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| Nov 28, 2025 | Beyond the Notes: Nicole Ying on Media's Role in Cultural Artistry | Created by
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| Jun 7, 2025 | The Battle for Screens: Price Cuts and Innovation in the TV and AR Glasses Markets | In the fast-paced world of consumer electronics, competition is fierce. Two sectors are currently at the forefront: televisions and augmented reality (AR) glasses. Both are experiencing seismic shifts, driven by price cuts and technological... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Chinese TV Makers Cut Prices in Mid-Year Shopping Gala Amid Stiff Competition | (Yicai) June 5 -- Chinese television manufacturers have reduced their prices by over 10 percent on larger models and roughly 30 percent on smaller sets for this year’s 618 shopping festival amid intense competition and buoyed by government ... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | How to Become a Full Stack Java Developer | Share
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| Feb 7, 2024 | Does Europe Need More ‘Founder-VCs’? | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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“Europe needs more VCs with experience founding a startup.”
It’s a common sentiment in a market known for risk-averse investors focused on “number crunching,” which makes the idea worth f... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Investing at the Edge of Large Markets Under Transformative Pressure | Union Square Ventures turns 20 this year. Brad and Fred began to deploy the first USV fund in 2004. The dot com bubble had recently popped, modern smartphones hadn’t been invented, “social media” wasn’t a thing, and the first bitcoin transa... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Joining Union Square Ventures | I am delighted to share that I have joined USV as a Venture Partner in NYC where I will lead new investments, help to support founders in our portfolio, and work with the USV team as we evolve our thesis.
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| Jan 3, 2024 | NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure | USV started playing with NFTs in 2017. First when Rare Pepes were starting to gain some niche popularity and then again when cryptokitties launched. Shortly after that exploration, we invested in the team behind cryptokitties and wrote:
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| Dec 21, 2023 | Error 402: Information Wants To Be… Freemium? | Last week in the Error 402 series on the past, present, and future of web monetization, we talked about the whole “information wants to be expensive, information wants to be free” dilemma, that partially explained why early paywalls failed,... |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Open Source, the AI stack, and need for permissionless experimentation | An obvious observation: open-source software has been an integral part of software development for decades. This collaborative approach enables developers across the world to work together on projects in a decentralized manner. Making sourc... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Union Square Ventures slashed the value of 7 of its funds by 26%. Insiders say this will be the 'start of a cascade' of lower valuations for VC funds. | Fred Wilson, the co-founder of Union Square Ventures. Brian Ach/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Feb 7, 2023 | Rightsizing The Capital Runway For Takeoff | Dan Hoffer is a Managing Director at Autotech Ventures and a former technology company founder/CEO. |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Private venture-capital returns from one of the largest endowments reveal Union Square Ventures has been wildly successful. Sequoia and Y Combinator have lost money so far. | From left: Sequoia's Roelof Botha, Initialized's Jen Wolf, and USV's Fred Wilson. Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Dec 5, 2022 | OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot sparks excitement and concern from investors, entrepreneurs, researchers | (Bigstock Image)
“Extremely impressive.” “Incredibly rich.” “Super exciting.”
That’s how tech leaders are describing ChatGPT, the new conversational chatbot model released last week by OpenAI.
The bot builds on existing GPT natural language... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Ищем аномалии: доход, отношения и 10х-программисты | Вскоре после того как я, в сентябре 2013, начал вести блог (мне, студенту, тогда больше нечем было заняться), я поставил перед собой цель — писать по статье в неделю. В результате — со дня рождения моего блога и до того момента, когда я нач... |
| Jun 4, 2022 | The Coming InDAOstrial Revolution | The invention of the joint-stock corporation in the 1600s was transformative for human organizing. Providing a structure for jointly working toward economic growth, corporations drove the subsequent Industrial Revolution and fundamentally s... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | The unauthorized profile of Chris Dixon, the world’s top crypto investor | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
It was 1982 and 10-year-old Chris Dixon got his second computer—an Atari 800.
