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CrowdRise
Fred Wilson – Apr 21, 2014
In November 2010 my friend Shana Fisher sent me an email suggesting I meet Edward Norton about his crowdfunding site for charities, called CrowdRise. I was pretty dismissive in my response to Shana. I told her that USV was “all [...] Read more
A VC: Sidecar
Fred Wilson – Feb 19, 2014
Announcing the investment in Sidecar that USV made last summer Read more
CloudFlare
Brad Burnham – Dec 17, 2013
Joi Ito likes to say the Internet is a belief system. At Union Square Ventures, we believe in the Internet. We spend a lot of time thinking about how the Internet enables young companies to radically transform markets. We try [...] Read more
Human Dx
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2013
One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to [...] Read more
Teaming up with THE Football App
Brad Burnham – Oct 24, 2013
Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major differences [...] Read more
Splice
Andy Weissman – Oct 9, 2013
It feels like it is fairly well understood that the Internet enables unprecedented sharing of information, ideas and content. At USV we have participated in a bunch of services that make it easier to share - such as Twitter, Behance, [...] Read more
VHX
Andy Weissman – Aug 29, 2013
Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; the number of radio stations to listen to music; the number of bookstores to buy books; [...] Read more
SigFig
John Buttrick – Jul 3, 2013
Investment management is an increasingly important problem. With the decline of defined benefit plans and the increasingly shaky social security system, most people will have to rely primarily on their savings and retirement accounts to fund living expenses after they [...] Read more
Firebase
Albert Wenger – Jun 20, 2013
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I have always had mixed feelings about this quote because as an engineer my reaction to something really advanced like self driving cars is to want [...] Read more