A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonIt took a couple days, but we’ve uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures. The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word file here. Someone has also created a reformatted version of […] Read more
Fred WilsonEarly stage venture capital investing is not really a numbers oriented business. Its much more important to have a feel for technology, markets, and people than numbers. But there are times when numbers are important. Two of the most important times you want to focus on numbers are: – when you want […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe like to make our initial investment sometime between the formation of a business and the first dollar of revenue coming in the door. Sometimes that time period lasts a while. In the interim, how do you monitor how an investment is doing? Even after revenue starts rolling in, its helpful to have […] Read more
Fred WilsonI just finished John Battelle’s The Search. It’s a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and the internet. One of the things I that I enjoyed most in the book was John’s comparison of Google and Yahoo!. I won’t quote from the book here. If […] Read more
Fred WilsonWhat is Audience Management? It’s the ability to track your audience and customers, know who they are, what they like, how they behave, etc. Done right, it can allow a business to improve its relationship with its customers and potential customers. Businesses have been doing audience management […] Read more
Fred WilsonI didn’t plan on posting anything about Union Square Ventures’ most recent investment, del.icio.us. The founder, Joshua Schachter, posted twice to his list about the investment and I figure that is pretty much the whole story. If you want the details on the investment, that’s about all there is to […] Read more
