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Jul 12, 2006

We recently posted the news that our analyst Charlie O'Donnell is leaving us to join one of our portfolio companies. We are now actively looking for someone to fill his position. We noticed while working with del.icio.us that their best hires Read more

Jul 7, 2006

It is with mixed emotions that we bid Charlie O'Donnell goodbye. As Charlie explains on his personal weblog, he is leaving Union Square Ventures at the end of next week to join our portfolio company Oddcast in the newly created position Read more

Jun 29, 2006

It took a little longer than we would have liked but the transcript of our June 15th Sessions event is now up on the Sessions Wiki. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find it. Or if you'd Read more

Jun 16, 2006

Yesterday we hosted a group of academics, policy professionals, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for a conversation about public policy and its impact on innovation. We are very grateful to everyone who took a day out of their busy schedules to Read more

May 23, 2006

Our portfolio company, TACODA, is the leader in behavioral targeting. They are working with publishers all over the Internet. They identify what users are interested in using a "data tag" on the publisher's page and then use that data to Read more

May 8, 2006

New York Magazine’s cover story this week is on the “Influentials”. It was nice to see the name of our 18 month old venture capital firm on the list as we’ve been working hard to influence the direction of technology Read more

Mar 26, 2006

In our first "hello world" post on this blog, we made the point that the market we operate in is one of the most dynamic markets anywhere. We concluded that it made little sense to have a static investment strategy Read more

Mar 23, 2006

I said something on Heather Green’s podcast that I’d like to repeat on this blog. Heather asked me if our investment strategy was changing. I told her that when we raised Union Square Ventures’ first fund in late 2003 and Read more

Jan 20, 2006

Our portfolio company Indeed.com is doing some great stuff. For those who are not familiar with Indeed, it's a job search engine. Think Google for jobs. As Indeed says, "one search, all jobs". Give it a try. It's so simple and so Read more