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I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first is waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. The second is waking up early, like 4:30/5am, and being wide awake. So I’ve been working on those two things. I still wake up in the middle of t...
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I have written many times here that it is important to me that I control the platform that I publish on. I use the open-source WordPress software for my content management system and run that on a hosted server. I use my own domain, AVC.com, to locate my writings on the Internet. That has served me well. No matter how horrible I become, nobody is going to take me down. But we can go even further down this path of controlling our destiny. We can decentralize the entire thing; the content manag...
AVCOpen Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/ you select four investors (out of more than 100) that you want to meet 2/ you get up to four twenty minute meetings 3/ you discuss your idea with the investor in hopes of getting them interested enough to take anothe...
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AVCSleep
I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first is waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. The second is waking up early, like 4:30/5am, and being wide awake. So I’ve been working on those two things. I still wake up in the middle of t...
AVCMirror
I have written many times here that it is important to me that I control the platform that I publish on. I use the open-source WordPress software for my content management system and run that on a hosted server. I use my own domain, AVC.com, to locate my writings on the Internet. That has served me well. No matter how horrible I become, nobody is going to take me down. But we can go even further down this path of controlling our destiny. We can decentralize the entire thing; the content manag...
AVCOpen Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/ you select four investors (out of more than 100) that you want to meet 2/ you get up to four twenty minute meetings 3/ you discuss your idea with the investor in hopes of getting them interested enough to take anothe...
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Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about the other two in the coming weeks. These are token transactions denominated in ETH and ERC-20 assets with no other paperwork. All governance is done inside the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). In the case of Bright Moments, the DAO voted on our transaction over the weekend and approved it unanimously. This is a new world of business entity, governance, and a lot more that is exciting to USV and we plan to continue investing in it.
So what is Bright Moments? Well, it is a work in progress that is exploring the intersection of NFTs, real-world spaces, entertainment, and onboarding new crypto enthusiasts. Bright Moments started as a popup gallery in Venice Beach California where NFT artists drop/show new work and collectors buy it in real-time in a physical space. Then the Bright Moments DAO created an NFT series celebrating the local Venice Beach community called CryptoVenetians and minted 1000 of them, from sunrise to sunset and nighttime. These CryptoVenetians were given away to people who came to the Bright Moments Gallery with an Ethereum wallet on their phone. For many, this was the first time they installed and used an Ethereum wallet.
Next, Bright Moments is going to take this show on the road, starting with NYC this fall and then onto eight more cities around the world to get to a full collection of 10,000 NFTs. Last week Bright Moments auctioned off 200 tickets to the NYC gallery and they will give away the other 800.
We are interested in and excited by the intersection of the real world and the virtual world and we think Bright Moments has found an interesting model to bring new people into crypto in a fun and entertaining way. We are excited to support this effort and appreciate the Bright Moments community inviting us into the Bright Moments DAO.
Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about the other two in the coming weeks. These are token transactions denominated in ETH and ERC-20 assets with no other paperwork. All governance is done inside the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). In the case of Bright Moments, the DAO voted on our transaction over the weekend and approved it unanimously. This is a new world of business entity, governance, and a lot more that is exciting to USV and we plan to continue investing in it.
So what is Bright Moments? Well, it is a work in progress that is exploring the intersection of NFTs, real-world spaces, entertainment, and onboarding new crypto enthusiasts. Bright Moments started as a popup gallery in Venice Beach California where NFT artists drop/show new work and collectors buy it in real-time in a physical space. Then the Bright Moments DAO created an NFT series celebrating the local Venice Beach community called CryptoVenetians and minted 1000 of them, from sunrise to sunset and nighttime. These CryptoVenetians were given away to people who came to the Bright Moments Gallery with an Ethereum wallet on their phone. For many, this was the first time they installed and used an Ethereum wallet.
Next, Bright Moments is going to take this show on the road, starting with NYC this fall and then onto eight more cities around the world to get to a full collection of 10,000 NFTs. Last week Bright Moments auctioned off 200 tickets to the NYC gallery and they will give away the other 800.
We are interested in and excited by the intersection of the real world and the virtual world and we think Bright Moments has found an interesting model to bring new people into crypto in a fun and entertaining way. We are excited to support this effort and appreciate the Bright Moments community inviting us into the Bright Moments DAO.
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