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March 6, 2011

At Union Square Ventures, we seek to invest in large networks of engaged users. And we believe that the new beachhead for creating large networks is the mobile device. When you look at the engaged user on the mobile device, the [...] Read more

January 15, 2011

We founded Union Square Ventures in 2003 to invest in the applications layer of the web. Over the last seven years, we have refined that investment focus. We now invest almost exclusively in Internet services that create large networks. Some [...] Read more

January 7, 2011

The web has been largely a silent affair for its first fifteen years. Part of this is that the music industry has struggled with the web and what it means for its business model. Part of it is that podcasting [...] Read more

December 8, 2010

Julius Genachowski, the Chairman of the FCC, recently announced that he would ask the FCC to adopt rules to protect the open Internet at its open meeting on December 21st. We applaud the Chairman's effort, but we worry the proposed [...] Read more

December 6, 2010

Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called "Hacking Education" -- the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in [...] Read more

December 3, 2010

The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the [...] Read more