Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 23
Jul 20, 2008
14 tracks - great design and concept - online music sales grouped around concepts of 14TiltViewerTwitter search for "WTF is up with" (via mediaeater)Twitter acquiring SummizePoketoZemantaTrendrrconversational search Read more
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Jul 8, 2008
TipjoyAdNectarSeedcampBit.lyTinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it)Structuring unstructured data Read more
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Jun 17, 2008
Screw all manner of betaworks' objectivity, this is pretty cool - John Geraci:Don’t have time to start a placeblog? Neither do I. But now, thanks to outside.in Radar, Twitter and Summize, we can placetweet. Placetweeting? I’ve got time for that. [...] Read more
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Jun 11, 2008
While eating Chicken Adobo at Cendrillion every other day for the past 6 months, we talk constantly about the value of data - how can an application or a technology create value to an existing or new group of users [...] Read more
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May 4, 2008
This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino [...] Read more
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Apr 16, 2008
Paul Graham:The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them [...] Read more
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Apr 11, 2008
Why did betaworks get involved with someecards? See below - Brook Lundy, co-founder. Read more
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Apr 6, 2008
My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years:
- Remote control
- MTV circa 1980-84
- Curb-side check in
- Caller ID
- Instant messaging
- iPod 80 gig
- EZPass
- EpiPen
- Metrocards on NYC subways
- Suzuki method of teaching guitar
- Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc Read more
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Mar 16, 2008
Y Combinator's investor demo day was last week, out in Mountain View, showcasing the latest batch of companies that Paul & Co. have funded and worked with . Kind of blew my mind. Not because I saw 19 very interesting [...] Read more