Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 23
Nov 27, 2011
"Let the products sell themselves... fuck advertising, commercial psychology ... psychological methods to sell should be destroyed." - The Minutemen, Shit From An Old Notebook. We have enough data now to realize that display advertising on the Internet doesn't work. Some ...
Nov 16, 2011
Today is American Censorship Day, so named because there is legislation working its way through Congress that would materially harm innovation and impede speech. You can read about why so many of us feel so strongly that this legislation is particularly ...
Nov 3, 2011
My friend Mike White told me the other day that he uses the photo sharing service Instagram because it makes him happy. That stuck in my head. So I remembered that the mission statement for the Cheezburger Network is "5 minutes ...
Oct 23, 2011
A few weeks back, Ryan Bubinski, who co-founded Codecademy with Zach Sims, said to me that he thought learning how to code should be a fundamental skill on par with learning how to read or write or do arithmetic. And, ...
Oct 20, 2011
For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I'm excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined ...
Oct 20, 2011
Chris Poole, founder of Canvas, "a place to share and play with images" gave an amazing talk the other day, Self-Expression through Social Media, you can see it below: Chris speaks about how identity intersects with the forms and methods of ...
Aug 1, 2011
In real life I am who I am. As Boon and Watt once wrote: "Real names be proof." But does a name, a real name, an identity, capture the full richness of personal self-expression? I'm not sure it does - indeed ...
Jun 25, 2011
My friend Anthony recently wrote about a six step process he uses to determine whether a new idea he finds out about, or a new company someone is starting, or a new product being released, is interesting to him. He emailed ...
Jun 5, 2011
"The fitness function of a venture capitalist — meaning the metrics of performance, the report card — is pretty pure. You show up with money, and one way or another more money has to come back than goes in." Bing ...