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What Else Are You Interested In?
Fred Wilson – May 23, 2006
Our portfolio company, TACODA, is the leader in behavioral targeting. They are working with publishers all over the Internet. They identify what users are interested in using a "data tag" on the publisher's page and then use that data to [...] Read more
Advertising to Job Seekers
Fred Wilson – May 14, 2006
Our portfolio company, Indeed.com, has announced the commercial availability of a cost per click (CPC) advertising system targeting job seekers.What that means is that advertisers now have a way to reach job seekers directly and pay for those ads on [...] Read more
Introducing Bug Labs
Brad Burnham – May 9, 2006
The two things we respect most in an entrepreneur are experience and passion. In entrepreneurship, as in life, they do not always go together. So we are thrilled to be working with Peter Semmelhack, the founder of Bug Labs, our [...] Read more
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