A historical collection of our writing.
Two years ago I wrote a series of blog posts on board effectiveness tips. I am adding a new one today. If you have a large board, make sure you have a lead director. “What is a lead director?” you may ask. Informally speaking it is the director who makes sure that the board reaches […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalAcross our active USV portfolio network of 70 companies, it’s highly likely that there’s at least one other person thinking about some of those same challenges. Our goal is to design an experience that makes it as easy as possible to find that individual and get your questions answered. Here’s how […] Read more
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post, the opportunity is to build the ownership graph: If you drill far enough […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post , the opportunity is to build the ownership graph: If you drill far enough […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy partner Andy wrote a blog post on USV.com with this title today. I like the title so much that I want to feature the post on AVC today too. I have been a skeptic about data-driven venture capital investing for a long time. However, I do think CPG is a sector where this could work […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
In today’s Uncertainty Wednesday we are putting some of the ideas from the last few weeks together: we are looking at the behavior of the sample mean of a fat tailed distribution. To do this we will again use a bit of Python code. Unlike our first sample mean example where we looked at the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
