A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOne of the least discussed aspects of investing in startups is the value of the time commitment one makes to a company they invest in. The money part is pretty simple; you invest capital into a business and get an equity participation in the upside. Both sides of that deal can analyze that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the crypto projects I am most excited about is Filecoin , which comes from USV portfolio company Protocol Labs , which also produced the popular hypermedia protocol IPFS . In this talk, from the Blockstack Berlin conference last month, Protocol Labs founder/CEO Juan Benet talks about […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Ryan Caldbeck is on fire on Twitter right now. Ryan is the CEO of our portfolio company CircleUp , and he just joined Twitter for the first time earlier this year and is, I may say, feeling very comfortable in the medium. Over the weekend he put up a great diagram-oriented tweetstorm with a bunch […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonFor much of yesterday if you came to AVC, you were greeted with this message: Long time AVC readers have seen this before and it is a sign that something is awry on the shared server that I run WordPress on at Bluehost. A number of regular readers reached out offering to help me move […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?” I answered “Dapps.” If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on all of that), then it sure feels like 2018 is the year we start getting […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday continues our exploration into p-values and why they are problematic. Last Wednesday we saw that if you have incentives to reject a null hypothesis, it takes less work than you would initially think to find data that gets you there. I ended that post suggesting that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
