| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 29.12.2021 | Union Square Ventures' Albert Wenger Explains Why Crypto Loo... | Contents "Worse at everything except for one dimension"From permissionless publishing to p... | u.today/un... |
| 29.12.2021 | Why Web3? | Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many le... | avc.com/20... |
| 30.08.2021 | The World After Capital | My partner Albert has been writing a book in public over the last decade called The World After Capi... | avc.com/20... |
| 18.08.2021 | Splitting Ownership and Display/Consumption | I wrote about NFTs last week and said this in that post:
But when a party emerges online that anyon... | avc.com/20... |
| 25.03.2021 | Digital Art Frames | I have a Samsung Frame in my home office. I think I posted a photo of it here at AVC once before. Bu... | avc.com/20... |
| 23.03.2021 | Crypto and Climate Continued | I wrote about crypto and climate earlier this month and suggested that the narrative that crypto is ... | avc.com/20... |
| 15.03.2021 | Capital Gains, Carried Interest, and Ordinary Income | Most of our family’s income comes in the form of capital gains. And most of that comes in the form o... | avc.com/20... |
| 14.01.2021 | Smart Contracts On Bitcoin | While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, p... | avc.com/20... |
| 11.01.2021 | Twitter and Trump | I heard the news last week that Twitter had permanently banned Trump and thought “oh my.”
Sure it i... | avc.com/20... |
| 16.12.2020 | Stacks 2.0 | The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running cont... | usv.com/wr... |
| 19.11.2020 | Link 230 Protections To Opening Up | The latest charade of bringing Jack and Zuck in front of Congress to yell at them reminds me that ou... | avc.com/20... |
| 14.07.2020 | Dozens of Venture-Backed Startups Among Edtech Recipients of... | Even the biggest names in the education technology industry, awash in private capital, are seeking p... | edsurge.co... |
| 03.06.2020 | Talking About It | I took the day off from AVC yesterday in observance of the moment we are living through. It is a ver... | avc.com/20... |
| 10.04.2020 | Listen to our midweek chat with USV’s Albert Wenger | Earlier this week TechCrunch caught up with Union Square Ventures‘ (USV) Albert Wenger. Wenger, a ma... | techcrunch... |
| 08.04.2020 | TechCrunch Live: Join USV Managing Director Albert Wenger fo... | Startups big and small, across all industries, are affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. From ... | techcrunch... |
| 16.01.2020 | Leap | When USV started looking closely at the energy sector, we were excited to find networks on multiple ... | usv.com/wr... |
| 23.10.2019 | The Access Act | Yesterday three Senators, Democrats Mark Warner (VA) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Republican Sen.... | avc.com/20... |
| 19.06.2019 | Will Facebook's Libra Be an On-Ramp or Dead End for Crypto? | Facebook's announcement that it would create a stablecoin on a blockchain means more as a competitiv... | coindesk.c... |
| 21.04.2019 | Facial Recognition | I would like to start this post with a disclosure. USV portfolio company Clarifai has one of the bes... | avc.com/20... |
| 15.01.2019 | The Daily Dose | At the bottom of the first post on this blog is a widget that contains links to recent blog posts by... | avc.com/20... |
| 01.01.2019 | What Is Going To Happen In 2019 | Hi Everyone. Happy 2019.
Today, as is my custom on the first day of the new year, I am going to tak... | avc.com/20... |
| 02.12.2018 | Centralization vs Decentralization | Decentralization is one of, if not the most, discussed features of the crypto tech stack. In a decen... | avc.com/20... |
| 08.11.2018 | The Anchor Tenant | Malls need anchor tenants. These are the stores that bring the folks to the mall so that they can di... | avc.com/20... |
| 13.03.2018 | The Decentralized Future Series: A New Age of Investing | Alex Shelkovnikov is a co-founder of Semantic Ventures, a venture capital firm supporting relentless... | blog.ycomb... |
| 26.02.2018 | Safe Harbors | I am not opposed to regulation. I think that industry needs to play by a set of rules that ensures t... | avc.com/20... |
| 16.01.2018 | Yubikeys | I saw my friend Chris tweet this question yesterday and had to respond:
Yubikeys are awesome. Not s... | avc.com/20... |
| 05.01.2018 | Data Sheet—Angered by the Rise of the ‘Raw Water’ Startup? D... | (Adam Lashinsky is on vacation. Today’s essay is by Fortune digital editor Andrew Nusca.)
