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Feb 27, 2006

We are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched. And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device being [...]

Feb 23, 2006

Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. [...]

Feb 15, 2006

Is it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development. For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from here [...]

Feb 7, 2006

Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story: Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights. We met the Company shortly after it was [...]

Feb 6, 2006

Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today. We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have been [...]

Feb 2, 2006

I did not study a lot of science in high school so this reference to mathematics is likely to be my last effort to come up with a model from high school science that sheds light on the evolution of [...]