### Jun 1, 2017

The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet: The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised 30 million dollars in 24 seconds. VC's didn't even have time [...]  [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/06/icos-and-vcs/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 31, 2017

William and I did the wrap-up at the end of Token Summit. Here is the video of it: And here is CNBC’s take on it. I’d love to know if you all think she captured my views accurately. I [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/the-token-summit-talk-between-me-and-william/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 30, 2017

I have had this book, A Man For All Markets, on my kindle for the past year. I can’t recall who recommended it, possibly my friend Jeremy, but I can’t be sure. A couple weeks ago, I had [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/a-man-for-all-markets/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 29, 2017

Our friends Balaji and Naval penned a really nice primer on crypto-tokens. AVC readers have been hearing me talk about this new form of business model and fund raising mechanism for a while now and so it won’t be new to [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/tokens/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 27, 2017

Our portfolio Kik announced last week that they plan to decentralize their messenger app and monetize via a cryptocurrency called Kin. Here’s a video they put together explaining how it will work and why it is important: [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/video-of-the-week-what-is-kin/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 14, 2017

Over the last few weeks, I've been playing around with a digital asset collecting game called Rare Pepe. My partner Andy tipped me off to it a while back and it took me a while to wade into it. Rare [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/rare-pepe/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### May 1, 2017

The Venture Capital business is full of great firms that were founded by entrepreneurs/operators who became investors mid/late career. From Gene Kleiner and Tom Perkins in the early 70s to Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at the end of the [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/05/investor-vcs-and-operator-vcs/)

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[Fred Wilson](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html)

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### Mar 22, 2017

I've told bits and pieces of this story here on AVC over the years but I don't think I've ever told the whole story. Y Combinator (YC) Demo Day has been going on over the past few days up in [...] [Read more](http://avc.com/2017/03/the-disqus-demo-day-story/)