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USV Thesis 2.0
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2015
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...] Read more
No Stack Startups
Andy Weissman – May 6, 2015
One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promote content; (3) distribution; (4) figure out the best user interface or experience for its [...] Read more
Changing Metaphors
Andy Weissman – Apr 10, 2015
"Photograph - all I've got is a photograph. But it's not enough" Def Leppard Wikipedia tells us that the word "photograph" derives from the Greek words phos and graphê, together meaning "drawing with light." I suppose that for a hundred [...] Read more
The Chaos Theory Of Startups
Andy Weissman – Feb 13, 2015
I was flying from NY to SF the other day and at one point the gentleman I was sitting next to asked me if I was flying towards or away from home. I told him NYC was my home and [...] Read more
Looking More Closely
Andy Weissman – Nov 20, 2014
I was talking when I should have been listening - Grant Hart As venture investors, we look at our investments and investment strategy continuously at a macro level. Questions like: how much are we investing and how fast? How does [...] Read more
Experience
Andy Weissman – Aug 13, 2014
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung - Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in [...] Read more
Figure 1
Andy Weissman – Aug 6, 2014
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At [...] Read more
Sometimes wrong
Andy Weissman – Jul 15, 2014
"I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong" About seven years ago I came across an online music service that, instead of charging fixed fees for the digital files (there was no streaming back then), instead used a formula [...] Read more
Amino
Andy Weissman – Jul 8, 2014
Communities have long been an integral part of the Internet, online places where people can connect and share their passions and interests. And communities can have great network dynamics, where they increase in value as participants join and share more. [...] Read more