My, you c... | fortune.co... |
| 04.01.2018 | I'm Having A Meltdown | So the chips we use in our personal computers and cloud computers have some newly discovered securit... | avc.com/20... |
| 07.09.2017 | A Nightmare | I don’t know why we call them Dreamers. Because they get to pursue the American Dream? Don’t we all?... | avc.com/20... |
| 26.08.2017 | Blockchain's 4 Biggest Assumptions | Wendy Xiao Schadeck is a venture investor at Northzone, based in New York City. She has been followi... | coindesk.c... |
| 18.08.2017 | Investor Albert Wenger to Fund 'XPRIZE' for Blockchain-Power... | Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger has revealed plans to fund a new prize aimed to incentiv... | coindesk.c... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the interne... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the interne... | Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a decentralized version of the internet, where users o... | venturebea... |
| 09.08.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: August 8, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment... | socialstar... |
| 27.06.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: June 27, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment... | socialstar... |
| 19.06.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: June 15, 2017 | What do our partners read each week? News about our portfolio companies, macro industry trends, our ... | socialstar... |
| 12.06.2017 | Inflation/Deflation In Tokens | I remember back in 2011 when I first learned about Bitcoin, we started talking about the technology ... | avc.com/20... |
| 04.06.2017 | Three Thoughts on the 'Crypto Bubble' | Josh Hannah is a general partner at Matrix Partners, and the co-founder of Betfair, an online market... | coindesk.c... |
| 30.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, May 30 | The $2.5 BILLION VC FIRM YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
Access Technology Ventures is not a household name i... | fortune.co... |
| 28.05.2017 | Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet | Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Th... | techcrunch... |
| 18.05.2017 | Protocol Labs | Protocol Labs made a series of announcements earlier today including that Union Square Ventures made... | usv.com/wr... |
| 02.04.2017 | How to profit from the blockchain tech stack | If someone came to you in 1992 and said, “Hey, there’s this thing called the Internet. Let me explai... | venturebea... |
| 30.01.2017 | AVC, Gotham Gal, and Feld Thoughts Communities Rally $100,00... | Reposted from Feld.com
Sunday morning Fred Wilson put up the following blog post: A $20,000 Match O... | avc.com/20... |
| 13.12.2016 | Numerai and Polychain | USV recently made two investments in hedge fund managers. You might gather from that fact that we ar... | avc.com/20... |
| 04.11.2016 | ICOs and Appcoins: A Blockchain VC's View | Travis Scher is a bitcoin and blockchain investor at Digital Currency Group, and a former attorney w... | coindesk.c... |
| 28.09.2016 | Employee #1: Coinbase | A conversation with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Coinbase’s first employee.
Employee #1 is a series of intervi... | blog.ycomb... |
| 05.09.2016 | Whither Labor? | It is Labor Day in the US, a day where we celebrate the organized labor movement. Though it wasn’t u... | avc.com/20... |
| 20.08.2016 | On Tokens and Crowdsales: How Startups Are Using Blockchain ... | Companies we've never heard of are launching IPOs before our very eyes.
But instead of ringing the ... | coindesk.c... |
| 10.08.2016 | Every Startup Needs a Regular “All Hands” Meeting | To some, the concept of an all hands meeting might seem like a waste of time. After all, everyone ha... | tech.co/ne... |
| 08.08.2016 | Fat Protocols | Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications
Here’s one way to think about the differe... | usv.com/wr... |
| 05.08.2016 | 9 hard truths chatbot developers need to learn | Bots are here. Platforms are growing. Developers are shipping products. Conferences are being held. ... | venturebea... |
| 05.08.2016 | 9 hard truths chatbot developers need to learn | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 31.07.2016 | The Golden Age Of Open Protocols | Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on... | avc.com/20... |
| 21.06.2016 | What We Can Learn From The DAO | William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain", and a board Advisor to the Et... | coindesk.c... |
| 21.06.2016 | Some Thoughts On Ethereum and The DAO | As many (most, all?) of you know, last week The DAO, a large crowdfunding experiment based on the Et... | avc.com/20... |
| 15.05.2016 | INNOVATE2016: Why the internet has failed and how to fix it | Andrew Keen Contributor
Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vert... | techcrunch... |
| 26.03.2016 | This war on math is still bullshit | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-w... | techcrunch... |
| 18.03.2016 | «Тренд года»: запуск бот-платформы Facebook станет самым гро... | Отдел новостей 18 марта 2016, 16:50 «Тренд года»: запуск бот-платформы Facebook станет самым громким... | dev.by/new... |
| 17.03.2016 | Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important l... | Tom Hadfield Contributor
Tom Hadfield is the CEO of Message.io, the bot syndication service backed ... | techcrunch... |
| 14.03.2016 | Privacy Absolutism | The Gotham Gal has been pushing me to write this post for a few weeks. Privately with family, friend... | avc.com/20... |
| 17.02.2016 | End To End Encryption | I’ve been trying to figure out what I think about a bunch of things that keep cropping up. Yesterday... | avc.com/20... |
| 18.11.2015 | Knee Jerk Reactions | Warning: This post is going to generate a debate in the comments that will likely be upsetting. Don’... | avc.com/20... |
| 26.09.2015 | I Like To Block It Block It | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-w... | techcrunch... |
