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The Opportunity Fund

We founded Union Square Ventures in 2003 to invest in the applications layer of the web. Over the last seven years, we have refined that investment focus. We now invest almost exclusively in Internet services that create large networks. Some [...]  Read more

SoundCloud

The web has been largely a silent affair for its first fifteen years. Part of this is that the music industry has struggled with the web and what it means for its business model. Part of it is that podcasting [...]  Read more

RSS Continued

This is a followup post from yesterday's one on RSS. Two things I want to add. There is now an RSS feed just for MBA Mondays. It is available in the AVC RSS page. But for all of you who [...]  Read more

Selling Your Company

It is Monday so it is time for another MBA Mondays post. We are a few weeks into a series on mergers and acquisitions. The first week we covered the basics of mergers and acquisitions. Last week we talked about [...]  Read more

The MBA Mondays Curriculum

I've gotten a number of suggestions about turning MBA Mondays (including the amazing comments from all of you) into a textbook. That's not going to happen. I don't want to publish these MBA posts in yesterday's technology. I want to [...]  Read more

Buying and Selling Assets

MBA Mondays are back after a week hiatus. We are several posts into a series on Merger and Acquisitions. In our last post, we talked about the key characteristics of mergers and acquisitions. And we touched on the two kinds [...]  Read more

Employee Equity: How Much?

The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. I am going to try to address that question in [...]  Read more

Employee Equity: Vesting

We had a bunch of questions about vesting in the comments to last week’s MBA Mondays post. So this post is going to be about vesting. Vesting is the technique used to allow employees to earn their equity over time. [...]  Read more

Employee Equity: Vesting

We had a bunch of questions about vesting in the comments to last week’s MBA Mondays post. So this post is going to be about vesting. Vesting is the technique used to allow employees to earn their equity over time. [...]  Read more