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The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token  yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet: The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised 30 million dollars in 24 seconds. VC’s didn’t even have [...]  Read more

William and I did the wrap-up at the end of Token Summit. Here is the video of it: And here is CNBC’s take on it . I’d love to know if you all think she captured my views accurately. I [...]  Read more

I have had this book, A Man For All Markets , on my kindle for the past year. I can’t recall who recommended it, possibly my friend Jeremy , but I can’t be sure. A couple weeks ago, I had [...]  Read more

Our friends Balaji and Naval penned a really nice primer on crypto-tokens. AVC readers have been hearing me talk about this new form of business model and fund raising mechanism for a while now and so it won’t be new to [...]  Read more

Our portfolio Kik announced last week that they plan to decentralize their messenger app and monetize via a cryptocurrency called Kin. Here’s a video they put together explaining how it will work and why it is important: Read more

The Venture Capital business is full of great firms that were founded by entrepreneurs/operators who became investors mid/late career. From Gene Kleiner and Tom Perkins in the early 70s to Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at the end of the [...]  Read more