A historical collection of our writing.
A core piece of USV’s thesis has long been around an enablement layer – the idea that horizontal tooling is essential to support growing ecosystems that sit on top. That belief has led to investments like Twilio, Shippo, Sift, Clarifai, and MongoDB. These products have the great benefit of dual […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThose of you who have followed our history may remember that it was a shared angel investment in Dave Morgan’s pioneering Internet advertising company, TACODA, that led to the formation of Union Square Ventures, so we are doubly pleased to have led the most recent financing in Dave’s current […] Read more
A Google search for “apartment lease” returns 86 million results. Which makes sense. One of the constants in life is finding a place to live, and signing a long-term contract for that living place. That constant — that lease — remains in force even though changes in our lives may not line up neatly […] Read more
Even back when I was in graduate school, I found the price of textbooks to be high and their quality to vary widely. Now that I have children taking college courses, I was shocked to find textbooks that cost over $200 and are still large physical objects that have to be lugged around! The high […] Read more
Part of the genius of the Internet is its ability to coordinate the actions of many disparate and geographically diverse people by eliminating the marginal cost of sharing information. In the last few decades alone, we’ve seen this happen again and again in areas such as education, science and […] Read more
Today we lead mostly sedentary lifestyles. Once we learned how to harvest the planet’s natural resources for our survival all those thousands of years ago, we abandoned our nomadic way of life and settled down by the rivers. We learned that being close to one another makes us more productive, so we […] Read more