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| Mar 9, 2022 | Radiant | USV’s Climate Thesis is to invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. One important way that we can both mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis is to use more nuclear energy. I wrote ... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Startup Funding Explained: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Venture Capital for a Startup | Getting venture capital firms (VCs) to invest in your startup can be hard. Proving that your startup has the potential for growth and getting the right valuation is just the tip of the iceberg. Each stage of every round of funding has its o... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Фред Уилсон: как мы недооценили Airbnb и прозевали много миллиардов долларов | «Это пример чистого неподдельного надувательства»
Эпический провал инвестора-блоггера, Фреда Уилсона, который специализируется на стартапах с технологиями Web 2.0. Среди его инвестиций — Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter и Mon... |
| Dec 10, 2021 | The ‘art’ of VC startup valuations is a forgery | Scott Lenet Contributor
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| Nov 16, 2021 | Balderton closes $600M fund, its biggest yet earmarked for early-stage investments | Funding for European startups is at a record-high so far for this year, with €73.7 billion raised in the first three quarters, and the full year on track for more than 8,000 deals, according to research from PitchBook. To keep up with the p... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Unlike other types of institutional investors, venture capitalists love to share business know-how.
Some have develo... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Inside Reach Capital’s edtech-powered returns | Reach Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm co-founded by Jennifer Carolan and Shauntel Garvey, focused exclusively on edtech for years before the sector ballooned with unicorns. The rare, female-led partnership closed its third fund ... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Про инвестиции в мемы: Gamestock, $DOGE, криптопанки, NFT | Я решил написать эту статью после того, как попытался объяснить родителями, как JPEG картинка криптопанка может стоить $10 млн.
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| Aug 9, 2021 | Live events startup Hopin is only 2 years old and worth $7.75 billion — a staggering 75x revenue multiple | Johnny Boufarhat Hopin founder and CEO Hopin This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jun 9, 2021 | Monthly Funding Recap: Funding, New Unicorns And Exits Continue At A Strong Pace In May 2021 | 57 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
May 2021 marked the third-highest funding month for global venture funding in the past decade, with venture investors spending $43.7 billion last month, up 50 percent year over year.
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| May 15, 2021 | Amazon Readies To Take Over The Post-Pandemic World | IMAGE:NurPhoto via Getty Images |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Coinbase investor Fred Wilson said bitcoin could be a ‘fantasy’ when he first invested in 2013. His firm’s stake is now worth a whopping $4.6 billion, or 1,840 times its initial investment | Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson. Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Fred Wilson once described bitcoin as science fiction – then invested $2.5 million in Coinbase.
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| Apr 30, 2021 | Coinbase investor Fred Wilson said bitcoin could be a 'fantasy' when he first invested in 2013. His firm's stake is now worth a whopping $4.6 billion, or 1,840 times its initial investment | Fred Wilson once described bitcoin as science fiction - then invested $2.5 million in Coinbase.
Eight years after, Wilson became the company's most profitable exit, selling the equivalent of $1.8 billion, Bloomberg reported.
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| Apr 26, 2021 | Founders who don’t properly vet VCs set up both parties for failure | Andrés Dancausa Contributor
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| Apr 19, 2021 | How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing | Email is the communication medium that refuses to die.
“Eventually, every technology is trumped by something new and better. And I feel that email is ready to be trumped. But by what?” wrote the venture capitalist Fred Wilson in 2007. Three... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Aave Founder Joins Variant Fund as a Venture Partner | Stani Kulechov, founder of decentralized finance (DeFi) money market Aave, is joining Variant Fund, a cryptocurrency investing firm betting on the concept of the ownership economy.
"At Variant, we pride ourselves on helping founders bu... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | USV has been aggressively selling off shares in Coinbase in run up to IPO | Coinbase’s S-1 publicly dropped this morning, with much anticipation. My colleague Alex Wilhelm has the high-level details, but there was one major wrinkle for the crypto trading darling: two of its early investors seem to be cutting down t... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Facebook hides the branded hoodies as 2021 brings the first cataclysm of Marc Andreessen’s tech prophecy | Good day, and welcome to this Wednesday’s edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech.
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| Jan 13, 2021 | Facebook hides the branded hoodies as 2021 brings the first cataclysm of Marc Andreessen's tech prophecy | Good day, and welcome to this Wednesday's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech.
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| Jan 12, 2021 | Twilio CEO Interview: The Superpower Of Digital Transformation | A meeting with CEO Jeff Lawson.Twilio |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Trump and Mnuchin’s parting sneak attack on financial privacy | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
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| Jan 3, 2021 | Ethereum Cofounder Reveals ‘Underrated’ Bitcoin And Crypto Bull Case Amid Massive Price Rally | Bitcoin has exploded since October, climbing from its long-time $10,000 per bitcoin support level to never-before-seen highs of almost $35,000. |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Правила стартапов. Конфигурация команды основателей | Продолжаем препарировать «идеальную» презентацию стартапа. «Капитан венчурная очевидность» делает еще один подход к слайду «Основатели», описывая их идеальную конфигурацию.
