A historical collection of our writing.
Can a machine help you invest in shampoo? Coffee? Another consumer product? Last week, the USV portfolio company CircleUp announced the closing and launch of CircleUp Growth Partners – a $125 million fund that will use a quantitative machine learning approach to invest in early-stage consumer and […] Read more
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Blockstack , which was the subject of a video I posted here last week , started out as Onename . Onename is a distributed identity system, kind of like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain. I wrote about Onename a few times here on AVC back in 2014 and I suspect some […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
There was an interesting post on the YCombinator blog by Ramon Recuero about the evolution of blockchain protocols through forking and copying. The post does not mention the alternative possibility of binding voting as a mechanism for the evolution of blockchains. There are several projects, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’m excited about AirCraft, which I blogged about yesterday . Here’s a short teaser that Dronebase put up on YouTube yesterday: […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI hesitate to call this a feature, even though it is, as AirCraft is a way bigger deal than a new feature. Our portfolio company Dronebase operates the largest drone pilot network in the world. Tens of thousands of pilots fly missions for Dronebase and the Dronebase mobile apps are used by most of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe Token Summit, run by AVC regulars William Mouyagar and Nick Tomaino , announced two more events in the coming months, Dec 5th 2017 in San Francisco and May 17 2018 in New York. The first Token Summit was held in NYC at NYU last May, and sold out. Here’s a highlight reel from it . Today, William […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
