A historical collection of our writing.
The NYT covered a company called cater2.me the other day under the headline “The Middleman is Thriving on the Internet.” Throughout the article the author refers to the company as an example of middlemen, including in the following: While this is clearly terrific coverage for cater2.me (I don’t […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am supportive of the #occupywallstreet protest as an exercise of First Amendment rights. I too am frustrated with a financial and economic system that has made the rich richer, has hollowed out the middle class and has ever more American families living in poverty. I am, however, skeptical about […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. We are having the Union Square Ventures portfolio summit where for one day founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies come together. It is an amazing opportunity for everyone involved to learn from each other and hopefully establish relationships […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Following f8, there has been a new explosion of discussion around Facebook’s voracious data gathering. For instance, Facebook keeps cookies on your machine even when you are logged out which allows them at least in principle to track your visits to sites with Facebook social plugins. Add to that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Mark Birch has a great post today about using LinkedIn correctly when asking for introductions. Very timely as I was planning to write about introductions today and now need to write only a fraction because Mark covers everything else (he links to some prior posts which are also worth reading). And […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Couldn’t resist an attention grabbing headline here after spending yesterday morning with my daughter on the kind of homework that just completely takes the fun out of learning. In geography her class is learning about latitude and longitude. As homework they got a work sheet that made them look up […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
