A historical collection of our writing.
Dani GrantI have a bucket list goal of learning how to play Capture The Flag (CTF), a security engineering game where digital flags are hidden on a server and teams compete to break the code running on the server to find the flags. You can learn to play CTF by google searching, watching youtube videos, and […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe Gotham Gal and I walked into the Musee de l’Orangerie yesterday and found a line of about 20 people waiting to purchase tickets to enter. The Gotham Gal whipped out her phone, went to the Orangerie website, and bought two tickets that were sent to her phone. It took her less than a minute […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonPeter Kafka interviewed YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Recode Conference last week. It’s an interesting discussion about many of the issues facing YouTube and the Internet at large right now. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Cloudflare provides a suite of mission critical security services, and increasingly other services too, in the cloud to their customers. Among the most well known of these security services is DDOS protection (aka denial of service attack protection). A DDOS attack is a […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that. While “capital” includes financial capital, we have always meant it more broadly, to include human capital, technology infrastructure capital, and access to “ownership” […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThose of you who have followed our history may remember that it was a shared angel investment in Dave Morgan’s pioneering Internet advertising company, TACODA, that led to the formation of Union Square Ventures, so we are doubly pleased to have led the most recent financing in Dave’s current […] Read more
