Why has the flow of technology reversed?
Esther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an interesting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors who,. like us, are on the look out for [...] Read more
Taking Web Services To The Office
Most of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the customer. We call them consumer facing web services in our [...] Read more
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
