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The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting . Currently, stock options are taxed upon exercise and RSUs are taxed upon release of the underlying shares. This is a HUGE deal [...]  Read more

Here are some “truisms” about startup investors and location that I’ve experienced and passed on over the years: Startup investors prefer to invest locally The younger the startup business, the more that is true Your lead investor/board member is more [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Nurx provides prescriptions via an app on your mobile phone. The initial offerings are birth control and HIV prevention medications, but they will add other prescriptions in the future. This news report talks about their launch in [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company eShares changed their name to Carta this week. Why? For a bunch of reasons, but mainly because the opportunity has gotten a lot bigger than “shares”. As founder/CEO Henry Ward points out in this post , the opportunity [...]  Read more

My partner Andy wrote a blog post on USV.com with this title today. I like the title so much that I want to feature the post on AVC today too. I have been a skeptic about data-driven venture capital investing for [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Blockstack , which was the subject of a video I posted here last week , started out as Onename . Onename is a distributed identity system, kind of like Facebook Auth, built on the blockchain. I wrote [...]  Read more

I’m excited about AirCraft, which I blogged about yesterday . Here’s a short teaser that Dronebase put up on YouTube yesterday: Read more