# usv.com

> AI-optimized mirror of usv.com containing 1307 pages totalling 563,106 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://usv.com. Last updated: 2026-08-03T22:07:30.656Z.

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## Homepage

- [The Librarian](/content/microfiche/index.html) (329 words)
- [Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/index.html) (873 words)
- [Union Square Ventures](/content/site-root.html): Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. (96 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 164 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/164/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 163 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/163/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 162 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/162/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (425 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 161 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/161/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (424 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 160 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/160/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (362 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 159 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/159/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 158 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/158/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 157 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/157/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 154 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/154/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (294 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 156 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/156/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 153 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/153/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (412 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 155 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/155/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (388 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 152 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/152/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 151 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/151/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (421 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 154 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/154/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 153 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/153/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 150 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/150/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (434 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 149 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/149/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (431 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 152 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/152/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (368 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 151 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/151/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (396 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 148 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/148/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (420 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 150 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/150/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 147 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/147/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (407 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 149 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/149/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 146 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/146/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (382 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 148 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/148/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (393 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 145 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/145/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (250 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 147 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/147/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (396 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 144 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/144/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (375 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 146 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/146/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (396 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 143 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/143/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (369 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 145 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/145/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (373 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 142 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/142/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (406 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 144 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/144/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 141 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/141/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (322 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 140 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/140/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (387 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 143 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/143/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 142 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/142/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (397 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 139 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/139/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (406 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 138 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/138/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (368 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 141 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/141/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 140 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/140/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (433 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 137 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/137/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (360 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 136 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/136/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 135 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/135/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (409 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 139 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/139/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (429 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 134 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/134/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 133 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/133/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (438 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 138 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/138/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (407 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 137 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/137/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (404 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 132 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/132/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 136 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/136/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (399 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 131 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/131/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (374 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 135 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/135/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 134 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/134/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 130 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/130/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (365 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 133 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/133/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 129 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/129/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 132 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/132/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 128 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/128/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (384 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 131 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/131/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 127 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/127/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (385 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 130 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/130/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 126 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/126/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (272 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 129 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/129/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 125 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/125/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (369 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 128 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/128/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 124 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/124/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (441 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 