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| Oct 20, 2020 | Making Butter with Jam | At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process. It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone. Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like a hose over the cr... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Sora | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch
USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners with products and platforms that offer high quality experiences for free or at accessi... |
| Sep 5, 2020 | The future of retail and office space is up in the air, and proptech investors are optimistic | Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.
The malls and grocery stores of the 20th century are being converted into industrial conveyor... |
| Sep 5, 2020 | How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading.
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| Sep 3, 2020 | Edtech is the new SaaS | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
The whole crew was back, with Natasha Mascarenhas and Danny Crichton and myself chattering, ... |
| Aug 8, 2020 | Ползти, идти, бежать | Венчурный инвестор Фред Уилсон, у себя в блоге, поделился своим видением к построению стартапа. Моё вольное #саммари
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| Jul 31, 2020 | Децентрализованные финансы (DeFi) | За последние семь дней Bitcoin вырос на 18%, а Ethereum — на 30%. Некоторые считают, что всему виной сегмент криптовалют под названием Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Разбираемся, что это такое.
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| Jun 30, 2020 | Обязательства фаундеров и опционные программы в стартапах | Выдержка из «Юридического путеводителя для бизнес-ангелов». Про инструменты финансирования, аудит, налоги и другие особенности инвестирования в стартапы читайте на сайте Lazzy Ventures
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| Jun 1, 2020 | Not all gross margins are the same | We look closely at gross margins (GM) at Shearwater. Think of GM as what’s left of your revenue after you take out direct costs. If you’re a milk producer, then your GM is likely to be quite low once you remove the cost of the milk, bottles... |
| May 22, 2020 | Startup Guide to Raising Venture Capital: Series A, B, and C Funding Explained | Getting venture capital companies (VCs) to invest in your business can be hard. Proving that your business has the potential for growth and getting the right valuation is just the tip of the iceberg. Each stage of every round of funding has... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | What COVID-19 Means For Startup Ecosystems—And What Can Be Done | A year ago, it was estimated that the “global startup economy” created nearly $3 trillion in economic value between 2016 and 2018. Now, billions of dollars of that economic value may be leaking away, likely by the day. |
| Mar 15, 2020 | When The Music Stops: SAFEs & Convertible Notes Give VCs Massive Price Protection | “In a sluggish economy |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Early Stage Technology Funding In The Time Of Coronavirus | Last week, Sequoia Capital, one of the oldest and most respected venture funds, issued its “Black Swan” memo to its portfolio companies warning them to have enough cash on hand and make decisive decisions to weather the storm that has been ... |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Crypto, Social? | When you really think about it, isn’t crypto kind of an amazing platform to build social products on? Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How fun is that!... |
| Feb 8, 2020 | Growth Company & Startup Guide To Stock Vesting / “Restricted Stock” (Section 83(b) Elections) | By Ed Zimmerman & Lesley Adamo |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Как отслеживать новые тренды и находить то, что нужно людям: 16 сервисов, ресурсов и прогнозов | Технологии сильно изменили нашу жизнь. Чтобы находить новые тренды, теперь не обязательно жить в Кремниевой Долине. Я составил список из шестнадцати сервисов, приложений, статей и подходов для отслеживания новых трендов и поиска новых рыноч... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | The tech buzzword of 2020 has already arrived after only 9 days: 'decentralised' | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a list of predictions for the decade to come.
He highlighted far-off initiatives that Facebook is working on, like virtual reality and augmented reality.
At one p... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | What To Work On In 2020s | There are some general principles regarding what to work on.
You should work on something that you enjoy. Something working on which brings you alive. Something that gives you job satisfaction and interests you. Something that you are pass... |
| Dec 20, 2019 | Do more startups die of indigestion or starvation? | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between.
Today, we’re weighing a standard bit of startup wisdom that recently reemerged against some surprising, contrasting evide... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Legendary venture capitalist Fred Wilson is betting $5 million the world needs another video media startup. He explains how The Recount could quickly become a profitable, $200 million business | REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Successful venture capitalist Fred Wilson has invested $5 million in John Heilemann and John Battelle's media startup, The Recount, which sums up the day's politics news in short clips.
He not only believ... |
| Nov 3, 2019 | How To Tell When A Startup Turns Into A Business? | WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann. Getty Images |
| Oct 22, 2019 | The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams | When Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP in 1947, it made logistical and fiscal sense to have all their workers housed under one roof. Ditto for Apple. It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | No One Knows What Anything Is Worth, Part II | 29 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: We tend to compare startup valuations to SaaS multiples. What happens if our benchmark is inflated? This post is a spiritual successor to this June entry.
