## Aug 10, 2020

Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money. My response to that is “let’s do a priced round, we can use a standard financing form we both like, we won’t use  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/financing-document-forms/)

## Aug 7, 2020

I’ve written about the need for smaller form factor smartphones and know a bunch of people who are frustrated by the lack of choice in small form factor smartphones. So I was interested to see this Kickstarter project to bring  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/funding-friday-jelly2/)

## Aug 6, 2020

One of the questions I hear on crypto is “what can I do with it besides trade it?” And that’s a good question because truth be told, there have not been great use cases for crypto other than storing value,  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/nba-top-shot-2/)

## Aug 5, 2020

I got this question yesterday and answered via email and thought I’d share that discussion with all of you: I enjoyed your article on [Board Diversity](https://avc.com/2020/06/board-diversity/) and am planning to implement it at my company. I was hoping  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/independent-director-compensation/)

## Aug 4, 2020

We are now approaching five months into the Covid pandemic in the US. The world is more like six or seven months in. And while we wait for vaccines and/or therapeutics to end it, we are left with social distancing,  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/instant-covid-tests/)

## Aug 3, 2020

We are officially in the dog days of summer when vacations and the heat and humidity cause things to slow down. It used to be true that companies would put financing efforts on hold in late July and August and [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/the-dog-days-of-summer/)

## Jul 31, 2020

Playing cards and listening to the blues is the perfect combo and this deck of cards celebrates that. I backed this project immediately when I saw it this morning. It has five days to go and is 70% of the  [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/07/funding-friday-the-last-fair-deal/)

## Jul 30, 2020

I was in a board meeting for most of yesterday so I did not watch the theatrics on Capitol Hill. William told me that there were many calls for breaking up the big tech companies. So I thought I would [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/07/repost-open-up-vs-break-up/)

## Jul 29, 2020

Crypto has been on a tear in the last week. Bitcoin is up 18% in the last seven days: Ethereum is up over 30% in the last week: But this isn’t the first time we’ve had a bullish run in [Read more](https://avc.com/2020/07/is-this-one-for-real/)