January 2008 | Union Square Ventures

Last week Union Square Ventures participated in a Series D round for Etsy.

We have participated in every round of financing for the company and pleased to have been able to invest in such an exciting opportunity. CEO Rob Kalin outlines [...]

Marco built something called Instapaper the other day

which allows one to save web articles to read later. Its goal is simple (save to read later), its functionality is simple (click the read later button/bookmarket) and its design is [...]

In the middle of last year my friend Mark Pincus stopped by my office

to tell me what he'd been up to. Facebook apps it turned out, of course. He said, "Fred, by this time next year, everything you invest [...]

Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity

through the creation of: " . . . a loosely-coupled value chain including users as value creators. The value chain is not owned by a [...]