A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamWe are thrilled to announce that Stack Overflow has closed a follow-on round of financing led by Index Ventures with participation from Spark Capital and ourselves. Neil Rimer and Bijan Sabet will join the board. We will also add a new independent director Anil Dash. Stack Overflow has also changed […] Read more
foursquare rolled out version 3.0 last night. Dennis and the team have a terrific post that explains all that is new and different. While I am excited about the new leaderboards and specials 2.0, I am most looking forward to the broad availability of recommendations. I know I will personally get […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today, President Obama will visit TechBoston Academy together with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Melinda Gates. The President is likely to renew his call for more innovation in education, with initiatives such as the creation of a federal education research funding effort to be called […] Read more
Weekends seem to bring with them at least one or two good blog debates. This last one was no different with Chris Dixon’s post titled “SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups” and Danny Sullivan’s response “SEO remains a viable marketing strategy for anyone.” I am not going to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAt Union Square Ventures, we seek to invest in large networks of engaged users. And we believe that the new beachhead for creating large networks is the mobile device. When you look at the engaged user on the mobile device, the thing you notice is that messaging is the killer app. People like to […] Read more
As believers in the singularity are quick (and right) to point out, we don’t do very well as humans when it comes to understanding exponential growth. This is not a new insight as we can see from the much older story about the peasant who wins a chess game against a king and ask as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
