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Jan 12, 2006

More and more, the entrepreneurs we see present their business in the context of an ecosystem. This is a healthy development because it acknowledges the complexity of the environments within which start-ups operate today. Technology generally and web services in Read more

Dec 9, 2005

On April 14th, we closed an investment in Delicious. We wrote about our initial investment here. Eight months later, Delicious has been sold to Yahoo!. The news is on the Delicious blog. We are thrilled to see Joshua Schachter, one of Read more

Nov 19, 2005

Our sessions event happened almost a month ago and it is starting to fade into my memory. But there is at least one phrase that came out of Sessions that we are still using with regularity at Union Square Ventures. And Read more

Nov 15, 2005

There was a lot of discussion about the relationship between web service providers and consumers. This relationship is obviously especially important in services where the consumers are also the producers of the service. One thread of this discussion was about Read more

Nov 9, 2005

There was a lot of talk at Sessions about trust. The word appears 33 times in the transcript. Jeff Jarvis mentioned it 11 times himself. Here, Jeff makes the point that value is shifting from content to trust. “And so Read more

Nov 5, 2005

One of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how adding money undermines social motivations depending on contents. I am not sure how to Read more

Nov 3, 2005

Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion... Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal… “Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that's implicit, unfortunately, is that Read more

Nov 2, 2005

Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week. Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that "What does an abundance of information create?" Read more

Oct 28, 2005

Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says, "if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful Read more