### My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany
I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I could earn money with my programming skills and wound [...]
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### Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize
We have known the Summize team and have followed their progress for the past year. Summize has developed a real time search engine for conversational media [...]  
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### Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that they have closed a second round of financing
Led by Spark Capital and including Jeff Bezos' investment entity Bezos Expeditions. Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage, another existing investor, also participated in the [...]  
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### This morning Union Square Ventures endorsed an initiative called Internet for Everyone
This group does not sponsor specific policies or legislation. Rather, it hopes to build broad popular support for a few basic principles that hopefully will guide policy choices [...]  
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### Charlie O'Donnell and I will be moderating a three-hour startup workshop at NYC Web 2.0 Expo in September
There is a lot we could talk about from getting started to hiring to fundraising. But rather than just pick the [...]  
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### Back in February, we posted here that we were looking to hire an analyst
We asked anyone who was interested in the position to leave a comment. We received 164 comments and then worked through all of them to find [...]  
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