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Off Exchange and Blackberry
Albert Wenger – Jun 28, 2011
As of last Friday I am off Exchange and my Blackberry, joining the rest of the Union Square Ventures team on Google and Android. While there are still a few small glitches to be worked out, I am happy with [...] Read more
How I Get Excited About New Ideas
Andy Weissman – Jun 25, 2011
My friend Anthony recently wrote about a six step process he uses to determine whether a new idea he finds out about, or a new company someone is starting, or a new product being released, is interesting to him.He emailed [...] Read more
The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation
Brad Burnham – Jun 23, 2011
As venture capitalists, we believe deeply in the value of decentralized, emergent, start-up innovation. The Internet has been an unusually fertile ground for this type of innovation largely because, for the first time in history, it has been possible to [...] Read more
Taking a Stand on Protect IP
Albert Wenger – Jun 23, 2011
Today we posted on the USV blog about a letter against the Protect IP Act. The letter is signed by 53 VCs from 40 different firms representing over $13 billion in equity capital. Our central objection to the act is [...] Read more
Security: A Board Level Issue
Albert Wenger – Jun 21, 2011
The Internet has experienced an epic set of attacks over the last few months. This has ranged from massive compromises such as Sony’s Playstation Network to the smaller but potentially equally impactful breach of Mt. Gox (a bitcoin exchange that [...] Read more
Pandora, S1s and Social
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2011
I had an opportunity to buy shares in the Pandora IPO but chose not to. If I was a super active trader and had stayed on top of it I could have made a fair bit of money as the [...] Read more
Canvas
Fred Wilson – Jun 14, 2011
I posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well. ---- We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in [...] Read more
Canvas
Fred Wilson – Jun 13, 2011
We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we are constantly reminded of the power of the community. Whenever we are presented [...] Read more
Researching ESP (Motivating Kids’ Interest in Science)
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2011
For the end of her 5th grade, my daughter had to complete something called the “capstone project” – meant to be a first original research project. She came up with what I thought was a rather original project: she wanted [...] Read more