Writing

Since we posted about hiring on Monday, we have received well over 400 applications. Based on a first pass we are completely blown away by the diversity and level of talent! Unfortunately, we don't stand a chance of giving these [...]  Read more

It's Spring in New York. The pear trees and magnolias are in full bloom and everyone on the street is smiling, reminded again of irrepressible rhythm of the seasons.That's the good news. The bad news is that another rhythm that [...]  Read more

As of a few minutes ago we have closed Jobscore for new candidates for our two open positions. We are excited about the incredible response, but ask for your patience as we dig through over 600 applications. Our plan is [...]  Read more

Four years ago this summer, Andrew Parker joined Union Square Ventures. Brad wrote this post welcoming Andrew to our firm and explaining how we found him through his blog and ours.And today I get the task of announcing that Andrew [...]  Read more

I am an unabashed Star Trek fan and was thrilled to see JJ Abrams breath new life into the franchise. The original series popularized some technologies that seemed, well, futuristic. But amazingly we now have one of them and are [...]  Read more

Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We'd both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very different opinions about how to do it. Nathan believes the patent system is the [...]  Read more