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Chris Burniske posted this Twitter poll a few days ago: Given the tense #crypto market environment right now, are you expecting: — Chris Burniske (@cburniske) September 14, 2017 I voted for option one. I think the crypto markets will be [...]  Read more

Yesterday was a big day for our portfolio company Kickstarter . They launched in Japan , a market that has been dying for Kickstarter to come to for years. Read more

I took a ferry up the East River yesterday evening to attend a dinner celebrating the official opening of Cornell Tech which happens this morning. Situated on Roosevelt Island, underneath the Queensboro Bridge, Cornell Tech is a graduate school of [...]  Read more

Jacqueline gave us an update yesterday on the latest with ARKit and Google’s ARCore . These AR “browsers” are coming soon to Apple and Google phones. We think this is a big deal because for the first time AR developers will [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Kik is doing a token offering for its Kin crypto token this coming week. AVC regular William Mougayar interviewed Kik founder/CEO Ted Livingston a few weeks ago and their talk is the video of the week this [...]  Read more

I don’t know why we call them Dreamers. Because they get to pursue the American Dream? Don’t we all? These kids, or adults as many are now, were born here in America and have lived here every day of their [...]  Read more

I received an over the air upgrade to the Oreo version of Android (Android 8) yesterday. It makes my phone feel even more like an iPhone. Notifications work more like iOS. Google has polished the UI quite a bit and it [...]  Read more

Regulators in China imposed a blanket ban on ICOs over the long weekend. A number of people have reached out to me via email and Twitter asking me what I think about this. I think regulation of ICOs is inevitable [...]  Read more