Writing

On  May 17th, AVC regulars William Mougayar  and Nick Tomaino  will be hosting the 3rd Token Summit  in New York at Pier 36 (aka Basketball City). There are still a few tickets left but I think it will sell out soon. The agenda [...]  Read more

I exchanged emails today with someone who wanted to connect with me on LinkedIn. I told him that “I don’t do LinkedIn.” I have a profile there and I use it regularly as a resume database to check out people. [...]  Read more

In many sports, like diving, gymnastics, skating, etc, the way to win is to perfectly execute a high degree of difficulty move. In startups, I advise founders to avoid that way of thinking and try to execute a simple dive [...]  Read more

About 3:15 into this video Chris Burniske asks an interesting question about how the CryptoKitties team thought about designing the kitties and the next ~four minutes are a revealing discussion about how blockchains may change the way digital art is [...]  Read more

Last night the Gotham Gal and I attended the annual benefit for the Scratch Foundation which provides financial support to the Scratch programming language and learning environment. Mitch Resnick , founder of Scratch and leader of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at [...]  Read more

In December I wrote about the Symphony Software Foundation as it was launching the NYC Open Source Fintech Meetup . Yesterday the foundation announced a new name: FINOS. FINOS is about supporting open source software efforts across the financial services [...]  Read more

A number of USV folks are using the Brave browser on their phones and thinking about using it on desktop too. We are not the average internet users at USV. We tend toward early adopter. So I polled my twitter followers [...]  Read more

As I slowly heard toward moving the WordPress instance that hosts AVC to another provider, I was asked how large the audience was. So I went and looked for the first time in a long while and sent that info [...]  Read more