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Andy Weissman – Oct 20, 2011
For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I'm excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined [...] Read more
Duck Duck Go
Brad Burnham – Oct 13, 2011
When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line "sure it's cool but what the heck do [...] Read more
Analyst hiring update
Christina Cacioppo – Oct 7, 2011
A reminder we're closing applications for the investment analyst position at 6pm Eastern time Thursday, Oct. 13. After applications close, we'll review each one before beginning to reach out and schedule meetings. We will respond to all who apply.We're asking [...] Read more
We’re hiring
Christina Cacioppo – Sep 28, 2011
Union Square Ventures has a long history - in internet time at least - of hiring off this blog (posts here, here, and here.) A fundamental assumption of the way we've hired is that we're able to get to know [...] Read more
Turntable
Fred Wilson – Sep 13, 2011
Sometimes you end up loving something you don't want to. When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login button that I didn't want to use. There was another music service I didn't want to add [...] Read more
Wattpad
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2011
Stories have been with us probably as long as language has, and the need for stories appears deeply rooted in all of us. We have come a long way from quite literally sitting around a fire to sophisticated technologies such [...] Read more