A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamMore and more, the entrepreneurs we see present their business in the context of an ecosystem. This is a healthy development because it acknowledges the complexity of the environments within which start-ups operate today. Technology generally and web services in particular are no longer exist in […] Read more
Brad BurnhamOn April 14th, we closed an investment in Delicious. We wrote about our initial investment here. Eight months later, Delicious has been sold to Yahoo!. The news is on the Delicious blog. We are thrilled to see Joshua Schachter, one of the most interesting entrepreneurs we have worked with in a long […] Read more
Brad BurnhamOur sessions event happened almost a month ago and it is starting to fade into my memory. But there is at least one phrase that came out of Sessions that we are still using with regularlity at Union Square Ventures. And it came out of this really interesting exchange between Brad and Tim O’Reilly on […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere was a lot of discussion about the relationship between web service providers and consumers. This relationship is obviously especially important in services where the consumers are also the producers of the service. One thread of this discussion was about control. I hate to lead with Jeff […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere was a lot of talk at Sessions about trust. The word appears 33 times in the transcript. Jeff Jarvis mentioned it 11 times himself. Here, Jeff makes the point that value is shifting from content to trust. “And so the content isn’t what’s valuable. It’s the trust and relationship that’s […] Read more
Brad BurnhamOne of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how adding money undermines social motivations depending on contents I am not sure how to intepret that last part – “depending on contents” – but […] Read more
