A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonUnion Square Ventures is a thesis driven firm. We don’t really invest in the consumer web, networks, mobile, the cloud, or any specific technology. We invest in the disruption of the global economy caused by the increasing liquidity of information enabled by the internet. Our thesis allows us to […] Read more
When Union Square Ventures invested in Dwolla we were excited about the team’s approach to payments. But there was a big limitation which made initial use of Dwolla a bit daunting: you had to have a funded Dwolla account which could take several days to set up. Today Dwolla is launching guest […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been too busy with more important topics to write movie reviews. So here are a few mini reviews (reviewlets?) of movies I have seen recently. I wanted to like both Looper and Skyfall but didn’t really. Conversely, my expectations for Lincoln and Life of Pi were lower and I wound up enjoying […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonSo I messed up bigtime yesterday. I created a "final version" of the revenue model hackpad and locked it down so hard that nobody could even see it. What happened is I am using a product, hackpad, that I don't really know how to use correctly. I am learning how to use it in real-time. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
I started the Tech Tuesday series on programming in April of this year with an overview post that compared programming to telling a person how to do something. At the time, I presented nine different questions that this raises, such as which language to speak and which words to choose in that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It was great fun to see XKCD take up the subject of Bayesian probability. That was a good reminder that it’s been a while since I taught my Skillshare class on the subject. And so I have added a new date for a lunch class on December 4th. As per usual, all proceeds go to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
