Writing

Choose

Early Stage Investing

I thought I'd lead off my series of posts on "other things we look for" with a discussion of our preference for early stage investing. Most of our investment approach is built on top of our foundation as early stage [...]  Read more

Other Things We Look For

Last month Brad wrote a series of posts on the things we look for in our investments. Those posts are archived here. As Brad said in his introduction to those posts:A year ago when we first re-launched our web site [...]  Read more

Our Customer Is The Entrepreneur

Many of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds).We've always thought that was wrong.The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That's the [...]  Read more

Location, Location, Location

Steve Shu's post on VC in different geographies got me thinking. Steve wrote it on July 28th, but it only showed up in technorati's link search this week so that's when I read it. I also got a trackback from [...]  Read more

Union Square Ventures

Often in our business you work on things for months and even years without being able to talk about them outside your immediate group of colleagues and family members. Secrecy is required for competitive or regulatory reasons. So it has [...]  Read more