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Nov 24, 2010

We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter's new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious -- in my case "working with" was literal -- and Read more

Nov 24, 2010

I am very excited to be working with Joshua again. You can read (a bit) more on the Union Square Ventures blog about our investment in Tasty Labs. Read more

Nov 23, 2010

Fred has a post today titled “Mobile First, Web Second” http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html which is spot on. There is an important additional reason for pursuing this strategy: on the web everything is about displacement, on mobile there is still mostly open space. Read more

Nov 22, 2010

Yesterday, I gave $1,000 to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. With this post I want to convince you to do the same (or at least give something to him). Why? Because Ron Wyden has taken a stand against the awful Read more

Nov 17, 2010

Listening to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at W2Summit was fascinating. First, I have seen Mark’s performance on stage go from awkward and tentative three years ago to assured and compelling now. Second, it couldn’t be clearer that Mark is singularly in Read more

Nov 16, 2010

Super detailed post by Bill Gurley about IPOs followed by a riff from Fred with more good reasons why could and should see more IPOs from Internet companies. So I am piling on with an IPO post as well, but Read more

Nov 15, 2010

There is a whole resurgence of photo sharing and it is all based on creating a natively mobile experience (as opposed to adding mobile as an after thought). This is interesting two reasons. First, photo sharing is of course one Read more

Nov 12, 2010

The rumor is that Facebook will on Monday unveil a fairly full fledged webmail solution. At the same time Google is working hard on some kind of new social network. Microsoft too is trying to have email, search, social, etc. Read more

Nov 11, 2010

I am going to spend the better part of today building some models in Excel. Much as I love Google Docs, for any serious model I still go back to Excel without regrets. It is fast and versatile and I Read more