123 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/123/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (344 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 127 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/127/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 122 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/122/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (353 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 126 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/126/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 121 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/121/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (259 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 125 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/125/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (411 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 120 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/120/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (400 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 119 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/119/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (280 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 124 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/124/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (396 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 118 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/118/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (398 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 123 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/123/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 117 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/117/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (325 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 116 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/116/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (315 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 122 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/122/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (386 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 115 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/115/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (387 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 121 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/121/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (416 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 114 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/114/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (377 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 120 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/120/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 113 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/113/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (360 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 119 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/119/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 112 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/112/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 118 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/118/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (416 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 111 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/111/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (398 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 117 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/117/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 110 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/110/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (267 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 116 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/116/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (431 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 109 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/109/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (239 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 115 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/115/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 108 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/108/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (291 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 114 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/114/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 107 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/107/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (351 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 106 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/106/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (402 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 113 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/113/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 112 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/112/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 105 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/105/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (357 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 104 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/104/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (363 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 111 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/111/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (429 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 103 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/103/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (398 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 110 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/110/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (410 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 102 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/102/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (368 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 101 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/101/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (410 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 100 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/100/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (334 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 99 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/99/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (417 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 105 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/105/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 98 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/98/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (439 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 104 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/104/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 97 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/97/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 103 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/103/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (433 words)
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- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 102 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/102/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (418 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 95 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/95/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (412 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 101 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/101/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 94 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/94/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (417 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 100 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/100/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 93 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/93/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (359 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 99 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/99/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 92 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/92/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 98 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/98/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 91 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/91/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (403 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 97 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/97/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 90 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/90/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (370 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 96 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/96/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (418 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 89 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/89/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (413 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 95 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/95/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (429 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 88 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/88/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (415 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 94 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/94/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 87 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/87/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (397 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 93 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/93/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 86 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/86/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (410 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 85 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/85/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (418 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 92 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/92/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 