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Our portfolio company Cloudflare announced a consumer DNS service (a resolver) yesterday. It was not an April Fools stunt. If you want to use the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS...

Funding Friday: Make 100

Like last year, our portfolio company Kickstarter is starting the new year off with a Make 100 campaign. The idea is simple. Make 100 of something and fund it on...

Video Of The Week: Token 1.0 vs Token 2.0

AVC community member William Mougayar sent me a video of a talk he recently gave in Moscow. I really like the framework he articulates about half way through the talk...

September 11th - A Day Of Remembrance

I have written a lot about September 11th on this blog over the years. I started AVC a couple years post 9/11, while I was and NY was still very...

Scratch's 10th Anniversary

The Scratch programming language and community is ten years old and we celebrated that last night at a gala in NYC where the Scratch Foundation raised funds to support their...

10,000 Commercial Drone Flights

Two years ago, on January 30th, 2015, Dronebase founder Dan Burton flew a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drone over a quarry in southern Orange County California and captured a TNT explosion...

Funding Friday: make/100

Our portfolio company Kickstarter has opened up the year with a challenge; launch a project in January in which you make 100 of something. It is called make/100. Here are...

11 Years of the USV Investment Team

As part of the hiring process for our two year analyst position, we asked everyone who has worked at USV in an investment team role to make a two minute...

Flashback: The Lycos NYC Office in 1995

I was taking the subway uptown yesterday afternoon and as I stepped out of the train I thought I saw the word Lycos on the advertisement on the station wall....