### Jan 30, 2018

Our USV Portfolio Network Team built a new offering last year called the USV Manager Bootcamp. [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/01/usv-manager-bootcamp/)

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### Jan 29, 2018

My friend Mark Mullen and his partner Jim Andelman are announcing a new VC firm in Southern California today. They call themselves Bonfire Ventures. I love how they describe themselves as “a low-volume, high-conviction, high-support investor.” [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/01/a-low-volume-high-conviction-high-support-investor/)

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### Jan 28, 2018

If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup [Read more](http://avc.com/2018/01/the-co-founder-relationship/)

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### Jan 27, 2018

I found this wide ranging interview quite interesting. Alex has been an entrepreneur and is now an investor. He is operating at the intersection of traditional fintech and crypto, which is a place USV also often occupies. [Read more](http://avc.com/2018/01/audio-of-the-week-a16zs-alex-rampell/)

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### Jan 25, 2018

Something I am a huge fan of is Board Feedback. I’ve written about this a lot here at AVC and I am writing about it again today. Because it is important and not done regularly in my experience. A founder/CEO [Read more](https://avc.com/2018/01/board-feedback-2/)

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### Jan 24, 2018

Last week I started getting lots of stories about Kendrick Lamar and SZA in my Google Now news feed on my phone. I thought to myself "why all of sudden does Google think I'm interested in Kendrick Lamar and SZA?" [Read more](http://avc.com/2018/01/explainability/)