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Apr 13, 2006

Most of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the customer. We call them consumer facing web services in our [...]

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Mar 23, 2006

I said something on Heather Green’s podcast that I’d like to repeat on this blog. Heather asked me if our investment strategy was changing. I told her that when we raised Union Square Ventures’ first fund in late 2003 and [...]

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Mar 9, 2006

TACODA (that is now the official name of the company) announced that it recently closed on a round of $12 million that will allow it to continue expanding on the extraordinary success of its behavioral ad network TACODA Audience Networks™.Union [...]

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Feb 27, 2006

We are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched. And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device being [...]

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Feb 23, 2006

Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. [...]

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Feb 7, 2006

Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story: Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights. We met the Company shortly after it was [...]

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Feb 6, 2006

Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today. We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have been [...]

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Feb 1, 2006

I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting. It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter from [...]

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Jan 24, 2006

Since I am not in the market for a job, I haven't been spending enough time on Indeed. But since my post on their instant job board service, I have been playing around with the service this weekend. And to my [...]

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