Yes but….
In our first "hello world" post on this blog, we made the point that the market we operate in is one of the most dynamic markets anywhere. We concluded that it made little sense to have a static investment strategy [...] Read more
Looking Ahead
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
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
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
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
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