Ive previously written about The $1k Project for Ukraine, which was launched by my friend, Alex Iskold, five days into the Russian aggression.  Since its inception, the project raised more than $10M and helped 10,000 families and 35,000 children. The AVC community has generously participated. Last week, Russia announced its withdrawal from Khe...

There has been so much written about the recent collapse of FTX and SBF and things are changing every day. I dont have much to add beyond what I am reading, mostly in shock. Thankfully I did not have exposure to this catastrophe happening, but of course the prices are down everywhere. I would rather …

The Gotham Gal and I just spent the last two weeks in Paris. We have been going to Paris together for around forty years and have had a place there for the last decade. It is a place we can go to get away from it all for a few weeks, connect with each other, […]

If you're a business owner in the UK, looking to sell your limited company, there are a few things you need to know. In this

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Achieving remarkability is a difficult and painful process. Were on a mission to make this challenge easier and faster. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Tom Peters. Tom is the co-author of In Search of Excellence. This isnt an over-statement: in the 1980s, The post Tom Peters: The Return ...

One of my favorite things about NFTs is that they contain a mechanism for the artist/creator to collect royalties on all of the sales that happen after the initial sale/mint. The creator specifies the royalty percentage when they initially mint the NFT and the NFT marketplaces/smart contracts collect the royalties on future sales and pay […]

Depending on the business structure, shareholders may be required to pay taxes on dividends. As a business owner, it's important to be aware of the

Upon the conclusion of a very tough week for U.S. consumer internet and technology stocks that saw over $550 billion of market value evaporated at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft (combined market value now sits at $6.64 trillion), coupled … Continue reading →

A dividend is a distribution of a company's earnings to its shareholders. Dividends are usually paid quarterly, but some companies pay them monthly or annually.

This is Remarkable People. We are on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Stan McChrystal is a retired four-star US Army general who served in the Army for 34 years. He was the commander of the US and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan. And he The post Stan McChrystal: Leadership for N...

I made my move at mile 22. I'd been trailing my nemesis for a dozen miles. The half-mile cutoff was 2:50, and I rolled through at 2:43, so I had plenty of room to spare, although, by this point, I'd given up on my goal of 5:30. My nemesis was wearing a red shirt. I […] The post NH Marathon (#26): The Ferocious Battle for Not Last Place appear...

Obviously, 3Q22 was a very difficult quarter in the capital markets. Of the 115 global stock, bond ETFs, currencies, and commodity indices tracked by the Wall Street Journal, only 13 of them showed gains, paced by the not surprising 24.7% … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Remarkable People podcast. Were on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Dolly Chugh. Dolly is a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. She teaches MBA courses in leadership and management. She is also a faculty member in the The post Dolly Chugh: How to Drive Social C...

I have enjoyed collecting NFT art over the last few years and I have very much wanted to display it in a physical space vs just having it online on a profile, like this one. So when we started designing the new USV offices last year we started thinking about NFT screens. We were inspired […]

My wife told me to get Gaby on this podcast after she read an article about Gaby in USA Today titled Mormon Mom of Six Writes Viral Twitter Thread Focusing on Male Responsibility in Pregnancy. The viral thread started with this tweet on September 13, 2018, at 3 pm and started like this: Im The post Gabrielle Blair: The Least a Man Can Do Is Ejacul...

I've always been a fan of preventive medicine. I like the idea of medicine that stops us from getting sick. As a child, I was vaccinated for all of the normal things, polio, whooping cough, etc in order to be able to go to school. Growing up I was vaccinated for tetanus and a few […]

A critical dimension to the staffing model at Flare Capital is our deep bench of Executive Partners. These people are notable operating executives who have a record a tremendous success in scaling businesses in times of industry transformation. Our Executive … Continue reading →

In June of this year I made a quick five day trip to Rome for a set of meetings. It's been years since I've been to Italy and even longer since visiting Rome. And I just loved every moment. The people, the language, the food and the Italian spirt on every street and every interaction. […]

Since Matt Levine is so effectively covering anything interesting in the world of the Twitter deal (and all kinds of bizarre, random, and complicated crypto, fraud, debt, and other financial stuff), I think I'll stick with book reviews for the time being. Andy Dunn, who I only know indirectly, wrote an important book titled Burn […] The post ...

