Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 17
Nov 5, 2018
New York City on Marathon day may be the city at its absolute best. It has all of the right ingredients to both simultaneously welcome traveling visitors and to remind long-time locals why they love it here. For the 50,000 [...]
Nov 4, 2018
I’ve always admired how the theatre industry handles feedback. First of all, it’s all happening in real time…for everyone. This makes it much harder to cover up slip-ups. If you’re a singer or musician, you either hit all of the [...]
Oct 24, 2018
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our new USV Talent Network.
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Jul 21, 2018
USV Intern Day brings together interns from dozens of portfolio companies and invites them to learn about all of the companies in our portfolio.
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Mar 13, 2018
Prior to each summit, our CEOs submit lessons learned and current challenges, which we use to help curate breakout groups where they lead each other in conversation. By leveraging an “unconference style” model, our CEOs and founders learn from each other, rather than from us, which makes a lot more sense.
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Jan 25, 2018
Today marks the kickoff of the 6th USV Manager Bootcamp, a cross-company training for first-time managers at USV portfolio companies. Inspired by leaders across our network and facilitated by LifeLabs Learning, each 4-course session covers the core competencies that many new managers need on the job.
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Dec 13, 2017
Within our USV portfolio network, we are continuously looking for opportunities to “level up” the collective knowledge across the companies that we work with every day. As these businesses evolve and grow their customers and user communities, we also have the unique opportunity to observe how these companies build out their organizations from the inside -- which often falls to the role of the HR and People Ops team.
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Nov 9, 2017
Across our active USV portfolio network of 70 companies, it’s highly likely that there’s at least one other person thinking about some of those same challenges. Our goal is to design an experience that makes it as easy as possible to find that individual and get your questions answered.
Here’s how we leverage our network to forge meaningful connections for our 8,000+ portfolio network members.
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Oct 26, 2017
At Union Square Ventures, we spend a lot of time thinking about networks. Financial networks, social networks, data networks, and yes, even decentralized networks. But the most “meta” version of this is the network we’ve spent the past seven years cultivating among the employees of our active portfolio companies -- our USV portfolio network.
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