84 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/84/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (392 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 91 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/91/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (422 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 83 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/83/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (415 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 90 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/90/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 82 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/82/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 89 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/89/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (416 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 88 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/88/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (430 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 81 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/81/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 80 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/80/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (412 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 87 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/87/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (403 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 79 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/79/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (437 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 86 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/86/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (410 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 85 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/85/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 78 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/78/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 84 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/84/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (437 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 77 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/77/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (402 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 83 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/83/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 76 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/76/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (363 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 82 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/82/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 75 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/75/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (353 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 81 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/81/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 74 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/74/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 80 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/80/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (427 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 73 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/73/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (360 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 72 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/72/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (409 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 79 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/79/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 71 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/71/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (378 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 78 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/78/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 70 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/70/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (415 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 77 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/77/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (373 words)
- [Writing | Page 97 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/97/index.html): Often in our business you work on things for months and even years without being able to talk about them outside your immediate group of colleagues and family members. Secrecy is required for competitive or regulatory reasons. So it has been with me for the past 18 months. In October 2003, around the same time … (46 words)
- [Writing | Page 96 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/96/index.html): The morning paper this morning is not a pretty picture. New Orleans is flooded. Large swaths of the southeast are down and out. Energy prices are spiking. The war in Iraq shows no sign of ending anytime soon. Interest rates are headed up. The housing boom is showing signs of ending (finally). We have a … (258 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 69 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/69/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (400 words)
- [Writing | Page 95 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/95/index.html): I just finished John Battelle’s The Search. It’s a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and the internet. One of the things I that I enjoyed most in the book was John’s comparison of Google and Yahoo!. I won’t quote from the book here. If you … (274 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 68 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/68/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 76 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/76/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 94 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/94/index.html): www.flickr.com (228 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 67 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/67/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (407 words)
- [Writing | Page 93 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/93/index.html): Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says, “if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they’re very, very successful companies, they’re actually pretty generous in creating value for people outside the company”. This … (272 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 75 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/75/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (443 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 66 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/66/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (441 words)
- [Writing | Page 92 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/92/index.html): Many of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds). We’ve always thought that was wrong. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That’s the only way to think about the venture capital business that makes sense to … (276 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 74 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/74/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (362 words)
- [Writing | Page 91 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/91/index.html): 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 particular are no longer exist in their own world, they are increasingly part of the … (260 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 65 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/65/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (410 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 73 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/73/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (391 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 64 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/64/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 90 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/90/index.html): I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting. It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter from Del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo!), Bob Wyman from PubSub, which remains independent, and me. It … (263 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 72 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/72/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 63 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/63/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (391 words)
- [Writing | Page 89 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/89/index.html): 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 discussed in the blogs this weekend before it’s even announced by Redmond. We have … (282 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 71 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/71/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 62 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/62/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 88 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/88/index.html): Esther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an interesting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors who,. like us, are on the look out for ways of using services developed for consumers as a framework for business services. But figuring … (278 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 70 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/70/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (428 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 61 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/61/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (403 words)
- [Writing | Page 87 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/87/index.html): 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 serve advertising that is more relevant to the user’s interests. It’s a win/win/win situation. The … (272 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 69 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/69/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (410 words)