The troubled IPOs from Ube... |
| Oct 1, 2019 | Understanding Why VCs Are Talking About Revenue Quality This Week | 41 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
A few IPOs make like pears and all of a sudden the VCs are getting wonky again.
If you’ve been on Twitter the past few days and take part in the venture capital parts of the social media service, yo... |
| Oct 1, 2019 | Understanding Why VCs Are Talking About Revenue Quality This Week | 39 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
A few IPOs make like pears and all of a sudden the VCs are getting wonky again.
If you’ve been on Twitter the past few days and take part in the venture capital parts of the social media service, yo... |
| Sep 27, 2019 | The natural movement of a business is to be operating at profit | I saw a quote recently from a founder following a funding round which said: “Always raise money before you think you need it”. While I understand the sentiment, it’s worth pausing for a moment and questioning this strategy. |
| Aug 28, 2019 | A VC Firm Just Raised $200M to Grow the Algorand Ecosystem | image via shutterstock.
Algo Capital announced this week it closed $200 million in funding for its venture capital arm, Algo VC.
The fund plans to invest in businesses building on the Algorand blockchain platform, and increase uptake of the... |
| Aug 10, 2019 | Crypto Gamers Are Showing Little Interest in Decentralized NFTs | A new report on the nascent ecosystem of blockchain-based games indicates that one of the model's most-trumpeted characteristics -- the ability to mix and swap data between games – isn't panning out.
The idea of cross-overs between games is... |
| Aug 9, 2019 | An Outsized Series A, A Call For Change, And Whales | 24 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This short blog is based off a Twitter thread from the other day in which we got a whole gaggle of nerds to argue about Series A rounds. It must have been a good week.
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| Jun 19, 2019 | 03 Books On Mastering Startup Fund Raising From Venture Capital Firms | Raising money is a challenge for every first-time entrepreneur. Even if you are a veteran entrepreneur, it is a tall order to deal with VCs because "capital raising process is asymmetric for entrepreneurs in that they do it a few times... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Venture Capitalists Weigh In on the SEC-Kik Case: Term Sheet | THE SEC STRIKES
It’s been a while since I wrote about the state of the cryptocurrency market (largely because many of the private equity-focused Term Sheet readers revolted and urged me to write about “real businesses” instead…).
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| Jun 4, 2019 | The Ledger: The Crypto Rebellion, Mastercard Moxie, As Coinbase Turns | American history is replete with uprisings against overbearing government: think of tax-weary colonists throwing tea into Boston harbor or the Reagan Revolution of 1981, where voters demanded a respite from regulation. Today, leading figure... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | A Legal Fight Against The SEC May Represent Our Last Hope For An Open, Distributed Internet | Let’s get this out of the way up top: yes, many cryptocurrencies and “Initial Coin Offerings” (ICO’s) were complete scams, designed to dupe people out of billions of dollars. It’s entirely reasonable to call those out, and to argue that the... |
| May 29, 2019 | The Ledger: IPOs to Rival Dotcom Bubble, Facebook ‘GlobalCoin’ Coming Soon, Billion-Dollar Blockchain Buybacks | 2019 is poised to be the biggest year for U.S.-listed initial public offerings since the dotcom bubble.
That was one of the findings in a piece I contributed to the recently published Fortune 500 issue of the magazine. As Kathleen Smith, co... |
| May 23, 2019 | And Now, For Something Different | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: A quick change-up from our regular fare. Let’s look at some other neat stuff that’s happening.
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| May 12, 2019 | From crypto winter to crypto weirder | Captain Kirk and neo-Dadaists. Repugnant markets and legendary cryptographers. “Digital couture” auctioned by CryptoKitties developers. Distributed autonomous art organizations. A keynote speech looking back from 2047 at the near-apocalypse... |
| May 5, 2019 | The entrepreneur playbook for sourcing a lead investor in NYC | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| May 5, 2019 | The entrepreneur playbook for sourcing a lead investor in NYC | “We have soft-circled all of the capital we need for the round, except for the lead. All we need is a lead!”
