A historical collection of our writing.
For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or more browsers. But early on this was a chicken and egg problem. There were a variety of ways this problem got solved including AOL sending out […] Read more
Fred WilsonYesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about the other two in the coming weeks. These are token transactions denominated in ETH and […] Read more
David GabeauThis is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Natural resources such as fertile land and healthy oceans are the ultimate foundations of the economy and civilization, and their protection and regrowth are critical to resolving the climate crisis. However, since […] Read more
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum and more recently a series of new general and specialized basechains […] Read more
Fred WilsonI’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. While the move to mobile certainly created some new companies, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Dani GrantEarlier today, the Arweave team announced that they’ve raised additional capital in order to fund developers who want to build on Arweave through two new programs – Arweave Grants and Arweave Boost. People are already building lots of amazing things on Arweave, and we cannot wait to see what new […] Read more