- [Writing | Page 86 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/86/index.html): 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 help us explore this issue. The policy professionals in the room argued that the outcome … (268 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 68 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/68/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 60 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/60/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (365 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 67 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/67/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (396 words)
- [Writing | Page 85 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/85/index.html): A year ago when we first re-launched our web site as a blog, we did so because we felt that the environment was too volatile for a fixed investment thesis. Instead we suggested that our thesis evolves in a dialogue with the market and that it made more sense for us to publish the conversation. … (272 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 59 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/59/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (428 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 66 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/66/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (397 words)
- [Writing | Page 84 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/84/index.html): A few weeks ago we mentioned that we were looking for the right person to replace Charlie, who had left us to take a product management position at Oddcast. Prior to this post, we had informally reached out to a few friends to let them know that we were looking for a talented person to … (264 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 58 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/58/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (400 words)
- [Writing | Page 83 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/83/index.html): Brad and I have been doing early stage investing since the late 80s (me) and early 90s (Brad). For most of our career, a typical early stage venture round was $5mm to $6mm and you’d put two firms together and each would invest $2.5mm to $3mm. So when we sat down to build the business … (279 words)
- [Writing | Page 82 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/82/index.html): I gave a keynote at the Information Industry Summit yesterday during the “preview session” which features emerging information businesses. We’ve been investing in information businesses for years at the various firms I’ve worked for and I’ve watched the business change a lot in recent years. So when I thought about what to talk about, I … (276 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 57 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/57/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 65 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/65/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Writing | Page 81 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/81/index.html): Union Square Ventures is launching a job board on our blog. The board contains open positions only at our portfolio companies. If you are interested in our investment thesis and our theories about internet trends, then you would likely enjoy working at one of our portfolio companies. We built our job board using a product … (270 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 64 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/64/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 80 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/80/index.html): Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner would decide once a year how big a listing to have in the yellow pages … (262 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 63 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/63/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 56 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/56/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (402 words)
- [Writing | Page 79 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/79/index.html): One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t make me sleep all day (when I should be adding features). If you have tried to build an Internet site or application recently that needs to work for thousands or tens of thousands of … (292 words)
- [Writing | Page 78 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/78/index.html): My friend Jeff Jarvis invited me to talk to his class yesterday. Jeff is doing something really cool. He’s teaching graduate students in journalism school how to be entrepreneurs. So these students graduate with the understanding that they have another option, they don’t have to go work for a media company. If they are so … (276 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 55 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/55/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 77 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/77/index.html): We closed on Union Square Ventures 2008 LP last week. Our new fund, at $156mm in capital ments, is large enough for us to be able to act on our conviction and to support our portfolio, but small enough to enable us to flexibly build positions in attractive, capital efficient, Web services. The investment focus … (270 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 62 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/62/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (441 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 54 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/54/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (373 words)
- [Writing | Page 76 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/76/index.html): Yesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The latest problem is the Census Bureau’s failure— after nearly four years and almost $600 million — to develop a reliable hand-held computer system for counting millions of … (263 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 61 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/61/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 75 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/75/index.html): Several months ago I ventured into the spooky economics of information with a post that suggested that data had an increasing marginal utility. A number of folks like Albert, who know a whole lot more about economics than I do, argue that it was not exactly an increasing marginal utility, but they acknowledged that there … (271 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 60 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/60/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Writing | Page 74 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/74/index.html): 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 up doing some after school work for Siemens. While I mostly wrote code on a … (252 words)
- [Eric Friedman | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/eric-friedman/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (98 words)
- [Writing | Page 73 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/73/index.html): Reputation is critical to most businesses, but on the Internet reputation takes on an even more important role. When you do business with a person or a company that you cannot see and you don’t know, you really need some data about their reputation. Some of the most successful businesses on the Internet are built … (271 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 59 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/59/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (417 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 53 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/53/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (397 words)
- [Eric Friedman | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/eric-friedman/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (71 words)
- [Writing | Page 72 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/72/index.html): There is an old and perhaps slightly shopworn saying in the venture business that you back the jockey and not the horse. But in markets undergoing dramatic transformation, where there is a real advantage to being quick on your feet, it is as true as ever. Dave Morgan, who founded Real Media and then TACODA, … (264 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 58 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/58/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 71 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/71/index.html): We are fascinated by the disruption underway in mobile applications. Carriers seem to have lost their role as gatekeepers for applications as smartphone sales are rapidly ramping and “app stores” or direct downloads are the new distribution models. This is exciting as it opens up a whole new arena for startups to compete in. Here … (260 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 52 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/52/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (377 words)
- [Writing | Page 70 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/70/index.html): Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We’d both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very different opinions about how to do it. Nathan believes the patent system is the answer, and I believe the patent system is the problem. The New York Times reported … (246 words)
- [Chou | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/gary-chou/page/2/index.html): Chou (45 words)
- [Writing | Page 69 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/69/index.html): This is a two-part update: first some notes on process and then some additional info on applicants. We managed to complete a first pass of all 616 applications (359 for Analyst and 257 for General Manager). As a next step we will conduct 75 telephone screens (47 for Analyst and 28 for General Manager). We … (297 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 51 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/51/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (374 words)
- [Chou | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/gary-chou/index.html): Chou (12 words)
- [Writing | Page 68 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/68/index.html): We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the most potential of all is the labor market. So we are excited to announce our latest investment – Work Market. Work Market is exactly what it sounds like, … (288 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 50 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/50/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (393 words)
