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Looking Ahead
Fred Wilson – Mar 23, 2006
I said something on Heather Green’s podcast that I’d like to repeat on this blog. Heather asked me if our investment strategy was changing. I told her that when we raised Union Square Ventures’ first fund in late 2003 and [...] Read more
Will Computing Ever Be As Invisible As Electricity
Brad Burnham – Mar 20, 2006
Many years ago, I read an article that made a big impression on me. It compared the adoption of information technology to the adoption of electricity. The article noted that, in the late 19th century, when electricity was a novelty, [...] Read more
TACODA Raises $12 million
Fred Wilson – Mar 9, 2006
TACODA (that is now the official name of the company) announced that it recently closed on a round of $12 million that will allow it to continue expanding on the extraordinary success of its behavioral ad network TACODA Audience Networks™.Union [...] Read more
Web Services and Devices
Fred Wilson – Feb 27, 2006
We are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched.And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device being [...] Read more
Advisory Capital
Fred Wilson – Feb 23, 2006
Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital).Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. [...] Read more
Research and Development
Brad Burnham – Feb 15, 2006
Is it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development.For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from here [...] Read more