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Etsy’s New Financing And What They Are Going To Do With It
Fred Wilson – Jan 30, 2008
Last week Union Square Ventures participated in a Series D round for Etsy. We have participated in every round of financing for the company and pleased to have been able to invest in such an exciting opportunity.CEO Rob Kalin outlines [...] Read more
Simplicity = utility
Andy Weissman – Jan 30, 2008
Marco built (well, released) something called Instapaper the other day which allows one to save web articles to read later.Its goal is simple (save to read later), its functionality is simple (click the read later button/bookmarket) and its design is [...] Read more
Zynga Game Network
Fred Wilson – Jan 15, 2008
In the middle of last year my friend Mark Pincus stopped by my office to tell me what he'd been up to. Facebook apps it turned out, of course. He said, "Fred, by this time next year, everything you invest [...] Read more
Media Physics
Andy Weissman – Jan 7, 2008
Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity through the creation of:" . . . a loosely-coupled value chain including users as value creators. The value chain is not owned by a [...] Read more