A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonEarlier this week a fact checker from New York Magazine called me to ask a few questions about Union Square Ventures. Apparently we are in the next issue in a story about influential technology people in NYC. She read me a sentence or two about why del.icio.us is an important and influential web […] Read more
Fred WilsonMost 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 firm and they include the services from Yahoo! and Google, blogging tools like WordPress, […] Read more
Fred WilsonI 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 early 2004, we were very excited about the coming explosion in web native […] Read more
Fred WilsonTACODA (that is now the official name of the company) announced that it recently closed on a round of $12 million that will allow it to continue expanding on the extraordinary success of its behavioral ad network TACODA Audience Networks™. Union Square Ventures participated in the $12 million […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe 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 discussed in the blogs this weekend before it’s even announced by […] Read more
Fred WilsonStowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don’t need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. We all know the reasons for this so I won’t get into them. […] Read more