| 23.09.2015 | What Kickstarter’s B Corporation tag means going forward | Kickstarter announced this week that it would henceforth do business as a Public Benefit Corporation... | technical.... |
| 21.09.2015 | Kickstarter, PBC | I recall meeting Perry Chen for the first time in the old USV offices on the 14th floor back in 2009... | avc.com/20... |
| 06.09.2015 | Recommending Recommenders | It seems like more and more of my engagement with various services I use involves some sort of recom... | avc.com/20... |
| 03.09.2015 | Forgive and Forget | My partner Albert has long been arguing on his blog (which you should be reading) that technology is... | avc.com/20... |
| 30.07.2015 | The Bull Case For Solar | My partner Albert blogged about solar yesterday and posted this chart:
I’d like to add another char... | avc.com/20... |
| 14.05.2015 | The No Stack Startup | There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years that the “full stack approach” is the future of sta... | avc.com/20... |
| 06.05.2015 | Are We Already Rebundling Mobile? | Hard to believe that it was only a year ago that the clear trend, led by Facebook’s Messenger App, a... | chicagoven... |
| 30.04.2015 | Having Empathy For Your Users | My partner Albert has a great post up today on the limitations of data and A/B testing in managing a... | avc.com/20... |
| 28.04.2015 | Clarifai | Over 30 years ago when I first started to program I was quickly fascinated by the potential for comp... | usv.com/wr... |
| 09.03.2015 | Guest Post: Beware The Post Money Trap | My partner Albert wrote this a few weeks ago. Since then I have met with a number of founders who ar... | avc.com/20... |
| 26.02.2015 | Keeping the Internet Open | Today the FCC is expected to approve its latest open internet rules, concluding the latest (but cert... | usv.com/wr... |
| 02.09.2014 | Algorithmic Organizing | My partner Albert penned a post yesterday (on and because of labor day) talking about the changing n... | avc.com/20... |
| 01.09.2014 | World Order | I’m sitting at the breakfast table while Gotham Gal does the NY Times Crossword puzzle and we are lo... | avc.com/20... |
| 08.07.2014 | The Basic Income Guarantee | My partner Albert has begun a series of blog posts on a concept called The Basic Income Guarantee. T... | avc.com/20... |
| 22.03.2014 | Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside ... | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-w... | techcrunch... |
| 11.03.2014 | Decentralized Identity | In my LeWeb talk, I mentioned decentralized identity as one of the three big things I am looking for... | avc.com/20... |
| 02.03.2014 | The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report Letter | On Friday, Berkshire Hathaway published their annual report. I always like to read the shareholder l... | avc.com/20... |
| 19.12.2013 | Markets and Clearing Prices | Last saturday night in NYC was a bit of a moment for Uber and their surge pricing mechanic. Most peo... | avc.com/20... |
| 12.12.2013 | The Limits of Capitalism | I am a capitalist. Contrary to the occasional community members who call me a socialist or a techno ... | avc.com/20... |
| 31.10.2013 | Bitcoin As Protocol | We owe many of the innovations that we use every day — from our favorite longstanding websites to th... | usv.com/wr... |
| 09.10.2013 | If You Aren't Technical, Get Technical | A few years ago, I was doing some sort of public speaking thing and in the Q&A, a young man aske... | avc.com/20... |
| 03.10.2013 | Doing Business Before Email | My friend Jordy was cleaning out some old desk drawers and came across this today
I met Jordy in 19... | avc.com/20... |
| 02.09.2013 | Jobs: Coming or Going? | It's labor day, a day we celebrate the labor movement and the social and economic achievements of A... | avc.com/20... |
| 18.07.2013 | Transparency Please | [crossposted from USV.com]
Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profit... | avc.com/20... |
| 18.07.2013 | Transparency in Government Surveillance | Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in ... | usv.com/wr... |
| 20.06.2013 | Firebase | Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from... | usv.com/wr... |
| 08.05.2013 | Off The Schneid | The almost two year long slump is over. I've led a new venture investment for USV, which closed a fe... | avc.com/20... |
| 08.05.2013 | Off The Schneid | Redeem now
The almost two year long slump is over. I've led a new venture investment for USV, which... | businessin... |
| 08.04.2013 | Don't Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste | My partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it al... | avc.com/20... |
| 23.03.2013 | Video Of The Week: Rohan's Interview With Albert Wenger | One of the secrets of the venture capital business is the magic behind a successful partnership. It ... | avc.com/20... |
| 05.01.2013 | Outsourcing Reversal | I do believe we may have reached peak employment, as discussed in the comments here recently, and as... | avc.com/20... |
| 20.11.2012 | CSEdWeek | Folks in the AVC community are well aware of my passion and energy for bringing programming educatio... | avc.com/20... |
| 18.11.2012 | Iterations: The Unbundling Power Of Mobile | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a TechCrunch contribu... | techcrunch... |
| 07.11.2012 | How Do You Take The Vote? | Kasi asked me this last night in the comments:
Fred. Now that… it is all over and done.
How do you... | avc.com/20... |
| 04.11.2012 | What I'm Reading This Sunday Morning | A Capitalist's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
The Money Quote:
The answer is that efficiency innov... | avc.com/20... |
| 30.10.2012 | Reflections on Sandy | I ended yesterday’s post with this:
Hurricane Sandy looks to be coming through NYC at that time and... | avc.com/20... |
| 20.10.2012 | Video Of The Week | The video of the week this week is from Popular Science and it comes from the ribbon cutting ceremon... | avc.com/20... |