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Power to the People
Albert Wenger – Sep 22, 2008
We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic picture. We do the same for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day [...] Read more
Zemanta
Fred Wilson – Sep 15, 2008
We've invested in a number of blogging related applications and services; Adaptive Blue, Delicious, Disqus, FeedBurner, Outside.in, Twitter, and Tumblr. We've been attracted to this sector for a number of reason; because an increasing amount of content is produced with [...] Read more
Meetup – The Original Web Meets World Company
Brad Burnham – Jul 23, 2008
Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence. There is still [...] Read more
Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP
Fred Wilson – Jul 23, 2008
Our portfolo company Zynga closed a $29mm round of financing last week which was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. We participated in the round, as did other investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Bing Gordon, co-founder of Electronic Arts [...] Read more
10gen
Albert Wenger – Jul 20, 2008
My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany. I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I could earn money with my programming skills and wound [...] Read more
Twitter Acquires Summize
Fred Wilson – Jul 15, 2008
Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize. We have known the Summize team and have followed their progress for the past year. Summize has developed a real time search engine for conversational media [...] Read more