- [Writing | Page 67 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/67/index.html): We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter’s new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious — in my case “working with” was literal — and have benefited since from his insights into social software. Joshua is starting Tasty Labs with … (277 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 56 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/56/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (398 words)
- [Writing | Page 66 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/66/index.html): 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 thing you notice is that messaging is the killer app. People like to talk … (277 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 55 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/55/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 49 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/49/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (374 words)
- [Writing | Page 65 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/65/index.html): As venture capitalists, we believe deeply in the value of decentralized, emergent, start-up innovation. The Internet has been an unusually fertile ground for this type of innovation largely because, for the first time in history, it has been possible to get directly to consumers without negotiating with entrenched intermediaries. The result has been a spectacular … (261 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 54 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/54/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (440 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 48 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/48/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (382 words)
- [Writing | Page 64 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/64/index.html): Union Square Ventures has a long history – in internet time at least – of hiring off this blog (posts here, here, and here.) A fundamental assumption of the way we’ve hired is that we’re able to get to know great people through their “web presence” – the trail of online communities, projects, and services … (286 words)
- [Writing | Page 63 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/63/index.html): We have previously written about why the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is bad for innovation. The same is true of the House version of this bill which is called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In fact, SOPA goes beyond PIPA in several important ways. For instance, SOPA contains anti-circumvention language that would essentially allow … (266 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 47 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/47/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (362 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 53 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/53/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (390 words)
- [Writing | Page 62 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/62/index.html): Today we are excited to bring together a group of thinkers and doers to USV to discuss how networks are transforming our society and economy (265 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 46 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/46/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (357 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 52 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/52/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (430 words)
- [Writing | Page 61 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/61/index.html): Last October, we posted about our search for a new analyst at USV. We received many outstanding applications and spent the fall reading blog posts, following Twitter streams, poking at side projects, and interviewing candidates. We met a number of extraordinary people through the process, and making one hire wasn’t easy. We also thought about … (276 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 45 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/45/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 51 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/51/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (385 words)
- [Writing | Page 60 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/60/index.html): We’ve blogged about many aspects of USV, including our investment thesis and our preferences on deal terms, but we’ve rarely shared our internal research on new markets and industries. On reflection, we’ve decided it would be better to make that work public. Starting today, we’ll share more of our preliminary work on specific markets, industries, … (270 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 50 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/50/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (370 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 44 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/44/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (406 words)
- [Writing | Page 59 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/59/index.html): What’s in your kitchen? Probably a stove, sink, running water, oven, refrigerator, cutlery and other utensils, sometimes a microwave oven. Precisely the same things as every commercial restaurant kitchen. Every kitchen is indeed an ad hoc restaurant waiting to happen. What do you do in your kitchen? Do you cook or express yourself? Probably a … (259 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 49 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/49/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (469 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 43 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/43/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 58 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/58/index.html): This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and cheaper for companies facing spurious infringement suits to defend themselves. This is not a complete fix for the software patent problem, and we absolutely need go further (more on how, … (270 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 48 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/48/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 42 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/42/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (326 words)
- [Writing | Page 57 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/57/index.html): Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; the number of radio stations to listen to music; the number of bookstores to buy books; and so-on. The Internet, however, fundamentally alters this dynamic, by vastly increasing the number of … (282 words)
- [Brittany Laughlin | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/brittany-laughlin/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (48 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 47 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/47/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (472 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 41 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/41/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (393 words)
- [Writing | Page 56 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/56/index.html): Announcing the investment in Sidecar that USV made last summer (214 words)
- [Brittany Laughlin | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/brittany-laughlin/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (71 words)
- [Writing | Page 55 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/55/index.html): Web services, like governments, don’t make anything, they just create the conditions necessary for their users to create value. Today’s largest networks have demonstrated this to be true. Passionate communities have been born out of services like Twitter and Meetup. Entire businesses have been built off – and on top of – companies like Kickstarter … (277 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 40 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/40/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (429 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 46 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/46/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (467 words)
- [Writing | Page 54 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/54/index.html): As Nick, Jonathan and Fred have shared, this January we’re busy rolling out updates to USV.com. The core idea behind USV.com is to open source our thinking — to do in public, with the great community of people that has been growing around the site, what we normally do internally at USV. Today, we’re launching … (278 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 39 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/39/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (357 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 45 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/45/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (441 words)
- [Writing | Page 53 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/53/index.html): La Ruche qui dit Oui! (the hive that says yes) is a marketplace that connects farmers to people who want farm fresh food in their kitchens and on their tables. We got to know the company last winter when my friends Simon and Toby from Mosaic introduced me to Marc-David Choukroun, one of the two founders … (264 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 38 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/38/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (401 words)
- [Writing | Page 52 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/52/index.html): Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of view is the primary thing that guides our decision making. We last wrote about this … (300 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 44 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/44/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (398 words)
- [Writing | Page 51 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/51/index.html): We are kicking off another search for an analyst at Union Square Ventures (USV). As in the past, we will recruit for this position using an open process. While this results in a lot of work sorting through applications, we are often inspired and always learn something when we engage with potential candidates. We also … (270 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 37 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/37/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (416 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 43 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/43/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (432 words)
