A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalStop me if any of these sound familiar: Scenario 1: Work connection cancels / reschedules a meeting on you for the third time in the row. You: “All good!” Scenario 2: Friend outright stands you up for dinner; says they got caught up in work and their cell phone battery died. You: “No worries.” […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAt the bottom of the first post on this blog is a widget that contains links to recent blog posts by other USV team members. Many USV folks blog regularly and this widget surfaces those posts to all of you and everyone who visits the various blogs of the USV team members. Other than me, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast week I wrote about and linked to the PWC/CB Insights round up of venture investing in 2018. Well less than a week later Crunchbase is out with its own data on 2018 . The Crunchbase numbers are much bigger, they report about $330bn of global deal volume. But otherwise the trends are roughly the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalYesterday I joined into a pretty extensive Twitter thread about the importance of “platform efforts” at venture capital firms — or, the post-investment value add engagement work that I do on the Network team at USV. In this thread, folks from many different firms jumped in to share their thoughts […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital continues the topic of Informational Freedom, discussing overreach in the patent system and offering prizes as an alternative mechanism. This is timely as the patent office has unfortunately issued new rules that will make it easier to obtain software […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the wake of Erin Griffith’s piece in the NY Times suggesting that venture capital is toxic for some entrepreneurs, there has been a fair bit of debate about the causes of that situation. Dan Primack tweeted this yesterday: One thing that I think gets lost in the VC vs. non-VC discussion is that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