New York-based investors hear this daily from entrepreneurs, and we understand their pain. Securing a lead investor is critical, bu... |
| May 2, 2019 | Free Learning | There is an aptitude test that measures creativity by asking people to name use cases for objects such as a paper clip. People who score in the genius category not only come up with many use cases for a paper clip, they also change what it ... |
| Mar 21, 2019 | Why it’s no surprise that pro rata rights don’t mean what they used to | Yesterday, renowned investor Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures observed in a blog post that fewer founders in today’s go-go market have been honoring what are called pro rata rights, or the right of an earlier investor in a company to ma... |
| Mar 16, 2019 | Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding | We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies.
I’m fairly certain we can all agree that the environment for startups h... |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Decade In Review: Trends In Seed And Early Stage Funding | 65 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies.
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| Mar 13, 2019 | Decade In Review: Trends In Seed And Early Stage Funding | 66 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies.
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| Feb 27, 2019 | The Distributed Computing Update #3 | Last summer, I wrote an overview of distributed computing projects in which I now believe I got one key point very wrong.
At the time, I believed that a distributed compute project’s core strategy should be to undercut centralized compute ... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Follow the money: the rise of Conscious Capital and founder due diligence | Forget corner shops and car washes, are tech companies cleaning the money of the world’s filthy rich?
If 2018 was dominated by the “techlash”, 2019 is due to deal with the fallout. Despite the tech industry branding itself as responsible a... |
| Feb 20, 2019 | Timing and why we’re all VCs | Timing is the single most valuable skill of the modern economy, but I would argue it’s the least understood and also the least practiced.
Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities befo... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | The opportunity for learning & development at scale | Millennial employees are less drawn to the perks of their parents’ generation, like company-funded pensions, and more motivated by flexibility, autonomy, and access to the newest technology (cool offices help, too). One thing that has remai... |
| Jan 14, 2019 | 3 top crypto investors give their 2019 predictions for cryptocurrency | Getty
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| Jan 2, 2019 | As market shifts, Atlas Venture closes a $250 million fund to support its breakaway biotech bets | Atlas Venture, the Cambridge, Mass.-based early-stage, biotech-focused venture firm, has for the first time raised an opportunity fund designed to help it support its most promising, maturing portfolio companies.
The $250 million fund, anno... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Union Square Ventures secures $429M across two new funds | New York-based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) has submitted paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating a $429 million fundraise across two new vehicles.
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| Dec 31, 2018 | Union Square Ventures Raises Nearly $429M For Two 2019-Vintage VC Funds
A New Early Stage Fund For 2019
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Late Friday afternoon, Union Square Ventures (USV) filed paperwork with the SEC disclosing that it has raised two new venture funds totaling nearly $430 million.
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| Dec 24, 2018 | Several Tech And Finance Predictions I’ll Regret Next Year | 32 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Welcome to the end of the year. I hope your KPIs are full, your OKRs are wrapped, and your stretch plan has been met.
Today I want to make a number of predictions about technology companies and mone... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Quick Thoughts On The Crypto Selloff | 26 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Welcome back from the holiday weekend, America. It wasn’t a festive period for crypto fans.
Over the past few days, the value of cryptocurrencies has fallen sharply. Bitcoin dipped ... |
| Oct 23, 2018 | Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Raises $1B Amid Questions About Brother’s Ties To Saudi Arabia | 68 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Joshua Kushner, the left-leaning brother of presidential consigliere Jared Kushner, has had a busy week. He just married entrepreneur and software engineering scholarship benefactor Karlie Kloss. An... |
| Oct 23, 2018 | Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Raises $1B Amid Questions About Brother’s Ties To Saudi Arabia | 63 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Joshua Kushner, the left-leaning brother of presidential consigliere Jared Kushner, has had a busy week. He just married entrepreneur and software engineering scholarship benefactor Karlie Kloss. An... |
| Oct 10, 2018 | The Many Flavors of Venture Partners: From the Platform Braintrust | In August, I put out a call to the Global VC Platform network with the subject line “Venture Partner Framework,” asking: |
| Sep 25, 2018 | The death of once high-flying VC funds | They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked about how to “fix capitalism” and Binary Capital wanted to “affect global behaviour change.” Ro... |
| Sep 24, 2018 | How High Is Too High For Software Companies’ Revenue Multiples? | 54 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Are software companies overvalued? Some dated information caught my eye this weekend, indicating that software companies passed a key valuation threshold a few months ago. Another dataset seems to b... |
| Sep 24, 2018 | How High Is Too High For Software Companies’ Revenue Multiples? | 51 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Are software companies overvalued? Some dated information caught my eye this weekend, indicating that software companies passed a key valuation threshold a few months ago. Another dataset seems to b... |