- [Writing | Page 50 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/50/index.html): Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications Here’s one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable amounts of value, but most of it got captured and re-aggregated on top at the applications layer, largely in the … (277 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 36 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/36/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (437 words)
- [Writing | Page 49 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/49/index.html): Nurx is a service that today prescribes and delivers medication from a mobile app and in doing so is redefining the doctor-patient relationship and the practice of primary care. We are announcing today that USV had led the company's latest round of financing. (299 words)
- [Writing | Page 48 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/48/index.html): Union Square Ventures has made a substantial investment in Tucows, a 23 year old company company that has been publicly traded for over 15 years. Since we have never before invested in a public company, that requires a bit of an explanation. (239 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 42 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/42/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 35 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/35/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 41 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/41/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (449 words)
- [Writing | Page 47 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/47/index.html): Protocol Labs made a series of announcements earlier today including that Union Square Ventures made an equity investment in the company late last year. We are thrilled to be working with Juan Benet and his team and excited to be able to share some of our thinking here. (470 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 40 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/40/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 34 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/34/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (403 words)
- [Writing | Page 46 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/46/index.html): I am excited to share that I am joining the Union Square Ventures partnership alongside Albert, Andy, Fred, John, Brad, and the rest of the fantastic USV team. (371 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 39 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/39/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (401 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 38 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/38/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Writing | Page 45 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/45/index.html): We are excited to announce that we are recruiting two new analysts at USV. Analysts at USV are part of the investment team and work closely with partners both on current portfolio and potential new investments. They gain exposure to our large network of startup and growth companies, as well as insight into our investment decision process. (385 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 33 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/33/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (415 words)
- [Writing | Page 44 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/44/index.html): A second quick update on our analyst hiring process (previous update, original announcement). We have now reviewed all applications. We will be reaching out this week to all candidates, starting with those who have made it to the next stage, which will be telephone interviews. (402 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 32 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/32/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (419 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 37 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/37/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (438 words)
- [Writing | Page 43 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/43/index.html): I’m Zach, one of the new analysts at USV. I'm excited to be a part of this team and eager to find and support entrepreneurs on their quests to innovate. (303 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 31 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/31/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (436 words)
- [Writing | Page 37 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/37/index.html): At a Sofar, you are sitting on the floor in a room full of mostly strangers, listening to artists you’ve never heard of, perhaps in a city you’ve never been to before, and yet it’s possible to feel comfortable and content. Why does this work, and at scale? Recently, we’ve been thinking about what goes into … (281 words)
- [Writing | Page 42 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/42/index.html): People have been trying to build distributed compute networks since the 1990’s; In 1996, GIMPS used distributed compute to search for prime numbers and in 1999, Seti@Home used volunteers’ compute power to search for extraterrestrial life. Now 25 years later, the final pieces seem to be in place. Cryptocurrency makes possible machine-to-machine payments, which allows … (250 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 36 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/36/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (530 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 30 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/30/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (411 words)
- [Writing | Page 41 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/41/index.html): We gathered over 450 software tools used across 64 companies, representing approximately 86% of our active portfolio. We began by tagging each tool based on department, the type of tool, and then explored how company size impacted usage. (281 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 35 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/35/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (417 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 29 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/29/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (404 words)
- [Writing | Page 40 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/40/index.html): Differentiated user experiences are a cornerstone of the defensible businesses that USV has invested in for over 10 years. In the most recent articulation of our thesis – 3.0 – we also stressed experiences and trusted brands that expand access to, for example, knowledge. Trusted services are those that have business models that better align … (199 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 28 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/28/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (409 words)
- [Writing | Page 39 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/39/index.html): Back in October I read a blog post penned by my now colleague Bethany Crystal about the launch of the USV Talent Network. At the time, I was consulting the French government on how they could attract more American growth stage talent to work at the most promising French startups. I sent a cold email … (308 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 34 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/34/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 38 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/38/index.html): About a year ago Code Climate announced its Velocity offering which provides engineering insights. Today they are taking the wraps off Version 2.0 for everyone. Existing customers have already had access to many of the new features. I am writing about this today because the whole history of the Velocity offering is illustrative of the right way to … (336 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 27 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/27/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (421 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 33 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/33/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (445 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 32 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/32/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 36 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/36/index.html): A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra, was announced today. Libra has been incubated by Facebook.  USV will be one of the founding members of the governing body, the Libra Association.  Libra is a stable, fiat-backed cryptocurrency that will launch inside some of the world’s largest consumer-facing applications.   We believe Libra has the potential to … (281 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 26 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/26/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (403 words)
- [Writing | Page 35 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/35/index.html): As investors in Algorand and node runners on the network, we welcome the first Algorand Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP). Since the launch of the mainnet and the start of trading of the Algo it has become clear that the daily supply growth is too large relative to the state of adoption. Algorand is in its … (330 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 31 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/31/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 25 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/25/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (410 words)
- [Writing | Page 34 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/34/index.html): We are thrilled to be welcoming the Arweave team to the USV portfolio. Part of USV’s most recent investment thesis is about investing in companies that broaden access to knowledge and Arweave is doing exactly that by building a self-sustaining, community-run archival storage network. Archives are extremely important: the survival and ongoing availability of knowledge … (270 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 24 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/24/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 30 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/30/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (417 words)
