avc@avcJan 1, 2020What Will Happen In The 2020s avc.comWhat Will Happen In The 2020s - AVCIt’s 2020. Time to look forward to the decade that is upon us. One of my favorite quotes, attributed to Bill Gates, is that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will...3232190190622622
avc@avcSep 29, 2019The Great Public Market Reckoning avc.comThe Great Public Market Reckoning - AVCDan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: Public market investors have become less willing to leave their comfort zones, and it’s manifesting most obviously in the IPO market.Novel disruption has...12129393341341
avc@avcNov 15, 2021Seed Rounds At $100mm Post Money avc.comSeed Rounds At $100mm Post Money - AVCWe have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons: Seed stage is when a company has a good team, a good idea, but has not...33334848335335
avc@avcJun 12, 2022The Partnership avc.comThe Partnership - AVCI have worked in three venture capital firms in the thirty-six years I have been doing venture capital investing. They have all been small partnerships, between three and seven investing partners,...16163333295295
avc@avcAug 18, 2020NYC Is Dead, Long Live NYC avc.comNYC Is Dead, Long Live NYC - AVCThere is a lot of negativity around NYC right now. Bloggers writing sensational headlines. That sort of thing. It makes me want to go out and buy a ton of NYC stock right now. It is certainly the...63634545278278
avc@avcJan 1, 2023What Will Happen In 2023 avc.comWhat Will Happen In 2023 - AVCI want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central...21213737217217109K109K
avc@avcMay 23, 2023The Freedom To Innovate avc.comThe Freedom To Innovate - AVCBack in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately...12123131156156163K163K
avc@avcDec 26, 2017The Second Quartile avc.comThe Second Quartile - AVCAs I have written about here on AVC many times, early stage venture portfolios produce a wide range of outcomes. A few investments produce the vast majority of the returns while many investments...225151187187
avc@avcJun 21, 2022Staying Positive avc.comStaying Positive - AVCThe last six months have been a challenging time for tech and tech startups. Macro events have weighed on the sector, valuations have come crashing down, revenue growth has slowed (or stopped), and...17173232179179