A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI said something on Heather Green’s podcast that I’d like to repeat on this blog. Heather asked me if our investment strategy was changing. I told her that when we raised Union Square Ventures’ first fund in late 2003 and early 2004, we were very excited about the coming explosion in web native […] Read more
Brad BurnhamMany years ago, I read an article that made a big impression on me. It compared the adoption of information technology to the adoption of electricity. The article noted that, in the late 19th century, when electricity was a novelty, it was a quirky, visible, high maintenance presence in the lives […] Read more
Fred WilsonTACODA (that is now the official name of the company) announced that it recently closed on a round of $12 million that will allow it to continue expanding on the extraordinary success of its behavioral ad network TACODA Audience Networks™. Union Square Ventures participated in the $12 million […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched. And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device being discussed in the blogs this weekend before it’s even announced by […] Read more
Fred WilsonStowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don’t need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. We all know the reasons for this so I won’t get into them. […] Read more
Brad BurnhamIs it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development. For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from here to there, how to store more bits, how to organize bits so they can […] Read more
