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Brad Burnham – Aug 6, 2006
A year ago when we first re-launched our web site as a blog, we did so because we felt that the environment was too volatile for a fixed investment thesis. Instead we suggested that our thesis evolves in a dialogue [...] Read more
Oddcast
Charlie O'Donnell – Jun 13, 2006
Last week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors.Oddcast is the leading developer of web-based avatars for businesses and consumers.For some time now, we have been thinking [...] Read more
Why We Admire Craigslist
Brad Burnham – Jun 9, 2006
Craig Newmark came by last week and spent an hour with us and the leaders of several of our portfolio companies. I kicked off the conversation by describing how Charlie, who was short two softball players for a game last [...] Read more
Etsy
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
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
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
Union Square Sessions 1 – Transcript
Fred Wilson – Oct 23, 2005
It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures.The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word [...] Read more
Union Square Ventures
Fred Wilson – Sep 27, 2005
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