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USV Analyst 2.0 avc.xyz/usv-analyst-20

USV Analyst 2.0

A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and wrote this post about all of that before departing to do...

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Create Your Own Currency With Flipcash avc.xyz/create-your-own-curr…

Create Your Own Currency With Flipcash

Our portfolio company Flipcash shipped a product last month that does something pretty interesting. It takes a little bit from three well-understood crypto concepts and combines them into something...

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7 Aug 2025

A fantastic opportunity for a builder who wants to work at the intersection of technology and startups avc.xyz/leading-usvs-ai-tran…

Leading USV's AI Transformation

USV posted yesterday that we are looking to hire a builder who can lead our transformation into an AI-native venture capital firm. Here are the key paragraphs from that post:You’ll be the builder-i...

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11 Feb 2025

Frame122:Sustainable Family Living in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Brooklyn avc.xyz/frame122

Frame122

The Gotham Gal and I have completed another of our sustainable apartment buildings we make for families that live in Brooklyn. We call the building Frame122 and it is located at 122 Waverly Avenue,...

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If you are looking for an awesome place to work remotely in Brooklyn, read this avc.xyz/framework-at-the-ref…

Framework At The Refinery

Back during COVID, the Gotham Gal and I, along with the team in our family office, debuted our "sustainable" apartment building development business in Brooklyn, called Frame Home. We had two small...

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1 Jan 2025

What Will Happen In 2025 avc.xyz/what-will-happen-in-…

What Will Happen In 2025

I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20 years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus...

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What Happened In 2024 avc.xyz/what-happened-in-202…

What Happened In 2024

I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of...

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Leon's avc.xyz/leons

Leon's

I have always been a big fan of breakfast, lunch and dinner business meetings. There is something about breaking bread over a meeting, or a glass of wine or beer or a cup of coffee. The ideal...

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5 Nov 2024

Former lawyers avc.xyz/former-lawyers

Former Lawyers

I have worked with many former lawyers in my career and my experience with them has always been fantastic. The first former lawyer I worked with was Milt Pappas who, along with his partner Bliss...

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25 Oct 2024

My Supplement Stack avc.xyz/my-supplement-stack

My Supplement Stack

For many years, I took a multivitamin every morning and that was it. Then maybe five years ago, during my annual physical, my doctor told me I was "very vitamin B deficient." That led to a month or...

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17 Oct 2024

Network Density avc.xyz/network-density

Network Density

I have written a bit about our portfolio company Blackbird but in case you didn't read any of those posts, Blackbird is a loyalty and payment network for the hospitality sector. You earn Fly and you...

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8 Oct 2024

Twelve Days In Korea and Japan avc.xyz/twelve-days-in-korea…

Twelve Days In Korea and Japan

When I woke up on Friday, September 27th, the first thing I did was put on an out-of-office notification on my email. That felt so damn good. It meant that for the next twelve days, I was dialing...

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20 Sep 2024

Vitalik: An Ethereum Story avc.xyz/vitalik-an-ethereum-…

Vitalik: An Ethereum Story

When you think of founders who have been massively successful in bringing new and novel technologies and companies to market, you don't normally think of a nomad who has been living out of a single...

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13 Sep 2024

Code Tip Cards avc.xyz/code-tip-cards

Code Tip Cards

Code is a mobile app built onchain that allows anyone to send anyone else money anywhere in the world and it is entirely self custodial. Code uses the Kin token that came out of the Kik mobile...

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11 Sep 2024

Startup Mortality Rates avc.xyz/startup-mortality-ra…

Startup Mortality Rates

A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups a...

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30 Aug 2024

Reserves, Recycling, and Returns avc.xyz/reserves,-recycling,…

Reserves, Recycling, and Returns

A lot of folks who are new to the venture capital business and are building their own firms and funds will email or message me about rese...

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23 Aug 2024

A great way to showcase digital art avc.xyz/viewart

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13 Aug 2024

Some thoughts on attending the Paris 2024 Olympics avc.xyz/paris-2024-olympics

Paris 2024 Olympics

I took the last two and a half weeks off from work and blogging (and a lot more) and attended the 2024 Paris Olympics with much of our fa...

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25 Jul 2024

Avoiding Account Takeovers avc.xyz/avoiding-account-tak…

Avoiding Account Takeovers

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successf...

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9 Jul 2024

Board Meeting Suggestions avc.xyz/board-meeting-sugges…

Board Meeting Suggestions

I wrote the email below to a founder doing his first board meeting. Board meetings can provide a leadership team with a perspective on the business t...

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