When starting a business in the UK, you will need to choose a business structure. The most common types of business structures are sole proprietorships,

In the spring of 2014, I walked across the street from our apartment building to our parking garage to get our car and drive somewhere. I can't recall where I was headed that morning. But as I walked into the garage, I saw two EV charging kiosks had been installed in our parking garage. I […]

I read about Min Kym in Susan Cains book, Bittersweet. The story of her relationship to her 1696 Stradivarius was so remarkable and fascinating that I had to bring it to you. Have you ever bonded with an object? A camera, car, surfboard, or in Mins case, a musical instrument that completes you or The post Min Kym: A Music Prodigy's Inside Story ap...

At USV, our climate thesis is about both mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis. One way we can adapt to the climate crisis is by building a more resilient energy supply system. Demand Response is one of many approaches that will be necessary to do that. Demand Response is when consumers of energy voluntarily […]

While over $142 billion is spent annually on dental care in the U.S., many only really think of dentistry when in the exam chair and yet there are many exciting developments to chew on. The last 20 years witnessed a … Continue reading →

A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders. Dividends can be in the form of cash or shares of stock,

Nuclear power (both fission and fusion) has the potential to provide much of the energy the world needs without the damaging effects of carbon emissions which are warming our planet. And yet nuclear power is politically unpopular in many parts of the world and that has led to a massive underinvestment in nuclear power over […]

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. The market was down considerably with public valuations down 5379% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further).==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner Im thrille...

I've always been interested in tapping into the "crowd" to fund things that need to happen and that our current institutions can't figure out how to support. Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. In the last thirteen years, Kickstarter has helped direct $6.2bn towards creative work that would […]...

Dividends are payments made by companies to their shareholders out of profits. Why do companies pay dividends? There are several reasons, but the most common

David Cohen and I have co-hosted the Give First podcast for 71 episodes. I think our host ratio is 80/20 David/Brad, and he's covered everything in 2021 because I was burned out on all things public-facing and needed a break. He figured a good way to get me back in the mix would be to […] The post Talking About Entrepreneurship and Mental Hea...

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We are on a mission to make you remarkable. Todays remarkable guest is Cassie Holmes. She is an award-winning professor at UCLAs Anderson School of Management. Cassie has a Ph.D. from Stanford Universitys Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia University. Her work has The post Cassie Ho...

I got the following email from Barry Schuler this morning. We've known each other for many years, and he's one of my favorite VCs to work with. He described exactly how I feel this morning. The fall is my favorite season of the year. By labor day, I'm ready for summer to end. The stretch […] The post Back to School appeared first on Brad Feld...

It is remarkable how chill the Italians can be I was reminded of that yet again a few weeks ago when I was over there. Amidst continued and extraordinary political turmoil and a looming national election on September 25, … Continue reading →

Today's remarkable guest is Fran Hauser. She is passionate about leveling the playing field for women and showing people how to combine niceness and power.Fran was the president of Digital atTime, Inc.There, she led innovation, acquisitions, and digital expansion forPeople,In Style,Entertainment Weekly, andEssence. Fran currently helps fund and adv...

There have been many different approaches to ranking VC Firms over the years I've been an entrepreneur and a VC. Each approach I've seen has issues. Most are easily gamed or have statistical bias issues. I got the following note from Roy Bahat at Bloomberg Beta a while ago about a new approach called Founder's […] The post Founder's Choice VC...

We like to do a lot of deep dives at USV. We pick areas that we think will present interesting investment opportunities over the next five to ten years and then spend time researching them. We like to talk to lots of experts, academics, investors, entrepreneurs, and industry. We generally spend a few months on […]

Registration for the Venture Deals Fall 2022 course is open. The course is free and starts on September 20, 2022. This is the second time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. If interested, sign up now. I hope to see you there in […] The post Venture Deals Fall 2022 appear...

Joe Hovde wrote a blog post about AVC last week. He analyzed all of the blog posts on AVC to find trends and other interesting tidbits. He charted the number of posts a month I have written here over the last nineteen years. He observed: he treated the blog similarly to a twitter account before […]

Audrey Arbeeny is a pioneer of sonic branding. She has been the Music Supervisor for NBCs coverage for the last seven Olympic games. In fact, shes won two Emmys for her work with NBC. She has also created the familiar sounds people hear when they are customers of Google, Microsoft, Whirlpool, KitchenAid, and McDonalds. The post Audrey Arbeeny: Bra...

In about a month, an important moment will happen in the world of crypto/web3. The Ethereum blockchain will move from a proof of work consensus mechanism to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. This event is known as "The Merge" in Ethereum land. There are many reasons why this is an important moment for the […]

The numbers are staggering. An estimated twelve million Americans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 37% of whom are considered to have severe symptoms. At some point in our … Continue reading →