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Hello World

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

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

Audience Management

What is Audience Management? It's the ability to track your audience and customers, know who they are, what they like, how they behave, etc. Done right, it can allow a business to improve its relationship with its customers and potential [...]  Read more

del.icio.us

I didn't plan on posting anything about Union Square Ventures' most recent investment, del.icio.us. The founder, Joshua Schachter, posted twice to his list about the investment and I figure that is pretty much the whole story. If you want the [...]  Read more

Indeed

Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising our fund, we used to talk a lot about web services that should exist but don’t. One of Brad’s favorites was “paid job search.” Brad would say that job [...]  Read more