- [Writing | Page 33 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/33/index.html): Last week CoverWallet, one of our portfolio companies, was acquired by Aon, one of the world’s leading companies focused on insurance. CoverWallet was launched in early 2016 by its co-founders Inaki and Rashmi to reinvent commercial insurance by leveraging technology, the speed of the internet, great product design, customer service and data science. At the … (272 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 29 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/29/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (406 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 23 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/23/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (54 words)
- [Writing | Page 32 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/32/index.html): After reviewing 345 applications, interviewing 30 candidates, and inviting 11 to meet us in person, we are excited to announce that we have 3 incredible analysts joining USV in the coming weeks. We recognize that our process is a bit different and arduous for both the candidates as well as our team, but we couldn’t … (254 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 23 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/23/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 22 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/22/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (334 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 28 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/28/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 31 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/31/index.html): It’s kind of sad that HQ Trivia, a mobile live game show, is no longer running. This should be its moment. Much of the world has spent the last week quarantined in their homes and are unable to watch live sports as every league has suspended play. Currently, the news is the only live event … (252 words)
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- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 27 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/27/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 22 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/22/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (417 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 21 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/21/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (440 words)
- [Writing | Page 30 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/30/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities (we apologize for the delay on the Q1 reporting and our intention is to report on a quarterly basis going forward). Entities and financial relationships: USV’s … (276 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 26 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/26/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (397 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 21 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/21/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 29 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/29/index.html): Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for the last decade or so. The shift from language textbooks to CDs was a 1.0->2.0 transition: it digitized the model of an in-person language class to scale learning across millions … (293 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 20 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/20/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (367 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 25 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/25/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (409 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 20 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/20/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 17 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/17/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (147 words)
- [Writing | Page 28 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/28/index.html): At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process.  It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone.  Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like a hose over the crowd.   It’s also like being on the line in a commercial … (282 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 19 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/19/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (410 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 24 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/24/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (413 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/16/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (441 words)
- [Writing | Page 27 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/27/index.html): We are pleased to announce that USV has raised a 2021 Core Fund with commitments of $250 million. This Core Fund will complement our new Climate Fund and existing Opportunity Fund. This will be USV’s seventh early-stage venture fund since the firm was founded in 2003.  As before, we continue to invest with a thesis-driven … (272 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 19 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/19/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Writing | Page 26 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/26/index.html): In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick…sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”  Even though Sontag’s book was published over forty … (266 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 23 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/23/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (437 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 18 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/18/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (423 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 15 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/15/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (430 words)
- [Writing | Page 25 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/25/index.html): This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Electrifying buildings will play a critical role in managing our carbon budget.  Nearly 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to powering residential and commercial properties (Figure 1).  Worldwide residential emissions alone are roughly equivalent to Europe’s entire … (276 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 22 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/22/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (423 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 18 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/18/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (404 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 17 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/17/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (411 words)
- [Writing | Page 24 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/24/index.html): Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we wind up generating that electricity without carbon emissions. Renewable energy, including wind, hydro and solar will play a big role in this. Yet there are many reasons why those alone are unlikely to … (269 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 21 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/21/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (322 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/14/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (405 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 18 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/18/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (172 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 17 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/17/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (413 words)
- [Writing | Page 23 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/23/index.html): Increased mobility is one of the great accomplishments of the industrial age. We can get to places much faster whether it is for work, to visit friends and family, for sightseeing, or to participate in an event. Those gains, however, have come at a variety of costs, including a major contribution to the climate crisis … (272 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 17 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/17/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (376 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 20 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/20/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (312 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/16/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (315 words)
- [Writing | Page 22 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/22/index.html): In 2015, we invested in Carta (FKA eShares) and wrote, “Anyone who owns shares or options in a private company instinctively knows that cap table management remains frustratingly analog…The collection and management of this information is a thankless task but critical to our business.” The same can be said for financial identity verification. Today, individuals … (239 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/16/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (400 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 19 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/19/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (413 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 15 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/15/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (381 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 13 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/13/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (430 words)
