Over 80,000 students have used Outschool to take classes. Yesterday, Outschool announced that they […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 29, 2020

Video of the week is back. This is the first video of the week post since we launched AVC 3.0. I don’t plan to do this every week, but I will do it some weeks. About a month ago, my partner Albert and I took the stage at the Upfront Summit and talked to Erin […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 28, 2020

Rocketbook is a serial Kickstarter creator, having done five successful projects already. They make notebooks and note pads that you can write on but also save your work to the cloud. They are back with the Rocketbook Orbit which is a “legal pad” that saves your work to the cloud. I backed it this […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 27, 2020

Back in 2009, I wrote a post called The Venture Capital Math Problem . I was reminded of it yesterday when I saw this tweet: 1/ It is so damn hard to predict the future. This 2009 piece from @fredwilson (literally the best in the biz) predicted significant venture industry contraction when in fact […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 26, 2020

My partner Rebecca brought an appreciation for and an understanding of marketing to USV and it has made us better investors and it has helped us assist our portfolio companies with their marketing efforts. Rebecca is going on Simulmedia Live tomorrow at 2pm ET to talk about startups, marketing, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Feb 25, 2020

I mentioned it yesterday but given its impact on global health and capital markets, I thought I’d share a few things I’ve read and watched in the past few days that I found helpful (both shared on Twitter by my friend Phil ). This is a conversation that was held last week at Johns Hopkins […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)