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I am a VC & have been since 1986.
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CEO 360s

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AVC
August 28
I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again.

Subscribing To AVC

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AVC
August 23
For many years, there were three ways to subscribe to AVC:

Yubikey Authenticator

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AVC
August 15
I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone.

Helium Mobile

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AVC
August 06
USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using web3 technologies to let consumers to “peer produce” a communications network creating a people-powered network.
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Art On The Wall

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AVC
July 30
I’ve written about this topic a bunch over the years. It is something I’ve been interested in for quite a while.

The New York Tech Sector

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AVC
July 26
The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to link to the piece because it is behind a paywall but if you want to read it, you can google “Tech Firms Once Powered New York’s Economy. Now They’re Scaling Back.” I talked to one of the reporters who worked on the piece and told him that their angle was incorrect. But when a publication has their mind made up on the angle, there isn’t much you can do to convince them otherwise.

How This Ends (Part Three)

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AVC
July 17
The venture capital sector has been in a sustained downturn for almost eighteen months. How does this downturn end? Well, it may have already ended, but let’s see about that. We will know for sure in a few quarters.

Flooding

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AVC
July 15
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point.

Threads

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AVC
July 07
Like tens of millions of others, I downloaded Threads onto my phone yesterday and signed up.