March 2008 Archives

• Structural Change and Marketplaces

  By Albert Wenger on March 26, 2008 9:58 AM | Comments

  There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back...

• Disqus

  By Fred Wilson on March 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Comments

  We are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rely on the New York Times for national news, Dow Jones or Bloomberg for business news,...

• TargetSpot Raises Series B Round

  By Fred Wilson on March 11, 2008 1:26 PM | Comments

  Last year, we helped get a company started called TargetSpot. TargetSpot is the first self serve ad network for streaming audio and internet radio. TargetSpot was built by our portfolio company Oddcast for CBS Radio and they eventually concluded it...

• New Fund - Same Focus

  By Brad Burnham on March 5, 2008 11:15 AM | Comments

  We closed on Union Square Ventures 2008 LP last week. Our new fund, at $156mm in capital ments, is large enough for us to be able to act on our conviction and to support our portfolio, but small enough to...