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A Comment on Comments
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2010
Yesterday was a fertile day for comments on comments: John Gruber, Bijan Sabet and then Marco Arment all provided interesting food for thought. For starters, I firmly believe that what someone chooses to do on their own blog is and [...] Read more
Twilio Announces OpenVBX
Albert Wenger – Jun 15, 2010
The amazing team at our portfolio company Twilio has done it again: taken something that was previously complicated and made it super simple. This time they set their sights on business telephone systems (formerly known as PBXs, which – if [...] Read more
Work Market
Fred Wilson – Jun 14, 2010
We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the most potential of all is the labor market.So we are excited to announce [...] Read more
Attention: Attention
Albert Wenger – Jun 14, 2010
There are certain topics that periodically rear their heads, such as privacy. The one that is on my mind this morning is attention. I don’t know whether there really is a deep attention crisis, but my own anecdotal evidence suggests [...] Read more
Web Services as Governments
Brad Burnham – Jun 10, 2010
This spring Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, made controversial announcements. Apple announced the terms of service for the iPhone OS 4, that restricted how applications developers could use analytics data. Facebook launched Facebook Credits, and a completely different privacy policy. And [...] Read more
Motivating Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jun 9, 2010
I am a huge fan of Dan Ariely’s writing because I believe it makes behavioral economics relevant to every day business decision making. I have just finished the first two chapters of his new book “The Upside of Irrationality” and [...] Read more
A new member of the USV team
Christina Cacioppo – Jun 8, 2010
Like many of you, I began reading the Union Square Ventures blog because of Albert, Brad, and Fred's open discussions of the disruptions caused by new technology. I've since learned a tremendous amount both from reading the posts and comments [...] Read more
WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4
Albert Wenger – Jun 8, 2010
I was really surprised that Steve Jobs did not announce more cloud capabilities for Apple during his WWDC keynote. It had been rumored that MobileMe might become free and Apple has been investing heavily in data centers. I believe that [...] Read more
More On the Carried Interest Taxation Debate
Albert Wenger – Jun 7, 2010
Last week I wrote briefly about my position in the carried interest taxation debate. Since then the debate has gotten a bit more heated with opposing posts by Chris Dixon and James Robinson. Chris argued that this is a matter [...] Read more