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I am happy to write that the Numeraire token is live on the Ethereum blockchain. Read more

Cooley, one of the top startup law firms, has open sourced the legal documents required to do a Series Seed or Convertible Note financing. They are available on Cooley’s CooleyGo document generation platform and also on GitHub . Kudos to [...]  Read more

Mark Suster just put up a long post on this topic . His message is “it depends” and he explains the rationale for investing in growth vs getting profitable. I have come to think about this differently. If you are [...]  Read more

This is a few weeks old, but I finally got around to watching it. Mary always does a nice job of summarizing the latest trends. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Marz Crystal — June 15, 2017 If You See Something, Say [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Dronebase announced something interesting and fun this week . They have partnered with Getty Images to provide opportunities for drone pilots to fly “creative missions”. Read more

I got this question on Twitter yesterday: Are there any parallels you can draw between ICOs and private investment rounds? — Daniel Olshansky (@olshansky) June 13, 2017 And I responded with this: Yes, buyer beware. Do your homework. Don’t be [...]  Read more

That’s a line from one of my favorite films, The Warriors . But this post is not about those Warriors. It is about the Golden State Warriors. Who are now the world champions for the second time in three years [...]  Read more

I remember back in 2011 when I first learned about Bitcoin, we started talking about the technology and the model internally at USV. My partner Albert had done a lot of reading about it and he raised the 21mm hard [...]  Read more