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Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders
Albert Wenger – Aug 7, 2007
So you start a web service with some friends. They do the programming. You do everything else. Suddenly the service takes off. You are thrilled and getting ready to pop open the bubbly. But then things start to sputter as [...] Read more
Fred Wilson – Jul 25, 2007
The Internet is largely a communications medium. It's also used for content distribution, commerce, and a number of other things. But the thing I do most on the Internet is communicate. Via email, Skype, instant messaging, blogging, commenting, and twittering. [...] Read more
AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA
Brad Burnham – Jul 23, 2007
We are pleased to announce today that AOL/Time Warner has agreed to buy our portfolio company TACODA. As is always the case with a company you have worked with for years, our excitement for the founders and management team about [...] Read more
Clickable
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2007
Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner [...] Read more
Introducing Albert Wenger
Fred Wilson – Jun 25, 2007
We actually don't need to introduce Albert Wenger to many of you who are involved with Union Square Ventures on a regular basis. Albert was the President of del.icio.us and is on the Board of Etsy. He's been at most, [...] Read more
Wesabe Is More Than A “Personal” Financial Service
Brad Burnham – Jun 20, 2007
Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much happens. Writely [...] Read more