A historical collection of our writing.
Dani GrantHi everyone. I just joined USV as an analyst. I’m coming from Cloudflare, a USV portfolio company, where I worked for Dane on the Product Strategy team. If you’re working on anything interesting related to our new thesis, reach out. I’m [email protected]. Excited to start the Union Square adVentures. […] Read more
Fred WilsonSo the news over the weekend is that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Many companies and developers are thinking “do I want my source code hosted on a service owned by Microsoft?” Fortunately, the protocol that GitHub is built on, Git , is open source and there are other Git hosts, like GitLab. There […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the blog post announcing changes at SV Angel last week, the SV Angel partners wrote: The amount of money raised in seed rounds has doubled and valuations have increased significantly. I thought I’d go back over the last three USV funds and see what I could learn about the market from our […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA few weeks ago, our portfolio company Coinbase announced that they had acquired a company called Paradex, which operates a 0x relay (in other words a decentralized exchange). If you want to know more about what all of that means, here is a video from Token Summit where all of that is explained in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI don’t have much to say today that I can say. So I thought I’d do a little link blogging instead. Here are some interesting things I read online today: 1/ Tim Wu on a legal framework called “fiduciary duty” in lieu of a US version of GDPR 2/ John Battelle on why 50% of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Modern Fertility is building a trusted consumer brand in fertility, starting with their launch today of at-home testing for women. In the comfort of their own homes, and for a fraction of what it would cost at a clinic, women can have their key fertility hormones tested through a few drops of blood. […] Read more
