Writing

Our USV Portfolio Network Team built a new offering last year called the USV Manager Bootcamp . Read more

My friend Mark Mullen and his partner Jim Andelman are announcing a new VC firm in Southern California today . They call themselves Bonfire Ventures . I love how they describe themselves as “a low-volume, high-conviction, high-support investor.” That is [...]  Read more

If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup [...]  Read more

I found this wide ranging interview quite interesting. Alex has been an entrepreneur and is now an investor. He is operating at the intersection of traditional fintech and crypto, which is a place USV also often occupies. USV TEAM POSTS: [...]  Read more

Something I am a huge fan of is Board Feedback. I’ve written about this a lot here at AVC and I am writing about it again today. Because it is important and not done regularly in my experience. A founder/CEO [...]  Read more

Last week I started getting lots of stories about Kendrick Lamar and SZA in my Google Now news feed on my phone.  I thought to myself “why all of sudden does Google think I’m interested in Kendrick Lamar and SZA?” [...]  Read more