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Announcing the investment in Sidecar that USV made last summer

Joi Ito likes to say the Internet is a belief system.

At Union Square Ventures, we believe in the Internet. We spend a lot of time thinking about how the Internet enables young companies to radically transform markets. We try ...

One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us

is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to ...

We owe many of the innovations that we use every day

from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. Endusers don't need to understand these any more than ...

Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer

that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major differences ...

It feels like it is fairly well understood

that the Internet enables unprecedented sharing of information, ideas and content. At USV we have participated in a bunch of services that make it easier to share - such as Twitter, Behance, ...