By Fred Wilson—Apr 21, 2018

AVC regular William Mougayar posted a slide deck he calls State Of Tokens this week. I like the deck a lot, particularly slide 34 (it’s a 36 slide deck), where he posits a timeline for the development of the blockchain ecosystem and where we are right now. Here it is: State of Tokens by […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Zach Goldstein—Apr 20, 2018

I’m Zach, one of the new analysts at USV. I’m excited to be a part of this team and eager to find and support entrepreneurs on their quests to innovate. […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Apr 20, 2018

I recently wrote a post about requiring APIs for social and other applications that have more then 1 million users. Now that is an approach to the problem of market power that adds new regulations. There is an alternative that would go the route of removing existing laws which I want to discuss […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Apr 19, 2018

I wrote those words to a friend of mine yesterday. We are working on a project together. He wrote me an email listing a whole bunch of investments to be made and where we are on them. I read it and understood it, but it didn’t really register with me. So we are going to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Apr 18, 2018

Shapeways has printed over 10 million different products. This has allowed Shapeways to hone its printing and logistical capabilities. Along the way, the team has also developed great insights into the needs of creators. We are excited that Shapeways is expanding its service offering accordingly. […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Apr 18, 2018

The news broke earlier this week that our portfolio company Coinbase has acquired Earn.com . A lot of the press attention was centered around the fact that Earn’s CEO Balaji Srinivasan is becoming Coinbase’s CTO and the backstory about how Earn came out of a pivot from a failed Bitcoin mining […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)