The almost two year long slump is over. I've led a new venture investment for USV, which closed a few weeks ago and was announced last night. The company is Coinbase and my blog post announcing the investment is on the USV blog . The WSJ also wrote about it here . This hiatus, which I...
AVC regular Dan Ramsden posted a thougtful essay on GigaOM yesterday . After I read it, I sent Dan an email and I said "do you think big beats little in this phase we are in?" Dan replied that he did and asked me what I thought. I think David beats Goliath all day long if you are focu...
I wrote a post about Bitcoin last November wondering if it was over or if we were just in a down phase in the hype cycle (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/bitcoin.html). In the nine months since that post, Bitcoin has made a nice recovery. The price is up and volume of transactions is ...
This is the final post for my Skillshare class on Sustainability . I will not do office hours this evening but I will do one final office hours next Monday, Oct 29th, from 6pm to 6:30pm. The link to attend that office hours is here . For this final post, I want to focus on the Busines...
