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Fred Wilson – Jun 5, 2006
When it comes to online commerce, we are big fans of community and marketplaces. In the age of “search for the lowest price” retailing, there are few differentiating features that can deliver a sustainable advantage in online commerce.We have not [...] Read more
How Does Indeed Make Money?
Fred Wilson – Jun 5, 2006
A number of people have asked me this question in response to my post on Indeed from several weeks ago.Fortunately Paul Forster, CEO of Indeed, has laid out the basics of Indeed's sponsored jobs offering in this post on Blog [...] Read more
What Else Are You Interested In?
Fred Wilson – May 23, 2006
Our portfolio company, TACODA, is the leader in behavioral targeting. They are working with publishers all over the Internet. They identify what users are interested in using a "data tag" on the publisher's page and then use that data to [...] Read more
Advertising to Job Seekers
Fred Wilson – May 14, 2006
Our portfolio company, Indeed.com, has announced the commercial availability of a cost per click (CPC) advertising system targeting job seekers.What that means is that advertisers now have a way to reach job seekers directly and pay for those ads on [...] Read more
Introducing Bug Labs
Brad Burnham – May 9, 2006
The two things we respect most in an entrepreneur are experience and passion. In entrepreneurship, as in life, they do not always go together. So we are thrilled to be working with Peter Semmelhack, the founder of Bug Labs, our [...] Read more
User Tagging Is Fundamental
Fred Wilson – May 3, 2006
Earlier this week a fact checker from New York Magazine called me to ask a few questions about Union Square Ventures. Apparently we are in the next issue in a story about influential technology people in NYC.She read me a [...] Read more
TACODA Raises $12 million
Fred Wilson – Mar 9, 2006
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
Why We Invested in FeedBurner
Fred Wilson – Feb 7, 2006
Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story:Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights.We met the Company shortly after it was [...] Read more
Feedburner
Fred Wilson – Feb 6, 2006
Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today.We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have been [...] Read more