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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
Brad Burnham – Sep 18, 2006
When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and more likely that 20 years from now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Cingular and T-Mobile will [...] Read more
Business Development 2.0
Fred Wilson – Aug 17, 2006
It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in search of deals that bring traffic, users, additional functionality, revenue, and a host of [...] Read more
A Stray Thought on the Micro-chunking of Media
Brad Burnham – May 2, 2006
This is one of those blindingly obvious revelations that make you feel a little dumb in retrospect. It occurred to me over the weekend, as I leafed through the Economist's special section on new media that, it is impossible for [...] Read more
Why has the flow of technology reversed?
Brad Burnham – Apr 14, 2006
Esther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an interesting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors who,. like us, are on the look out for [...] Read more
Taking Web Services To The Office
Fred Wilson – Apr 13, 2006
Most of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the customer. We call them consumer facing web services in our [...] Read more
Yes but….
Brad Burnham – Mar 26, 2006
In our first "hello world" post on this blog, we made the point that the market we operate in is one of the most dynamic markets anywhere. We concluded that it made little sense to have a static investment strategy [...] Read more
Looking Ahead
Fred Wilson – Mar 23, 2006
I said something on Heather Green’s podcast that I’d like to repeat on this blog. Heather asked me if our investment strategy was changing. I told her that when we raised Union Square Ventures’ first fund in late 2003 and [...] Read more
Will Computing Ever Be As Invisible As Electricity
Brad Burnham – Mar 20, 2006
Many years ago, I read an article that made a big impression on me. It compared the adoption of information technology to the adoption of electricity. The article noted that, in the late 19th century, when electricity was a novelty, [...] Read more
Web Services and Devices
Fred Wilson – Feb 27, 2006
We are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched.And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device being [...] Read more