A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamAt Union Square Ventures, we seldom invest in a company before it launches publicly. The exception is when we have the opportunity to back an experienced entrepreneur with a strong team and a strong product vision. That is exactly what happened with Tracked.com. So we now find ourselves in the […] Read more
Brad BurnhamMany of you are familiar with dust up between Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell that was touched off by Malcolm’s review of Chris’s new book, Free: The Future of Radical Price. [UPDATE: Free is no longer free. The link to Chris’s book has been retired. You can find Chris’s book on Amazon.] […] Read more
Brad BurnhamIt has been two months since we hosted a great group of academics, entrepreneurs, educators, and administrators at our Union Square Sessions Event, Hacking Education. Fred posted his initial thoughts immediately after the event and in a great example of peer production, Alex Krupp curated the […] Read more
Brad BurnhamFred wrote a post earlier this week advocating for more “open spectrum”. Fred argues in his post that freeing up more open spectrum will have a much larger impact than spending $7.2B in stimulus money to run wires to rural constituents. He also references our friend Tom Evslin who has been thinking […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere is an old and perhaps slightly shopworn saying in the venture business that you back the jockey and not the horse. But in markets undergoing dramatic transformation, where there is a real advantage to being quick on your feet, it is as true as ever. Dave Morgan, who founded Real Media and […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThere is a great post up on the Pinch Media blog that links to a presentation they did for an IPhone user’s group here in New York. Pinch Media provides analytics for several hundred applications in the iPhone app store. Between them, those applications have over 30,000,000 downloads. In aggregate […] Read more
