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On Influence
Fred Wilson – May 8, 2006
New York Magazine’s cover story this week is on the “Influentials”. It was nice to see the name of our 18 month old venture capital firm on the list as we’ve been working hard to influence the direction of technology [...] Read more
User Tagging Is Fundamental
Fred Wilson – May 3, 2006
Earlier this week a fact checker from New York Magazine called me to ask a few questions about Union Square Ventures. Apparently we are in the next issue in a story about influential technology people in NYC.She read me a [...] Read more
A Stray Thought on the Micro-chunking of Media
Brad Burnham – May 2, 2006
This is one of those blindingly obvious revelations that make you feel a little dumb in retrospect. It occurred to me over the weekend, as I leafed through the Economist's special section on new media that, it is impossible for [...] Read more
Why has the flow of technology reversed?
Brad Burnham – Apr 14, 2006
Esther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an interesting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors who,. like us, are on the look out for [...] Read more
Taking Web Services To The Office
Fred Wilson – Apr 13, 2006
Most of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the customer. We call them consumer facing web services in our [...] Read more
Yes but….
Brad Burnham – Mar 26, 2006
In our first "hello world" post on this blog, we made the point that the market we operate in is one of the most dynamic markets anywhere. We concluded that it made little sense to have a static investment strategy [...] Read more