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Twitter Raises A Second Round Of Funding
Fred Wilson – Jun 24, 2008
Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that they have closed a second round of financing, led by Spark Capital and including Jeff Bezos' investment entity Bezos Expeditions. Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage, another existing investor, also participated in the [...] Read more
Internet for Everyone
Brad Burnham – Jun 24, 2008
This morning Union Square Ventures endorsed an initiative called Internet for Everyone. This group does not sponsor specific policies or legislation. Rather, it hopes to build broad popular support for a few basic principles, that hopefully will guide policy choices [...] Read more
Call for Topics
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2008
Charlie O'Donnell and I will be moderating a three hour startup workshop at NYC Web 2.0 Expo in September. There is a lot we could talk about from getting started to hiring to fundraising. But rather than just pick the [...] Read more
Placetweeting
Andy Weissman – Jun 17, 2008
Screw all manner of betaworks' objectivity, this is pretty cool - John Geraci:Don’t have time to start a placeblog? Neither do I. But now, thanks to outside.in Radar, Twitter and Summize, we can placetweet. Placetweeting? I’ve got time for that. [...] Read more
The Velocity of Data
Andy Weissman – Jun 11, 2008
While eating Chicken Adobo at Cendrillion every other day for the past 6 months, we talk constantly about the value of data - how can an application or a technology create value to an existing or new group of users [...] Read more
And Then There Were Five
Fred Wilson – Jun 10, 2008
Back in February, we posted here that we were looking to hire an analyst. We asked anyone who was interested in the position to leave a comment. We received 164 comments and then worked through all of them to find [...] Read more
The Weird Economics of Information
Brad Burnham – Jun 2, 2008
Several months ago I ventured into the spooky economics of information with a post that suggested that data had an increasing marginal utility. A number of folks like Albert, who know a whole lot more about economics than I do, [...] Read more