A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonAt our recent Union Square Sessions event, we discussed three primary topics relating to public policy and innovation; net neutrality, copyrights, and patents. In this post, I’ll try to summarize the patent discussion and highlight some of the most interesting points that were made. If you’d like […] Read more
Fred WilsonIt is with mixed emotions that we bid Charlie O’Donnell goodbye. As Charlie explains on his personal weblog, he is leaving Union Square Ventures at the end of next week to join our portfolio company Oddcast in the newly created position of Director of Consumer Products. It seems like just yesterday […] Read more
Brad BurnhamIt took a little longer than we would have liked but the transcript of our June 15th Sessions event is now up on the Sessions Wiki. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find it. Or if you’d rather, this is a direct link to the transcript. Jonathan Taplin took me to task […] Read more
Brad BurnhamYesterday we hosted a group of academics, policy professionals, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for a conversation about public policy and its impact on innovation. We are very grateful to everyone who took a day out of their busy schedules to help us explore this issue. The policy […] Read more
Charlie O'DonnellLast week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors. Oddcast is the leading developer of web-based avatars for businesses and consumers. For some time now, we have been thinking about the relationship between identity […] Read more
Brad BurnhamCraig Newmark came by last week and spent an hour with us and the leaders of several of our portfolio companies. I kicked off the conversation by describing how Charlie, who was short two softball players for a game last Monday, posted on Craigslist that morning and by game time that afternoon had […] Read more
