**Jan 12, 2006**  
More and more, the entrepreneurs we see present their business in the context of an ecosystem. This is a healthy development because it acknowledges the complexity of the environments within which start-ups operate today. Technology generally and web services in  
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**Dec 9, 2005**  
On April 14th, we closed an investment in Delicious. We wrote about our initial investment here. Eight months later, Delicious has been sold to Yahoo!. The news is on the Delicious blog. We are thrilled to see Joshua Schachter, one of  
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**Nov 28, 2005**  
We are very happy about the success of our new website. It has become a vibrant hub for thoughtful exchange and we hope we can facilitate even more dialogue that our audience finds interesting. This would not be possible if  
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**Nov 22, 2005**  
For years, we have been fascinated by the fact that many of the very best startup companies come out of "side projects". They are accidents really. eBay, Google, and Yahoo! are all examples of this mode of starting companies. Delicious  
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**Nov 19, 2005**  
Our sessions event happened almost a month ago and it is starting to fade into my memory. But there is at least one phrase that came out of Sessions that we are still using with regularity at Union Square Ventures. And  
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**Nov 15, 2005**  
There was a lot of discussion about the relationship between web service providers and consumers. This relationship is obviously especially important in services where the consumers are also the producers of the service. One thread of this discussion was about  
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