Fred Wilson

NBA Top Shot Public Launch

Our portfolio company Dapper took the ropes off NBA Top Shot this past week and it is now open to anyone who wants to play…

Covid Alert NY

I’ve written a bunch about Exposure Alerting and its potential to limit the spread of Covid by alerting people when they ha…

Sora

My partner Rebecca wrote about our most recent education investment, Sora , on the USV blog today . We have been investing …

Talk:NYC Podcast

I have been saying no to podcast requests and will continue to do so. But when Julie Samuels asked me to be the first guest…

Tabs

Our portfolio company Helium started shipping a new product called Tabs last week. Tabs competes with Tile and a bunch of …

Funding Friday: NextMaker Box

Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan and funder of teaching kids to code. I believe helping young people learn to …

Universal Access and Choice

Our current investing thesis at USV is about expanding access to knowledge, wellness, and capital. We believe that these ar…

Priorities

I am in the middle of a week of back to back to back to back all day meetings. Which means I am not responsive on email, whi…

Stablecoin Adoption Revisited

I saw that the SEC and the OCC issued guidance on fiat backed stablecoins yesterday . Better late than never. Because fiat …

Rebuilding NYC

The Gotham Gal and I spent a good part of saturday walking around NYC. At one point, we walked through the massive and amazi…

Funding Friday: Dear Frontline

I backed this project today to make large scale public art projects honoring frontline workers . Frontline w…

Mobile App Stores and Crypto

I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences that the…

Circulate Networking Events

My friend and former colleague Charlie O’Donnell created a new kind of networking event for the moment we are in. These are…

Home Sweet Home

We have been back in NYC for about a week after being away for the entire pandemic. We were in LA when the pandemic hit and …

Bolster Your Management Team And Board

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio compan…

Honoring Labor

Something that bugs me about our tax code in the US is that we tax labor more than capital. If you make $100,000 of …

Funding Friday: Insider Art

The comic book community on Kickstarter is so great. This projec t that I backed today is a great example of the creativity …

Some Thoughts On SPACs

As many of you know, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are all the rage on wall street right now. SPACs are publ…

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