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I am a VC. I have been for 19 years. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but it...
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Posted: Friday 24 February 2012
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A few days ago, I stared getting emails asking about avc.fm. Was this done with my approval? Did I know who was behind it? The answer was no and no so I tweeted this out and gave my approval. AVC.fm,...
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Posted: Thursday 23 February 2012
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I met with a group of very experienced and sophisticated investors yesterday who make up the investment committee of a large charitable foundation that is an investor in USV. I gave them a two minute brief on our macro investment...
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Posted: Monday 20 February 2012
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This is the final post of the MBA Mondays series on The Management Team. It is my favorite MBA Mondays series so far. The guest posts in particular have been fantastic. Back when I started this series, I outlined it...
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Posted: Saturday 18 February 2012
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There are millions of homes and apartments around the country that have a TV connected to a cable but have no set-top box and no video service from their local cable provider. These TV viewers either moved into a home...
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Posted: Friday 17 February 2012
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I know its supposed to be Fun Friday, but this is going to be a Fun Feature Friday. Yesterday our portfolio company Kik launched a new mobile app/platform called Clik. Clik is really just one simple feature, implemented as a...
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Posted: Sunday 12 February 2012
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It was a big week for our portfolio company Kickstarter. In the span of 24 hours, not one but two projects passed $1mm in funding. Co-founder Yancey Strickler wrote a great blog post laying out the timeline of those 24...
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Posted: Friday 10 February 2012
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The other day my friend Ben Kweller released his new record, Go Fly A Kite. I wanted to give Ben a little help getting the word out. So I used a new feature on Tumblr to create this: Yesterday our...
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Posted: Wednesday 8 February 2012
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Yesterday was payments day at USV. Two pretty big things that our firm has been involved in for a while now were coincidentally announced on the same day. First, our newest portfolio company Dwolla announced the closing of a round...
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Posted: Sunday 5 February 2012
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A few weeks ago, I spent the day at NYU ITP at the Womens Entrepreneurs Festival. This is a one day event put on by The Gotham Gal and her friend Nancy Hechinger who is on the faculty at NYU...
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Posted: Saturday 4 February 2012
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This is the kind of thing that happens in the age of the Internet and Kickstarter. My daughter Emily told me one of her friends was involved in opening an art gallery and they are using Kickstarter to raise the...
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