A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonNew York Magazine’s cover story this week is on the “Influentials”. It was nice to see the name of our 18 month old venture capital firm on the list as we’ve been working hard to influence the direction of technology and startups in our home town of New York City. We are honored, but also […] Read more
Fred WilsonEarlier this week a fact checker from New York Magazine called me to ask a few questions about Union Square Ventures. Apparently we are in the next issue in a story about influential technology people in NYC. She read me a sentence or two about why del.icio.us is an important and influential web […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThis is one of those blindingly obvious revelations that make you feel a little dumb in retrospect. It occurred to me over the weekend, as I leafed through the Economist’s special section on new media that, it is impossible for a magazine that depends on wide circulation to efficiently deliver […] Read more
Brad BurnhamEsther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an interesting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors who,. like us, are on the look out for ways of using services developed for consumers as a […] Read more
Fred WilsonMost of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the customer. We call them consumer facing web services in our firm and they include the services from Yahoo! and Google, blogging tools like WordPress, […] Read more
Brad BurnhamIn our first “hello world” post on this blog, we made the point that the market we operate in is one of the most dynamic markets anywhere. We concluded that it made little sense to have a static investment strategy in such a dynamic environment, so rather than put up a brochure as our web […] Read more
