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Jan 20, 2006
Our portfolio company Indeed.com is doing some great stuff. For those who are not familiar with Indeed, it’s a job search engine. Think Google for jobs. As Indeed says, "one search, all jobs". Give it a try. It's so simple and so ...
Jan 20, 2006
For as long as there has been advertising, the advertisers have sought to run the ads in context. By "in context", I mean car ads in the automotive section, banking ads in the finance section, beer ads in the sports section, ...
Jan 19, 2006
I wrote a post on my personal weblog several months ago called The Future of Media where I invited anyone to take my content (actually my RSS feed) and do anything they want with it. I suggested that there were ...
Nov 22, 2005
For years, we have been fascinated by the fact that many of the very best startup companies come out of "side projects". They are accidents really. eBay, Google, and Yahoo! are all examples of this mode of starting companies. Delicious ...
Nov 12, 2005
Many of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds). We've always thought that was wrong. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That's the ...
Nov 4, 2005
I posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other day. It fostered some good discussion in the comments section of that ...
Oct 26, 2005
One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform. The team that is building this company is first-rate and has already built several very valuable companies ...
Oct 24, 2005
This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production. This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki. I assumed that Charlie did ...
Oct 23, 2005
It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures. The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word ...