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Union Square Sessions 1 – Peer Production
Charlie O'Donnell – Oct 20, 2005
Today we hosted the first of what we hope will be many conversations about the impact of information technology on our society, our economy and on the business of venture capital. The subject of this "session" was peer production. We [...] Read more
Management Case, Base Case and Worst Case
Fred Wilson – Oct 20, 2005
Early stage venture capital investing is not really a numbers oriented business.Its much more important to have a feel for technology, markets, and people than numbers.But there are times when numbers are important.Two of the most important times you want [...] Read more
Metrics
Fred Wilson – Oct 15, 2005
We like to make our initial investment sometime between the formation of a business and the first dollar of revenue coming in the door. Sometimes that time period lasts a while. In the interim, how do you monitor how an [...] Read more
Web Services are different
Brad Burnham – Oct 13, 2005
We are true believers in the potential of the web. Over the last year, we have seen a number of lightweight web services that could be the foundation for large and valuable businesses. Many of these services appear to be [...] Read more
Hello World
Brad Burnham – Oct 12, 2005
Anyone who has been to our site before will notice a very different look and feel today. When we launched Union Square Ventures last year, we put up a web site that described who we were, how we saw the [...] Read more
Founders
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2005
I just finished John Battelle's The Search.It's a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and the internet.One of the things I that I enjoyed most in the book was John's comparison [...] Read more