By Fred Wilson—Jan 31, 2020

I don’t usually take a reward when backing a Kickstarter project, but I really need one of these fingerprint bike locks so I did today when I backed it. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Jan 30, 2020 What We Can Learn from Works in Progress Albert Wenger — Jan 29, 2020 Support Andrew Yang […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 29, 2020

Since launching AVC 3.0 on January 9th, we have had some site reliability issues. The most common issue is a “too many redirects” error that has been reported by many people and is intermittent and not easily reproducible. That said, a number of you have been able to create .HAR files and send them […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 28, 2020

We have known Justworks founder Isaac Oates since he led the creation of Etsy’s payment system a decade ago. When Isaac left Etsy and started Justworks, we were not sure his company fit into our network thesis and so we sat on the sidelines. And we sat and we sat, while Isaac and his colleagues […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Jan 27, 2020

It was nice to see Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell run the table on the Grammy’s last night. It was yet another sign that the age of self made artists is upon us. As is our custom, my partner Andy and our friend Whitney posted some music to Twitter today. Andy and I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 24, 2020

What a wonderful project . I backed it today. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Jan 22, 2020 How to Interview an Executive Coach (or a Doula) Albert Wenger — Jan 20, 2020 More on Facial Recognition Regulation Nick Grossman — Jan 17, 2020 Digital Bearer Assets Dani Grant — Jan 16, 2020 Wren […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)