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Management Case, Base Case and Worst Case
Fred Wilson – Oct 20, 2005
Early stage venture capital investing is not really a numbers oriented business.Its much more important to have a feel for technology, markets, and people than numbers.But there are times when numbers are important.Two of the most important times you want [...] Read more
Metrics
Fred Wilson – Oct 15, 2005
We like to make our initial investment sometime between the formation of a business and the first dollar of revenue coming in the door. Sometimes that time period lasts a while. In the interim, how do you monitor how an [...] Read more
Web Services are different
Brad Burnham – Oct 13, 2005
We are true believers in the potential of the web. Over the last year, we have seen a number of lightweight web services that could be the foundation for large and valuable businesses. Many of these services appear to be [...] Read more
Hello World
Brad Burnham – Oct 12, 2005
Anyone who has been to our site before will notice a very different look and feel today. When we launched Union Square Ventures last year, we put up a web site that described who we were, how we saw the [...] Read more
Founders
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2005
I just finished John Battelle's The Search.It's a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and the internet.One of the things I that I enjoyed most in the book was John's comparison [...] Read more
10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
Charlie O'Donnell – Oct 11, 2005
Do you want to make money in your own home? Forget real estate scams, tupperware, or becoming a spammer. Create your own Web 2.0 company NOW!! Its easy. Just follow these 10 simple steps and you, too, can be seen [...] Read more