## Recent Posts

### Jan 6, 2019
Joel Monegro, who is one of the Partners at Placeholder and a former USV analyst, has written an important post that outlines the relationships between the three primary stakeholders in a cryptonetwork; users, miners/validators, and investors. Joel calls it [stakeholders in a cryptonetwork](https://avc.com/2019/01/stakeholders-in-a-cryptonetwork/).

### Jan 5, 2019
Flip is a USV portfolio company. They provide a suite of services to renters that allow them to easily flip out of leases and move when they need to with the cooperation of landlords. Before Flip was a USV portfolio [company](https://avc.com/2019/01/audio-of-the-week-flips-susannah-vila/).

### Jan 3, 2019
As many of you know, I have been spending a fair bit of my time on K12 Computer Science Education over the last decade. The good news is that over that time period, there has been massive progress in getting [students involved](https://avc.com/2019/01/scratch-3/).

### Jan 2, 2019
As is always the case, I got a lot of feedback on yesterday’s predictions post. Most of it was constructive. Some of it was fawning (yuck), and some of it was snickering. That’s how it goes when [you take a stance](https://avc.com/2019/01/taking-a-stance/).

### Jan 1, 2019
Hi Everyone. Happy 2019. Today, as is my custom on the first day of the new year, I am going to take a stab at what the year ahead will bring. I find it useful to think about [what is going to happen in 2019](https://avc.com/2019/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2019/).

### Dec 31, 2018
Continuing the year end theme, it is time for my annual recap of what happened this year, to be followed by a look forward tomorrow on the first day of the new year. Last year I was not particularly confident [about 2018](https://avc.com/2018/12/what-happened-in-2018/).

### Dec 30, 2018
As is my tradition as the end of the year nears, here are the songs that stayed with me in 2018. It is a mix of songs everyone knows, like the marvelous All The Stars from the Black Panther soundtrack [songs that stayed with me](https://avc.com/2018/12/songs-that-stayed-with-me-in-2018/).

### Dec 29, 2018
My partner Brad Burnham recently went on Jason Calacanis ‘ This Week In Startups. It is a longish (just over an hour) conversation and they cover a lot of territory. [Video of the week: Brad Burnham](https://avc.com/2018/12/video-of-the-week-brad-burnham-on-this-week-in-startups/).

### Dec 28, 2018
At the tail end of the post that I wrote on how USV (me in particular) missed the first round for Airbnb, I wrote: We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what [we missed](https://avc.com/2018/12/missing-the-forest-through-the-trees/).