By Albert Wenger—Jan 27, 2015

I am very excited about what we are doing over at usv.com with the Topic of the Week. Last week we discussed undoing incumbent marketplaces and this week it is about community ownership of applications. We wanted usv.com to be an extension of the discussions that we have internally and this new […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 26, 2015

A big part of our investing at Union Square Ventures is to find businesses that have network effects. Marketplaces fit with that because participating in a marketplace tends to become more valuable as the marketplace grows (that’s assuming the marketplace does a good job spreading liquidity among […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jan 25, 2015

In our most recent fund, USV 2014, five of our first six investments, have been seed investments. That is probably surprising to many people as USV is not thought of as a seed investor. I wrote a post today explaining why we are doing a lot of seed investing these days and how we do […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Jan 23, 2015

Here is the transcript of my talk about a Basic Income Guarantee and the Right to be Represented by a BOT from TEDxNewYork. All of our economic theory, all of our business practice, all of our public policy, they were all developed during an era of scarcity. Scarcity means that when you want more of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Brittany Laughlin—Jan 20, 2015

As Nick, Jonathan and Fred have shared, this January we’re busy rolling out updates to USV.com. The core idea behind USV.com is to open source our thinking — to do in public, with the great community of people that has been growing around the site, what we normally do internally at USV. Today, […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Jan 16, 2015

In my talk at Techconomy Detroit I proposed two policy measures for dealing with the transition to the information age: a basic income guarantee (universal basic income) and what I then called the right to an API Key. At the wonderful TEDxNewYork I was given an opportunity to expand on both of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)