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Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?
Fred Wilson – Jul 7, 2006
At our recent Union Square Sessions event, we discussed three primary topics relating to public policy and innovation; net neutrality, copyrights, and patents. In this post, I'll try to summarize the patent discussion and highlight some of the most interesting [...] Read more
A Bittersweet Moment
Fred Wilson – Jul 7, 2006
It is with mixed emotions that we bid Charlie O'Donnell goodbye.As Charlie explains on his personal weblog, he is leaving Union Square Ventures at the end of next week to join our portfolio company Oddcast in the newly created position [...] Read more
Sessions
Brad Burnham – Jun 29, 2006
It took a little longer than we would have liked but the transcript of our June 15th Sessions event is now up on the Sessions Wiki. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find it. Or if you'd [...] Read more
Union Square Sessions 2 – Public Policy and Innovation
Brad Burnham – Jun 16, 2006
Yesterday we hosted a group of academics, policy professionals, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for a conversation about public policy and its impact on innovation. We are very grateful to everyone who took a day out of their busy schedules to [...] Read more
Oddcast
Charlie O'Donnell – Jun 13, 2006
Last week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors.Oddcast is the leading developer of web-based avatars for businesses and consumers.For some time now, we have been thinking [...] Read more
Why We Admire Craigslist
Brad Burnham – Jun 9, 2006
Craig Newmark came by last week and spent an hour with us and the leaders of several of our portfolio companies. I kicked off the conversation by describing how Charlie, who was short two softball players for a game last [...] Read more