Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 18 of 23

Jul 31, 2007

Rarely have I read a more interesting essay about the psychology of venture investing than this piece written by Todd Jaquez-Fissori. I don't know Todd, but his post is a most welcome take written with a rare honesty and rich [...] Read more

Jul 27, 2007

Paul Kedrosky: Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so. Why? Two reasons. First, because VCs are professional nit-pickers. Give them something to find fault with, and they'll do it with abandon. I [...] Read more

Jul 24, 2007

I wrote a piece for the new Silicon Alley Insider site about seed investing in New York. It is about the fact that while venture funding statistics show larger funds and more later stage investing, there are still a wealth of [...] Read more

Jul 24, 2007

Page views? Visits per week? Time spent per visit? What's the answer? Social Degree posits another approach: A user is much more valuable to a community, to the publisher, and to the advertiser if they are interacting and contributing. 1,000 highly engaged [...] Read more

Jul 17, 2007

Seth Goldstein: Netscape browsed the Web. Yahoo! organized it. Google searched it. And now Facebook has made it social. Right or wrong, it's an interesting characterization. Plus, it implies myriad opportunities around each point -- browsing, organization, search and social community. Users can [...] Read more

Jul 13, 2007

The traditional approach to content distribution has been "if you build it they will come." Distribute quality content in one place, buying the shelf space for that place, then market it to drive users/viewers to that place. TV, cable, movies, [...] Read more

Jul 9, 2007

Great analysis from Umair at Bubblegen on advertising on social nets: "The point is - ads on social nets are seriously underperforming at the moment. It's unlikely that naive ads will be the b-model that lets them capture a share of [...] Read more

Jun 28, 2007

Fascinating chart from Business Week showing what people are doing online: They don't describe the chart as "social media" - but looking at the online actions listed (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives) seem to be a decent representation of activities [...] Read more

Jun 22, 2007

I found some great thoughts at elearnspace: Restructuring Education. Love this quote by Clay Shirky: "The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the society they live in. As a [...] Read more