In 2018, it seems like every investor and entrepreneur is talking about blockchain, crypto-assets, and ICOs. What do those concepts really mean? Where are we in the technology development cycle? And how will our industry evolve? Much of the 2018 Upfront Summit was dedicated to discussions about this new computing…

This piece was originally published by Mark Suster on Both Sides of the Table. “The institution of a free press in America is in a state of crisis greater than I have ever seen in my lifetime, and perhaps in any moment in this nation’s history.” — Dan Rather I…

Consider a category with 200M daily users globally and more than two hours average daily engagement. It’s safe to say that most investors would be intrigued. (For comparison, Netflix has 93M members globally, of whom an estimated 20–40% stream daily.) …

This piece was originally published by Mark Suster on Both Sides of the Table. Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall, entitled “WTF Happened to Winter?” The conclusion of our report was that winter did come, but it was mild and short…

In case it’s unclear, Upfront Ventures is #LongLA. At this year’s Upfront Summit, we were proud to convene a global group of investors, entrepreneurs, executives and thinkers to showcase the talent, innovation, and creativity we experience every day in Los Angeles. And there could be no better champion of LA’s…

What if there was a pool of proven but untapped entrepreneurial talent and hustle that no investor had yet leveraged? What if $500 was the only seed money needed to give one of these entrepreneurs their start? What if that $500 investment generated a social return on investment of 294x? …

Every year at the Upfront Summit, we gather more than 800 investors, entrepreneurs, and tech executives to engage with the topics critical to our industry. This year, in addition to discussions about VC, investing, and startups, we tackled wide-ranging issues from building effective VC firms to mass incarceration, from the…

[This was written and originally posted by Mark Suster.] Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 …

[This piece was originally published by Mark Suster in BothSidesoftheTable.com]. Today it has been announced that I’m leading a $15 million funding round in Tact, a new generation of Enterprise Software company along with other investors including Microsoft Ventures and previous investors Accel and Redpoint Rather than just waxing lyrically…