A historical collection of our writing.
“I ain’t often right, but I’ve never been wrong” About seven years ago I came across an online music service that, instead of charging fixed fees for the digital files (there was no streaming back then), instead used a formula based on demand where the price changed over time. For example, a song […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Communities have long been an integral part of the Internet, online places where people can connect and share their passions and interests. And communities can have great network dynamics, where they increase in value as participants join and share more. Union Square Ventures has a long history of […] Read more
Ain’t lost yet, so I gotta be a winner – Paul Westerberg A number of years ago we were fundraising for betaworks. I can’t remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we’d been out talking to various financial and strategic investors for a few months explaining the story and […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Amazon Web Services are defined as “a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform in the cloud.” This definition belies just how profound those sets of services actually are. I remember back in 2008 watching Nate, Todd, Kortina, others, spin up web […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Over the holiday, I was visiting my mother on the upper east side of Manhattan. To get to her place from the subway I needed to cross 86th Street at 3rd Avenue. I’ve been crossing that street since I was 5 years old, it’s a horribly crowded corner. On the east side of the street […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
My house ain’t done, but it’s alright, floors ain’t level, but I ain’t some suburbanite. Who cares about bathroom tiles, straight lines and building codes and Chinese wind chimes. My house ain’t done, but it’s fine, come out here from time to time, in December for the snow and in July to watch the […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
