Seeing Through The Fog
I was talking to my friend Simon yesterday and he observed that the essential skill of entrepreneurs and early stage VCs is to “be able to see through the fog of an emerging market and pick out the...
View ArticleBloomberg TV Appearance
Yesterday, I did a fireside chat with my friend David Kirkpatrick at his Techonomy Conference in NYC. On my way out, a Bloomberg camera crew asked me if I would talk with Emily Chang and I did, for...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: My Talk With David Kirkpatrick at Techonomy
Last wednesday morning, I went to Techonomy NYC and talked with my friend David Kirkpatrick for about 30mins.read more...
View ArticleICOs and VCs
The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet:read more...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Mary Meekerâs Internet Trends Report
This is a few weeks old, but I finally got around to watching it.read more...
View ArticleOpen Source Funding Documents
Cooley, one of the top startup law firms, has open sourced the legal documents required to do a Series Seed or Convertible Note financing.read more...
View ArticleDoing The Heavy Lifting
Most venture capital investments are made, over time, by syndicates. This means a group of venture capital firms develops around a company, usually built over multiples rounds. Some of the firms in the...
View ArticleWorking Across Many Time Zones
I was in Europe for most of June and working on a lot of things with people in the bay area. The nine hours of time zone difference was challenging. I was doing a lot of calls in the evenings with...
View ArticleSuccession Planning In Partnerships
I read today that the founders of KKR have named Joseph Bae and Scott Nuttall as co-Presidents and heir apparents. I’ve written before about succession planning in investment firms. Getting this right...
View ArticleGreed Isnât Good
The famous Gordon Gekko line that “greed is good” is bandied about quite often to explain why capitalism, and the pursuit of riches, is a positive thing for the economy, society, and the world at...
View ArticleA Public Record
AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.read more...
View ArticleFounder Friendly
Long time VC watcher, writer, and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out “founder friendly” each other are now over.read more...
View ArticleAudio Of The Week: Andy Weissman on Twenty Minute VC
In this podcast, my partner Andy talks a lot about USV’s investment process.read more...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On Burn Rates
The startup and venture capital businesses are based on a general idea that you can and should invest heavily into your business in order to increase value creation, amplify it, and accelerate it.read...
View ArticleWorry
I remember when I was in my early 20s and just starting out in the venture capital business, I came across an old wall street saying that “a market climbs a wall of worry.” I didn’t understand it and...
View ArticleDiversification (aka How To Survive A Crash)
I was emailing with my friend Harry this past week and we started talking about crypto and the inevitability of a massive crash. I am certain the big crash will happen. I don’t know when it will happen...
View ArticleYou Make Money With Wins, You Make Friends With Losses
Brad Feld has a great post about the emotional toll of the collapse of the internet bubble.read more...
View ArticleRebecca Kaden
USV added a new partner today. Her name is Rebecca Kaden and she introduced herself to our world on the USV blog just now. Rebecca joins a team of fifteen people; our network team, our analysts, and...
View ArticleOur Model
This past week our portfolio company MongoDB went public. I think that occasion presents an opportunity to talk about USV’s model.read more...
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