A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 12, 2023
L’Appartement 4F Land To Sea There is a new wrinkle in crowdfunding restaurants, bars, coffee shops, bakeries, etc courtesy of USV portfolio company Blackbird, which I recently wrote about. Although Blackbird did not imagine its platform being used for crowdfunding, operators have started to use it that way.
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 22, 2025
You've made it Amazon's Number 1 best seller in the investment portfolio management category. Over eight years, the biggest things that have changed are that we stopped using crowdfunding. Jamey Stegmaier: Really, I'm glad you said it that way, because it isn't a knock on crowdfunding or Kickstarter. I really appreciate that.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 18, 2020
Enter Kickstarter , the crowdfunding platform for bringing creative projects to life (and a USV portfolio company). Music venues, movie theaters, art galleries, restaurants, performance spaces, maker spaces, conferences, festivals, and bookshops are the places we hang out in, enjoy each other, and and connect to art and culture.
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The debt crowdfunding movement links private lenders with private borrowers, cutting out the middleman of a bank or credit union. For long-term savings, however, savers should consider investing in a well-diversified, risk-appropriate portfolio of stocks and/or bonds.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JANUARY 12, 2022
Last month our portfolio company Kickstarter announced the creation of a protocol organization that will develop a web3 protocol for the crowdfunding of creative projects. They are now assembling a protocol team and are talking to candidates to lead that effort.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 8, 2013
I know I''m paid to take risk and to make a commensurate return for taking that risk, but every moment of struggle from any one of my portfolio companies is like death by 1000 cuts multiplied by all of the individual investors in my fund. You can''t crowdfund a fund. 4) Most of the job isn''t in the picking, it''s in the struggling.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 28, 2019
One of the crypto projects that the SEC has been investigating, where I have had a front-row seat, is the Kin project that was birthed by USV’s portfolio company Kik , where I am on the Board. So today, Kin has launched DefendCrypto.org which is a crowdfunding effort to fight the SEC in court. You can do so here.
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