Another one bites the dust. AVNStars shutting down payments.

AVN Stars will stop paying sex workers for their content starting Jan. 1

The company announced this week that monetization will no longer be available after December 31 due to “banking discrimination.”

Hard Forks - AVC

The crypto-currency Ethereum completed a hard fork on Wednesday. The Ethereum core developers, after getting a vote of support from the Ethereum community, hard forked Ethereum to “get back” the roughly $40mm of Ethereum that was taken in the hack of The DAO. Hard forks are a bit of a lightning rod issue in the […]

We have killed the technical debt - Alex's Blog

Big day for docs 🙂🙂

A Different Approach To VC - AVC

I wrote this to my partner the other day. I’m not going to provide the context. It doesn’t matter. It could have been about almost anything in the startup sector right now. “the biggest thing that is wrong with the startup sector right now is entrepreneurs and their teams are too focused on valuation and […]

Introducing Exciting New Tools from Ceros: Farewell to Avocode Products

Here at Ceros, we're no good at goodbyes. But one thing we've always excelled at? Embracing new beginnings and creating awesome new solutions. That's why we're kicking off a new era of tools crafted just for you:

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding

Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Side Projects - AVC

Back when we started USV in 2003/2004, we used to see a lot of side projects that had taken off and were turning into companies. We funded at least one such side project, Delicious, which ended up getting sold to Yahoo! a few years later. But I remember that we would see one or two […]

Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It to Stop Paying Sex Workers

AVN Stars announced on Wednesday that it would end monetized content on the site, citing banking discrimination.

Archival Selves

What happens when you pay off all your intention debts?

Software company plans to pay tens of millions in ransom to hackers who crippled car dealerships across North America | Fortune

Since CDK discovered the breach and shut off systems on June 19, chaos has ensued at many of the roughly 15,000 car dealerships that it counts as clients.

Pocketstars: The creator site where payments don’t always happen

With the influx of creator sites such as Onlyfans, rivals have been popping up everywhere. However, all are not equal and it’s vital that…