- [Writing | Page 21 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/21/index.html): For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or more browsers. But early on this was a chicken and egg problem. There were a variety of ways this problem got solved including AOL sending out millions of … (260 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/16/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (390 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 15 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/15/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (402 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 18 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/18/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (378 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/14/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (365 words)
- [Writing | Page 20 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/20/index.html): Diverse teams build better businesses1.  To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 we saw that 80% of participating companies did not collect demographic data from their employees. In 2022, 62% … (282 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 15 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/15/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (354 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 12 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/12/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (441 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/14/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (395 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 17 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/17/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (390 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 13 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/13/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (403 words)
- [Writing | Page 19 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/19/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Excess inventory is one of the worst-kept secrets in ecommerce.  Brands overproduce more than $500B of goods annually.  In categories like cosmetics, less than 50% of inventory is sold within a 12-month window.  For the items that do sell, only 20 – 30% do so at full price.  The remaining goods … (240 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/14/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (409 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 13 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/13/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (403 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/11/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (421 words)
- [Writing | Page 18 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/18/index.html): From the electrification of end-uses such as vehicles and heating to storage supporting intermittent renewables, many emission-reduction efforts rely heavily on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. But today’s batteries are not up to the task. They are not designed to be as ubiquitous as the electrified economy needs them to be. Instead, they are bulky, rigid, and … (288 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 16 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/16/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (403 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 13 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/13/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (409 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 12 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/12/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (409 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 15 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/15/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (401 words)
- [Writing | Page 17 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/17/index.html): Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: “How does it feel?”  This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science that tackled the messiness and complexity of human feeling with an intensely directed focus. The emphasis on emotion eventually reached the tech world, too, giving rise to a focus on … (289 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/10/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (396 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 12 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/12/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (395 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/11/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (420 words)
- [Writing | Page 16 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/16/index.html): Co-authored with Rebecca Kaden Last week USV and Reach Capital co-hosted the AI Learning Summit. We welcomed over 75 builders, founders, educators, students, and policy makers into our library for a day of demoing fresh projects and discussing the ways in which learning and AI will intersect. This dialogue was a continuation of one USV … (256 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 14 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/14/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (413 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 12 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/12/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (404 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/11/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (400 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 9 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/9/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (419 words)
- [Writing | Page 15 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/15/index.html): We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs to be limited partners in venture capital funds without having to invest their own capital. Instead, the Historic Fund will use capital provided by the individual partners of … (275 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/10/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (413 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/11/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (395 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 13 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/13/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (377 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/10/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (408 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 9 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/9/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (417 words)
- [Writing | Page 14 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/14/index.html): In March of this year, the IPCC reported that global surface temperature for the years 2011-2020 had reached an average of 1.1°C higher than pre-industrial levels. This unequivocally came as a result of human activity, principally through the emission of greenhouse gasses.  In this report, the IPCC stated it had high confidence that global warming … (274 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 8 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/8/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (405 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/10/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 12 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/12/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 10](/content/people/brad-burnham/page/10/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (187 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 8 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/8/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (438 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 9 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/9/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (398 words)
- [Writing | Page 13 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/13/index.html): The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to build new types of networks around social media and communications.  When we talk about social media as it currently exists, we think about algorithmically organized feeds that present to us different forms of … (289 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 9 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/9/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (414 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 11 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/11/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (414 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures | Page 9 of 10](/content/people/brad-burnham/page/9/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (412 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 7 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/7/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (366 words)
- [Writing | Page 12 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/12/index.html): Co-authored with Jared Hecht A new pattern is emerging that we are excited about at USV: entrepreneurs are upgrading physical industries with an AI-first and vertically integrated approach. Instead of selling software to industry incumbents, startups are increasingly deciding to use their technical know-how to compete head-on.  We think this approach is especially important for … (267 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 8 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/8/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (407 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 8 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/8/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (435 words)
- [David Gabeau](/content/people/david-gabeau/page/2/index.html): David Gabeau joined Union Square Ventures in March 2020. Before USV, David was a Quality Engineer on the Collaboration Team at Lyft, building products that connect the rider and driver. He has also worked on the Broadcast team at Snapchat, building products around stories. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, he studied Psychology at New York University before leaving during his Sophomore year to attend a programming bootcamp. (184 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 7 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/7/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (379 words)
- [Writing | Page 11 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/11/index.html): Progress in artificial intelligence has come in the form of a bag of tricks, some of which have proven to be unreasonably effective: word embeddings as a way of representing semantic similarity; the attention mechanism for contextualization; self-supervised learning on curated datasets; instruction tuning of models; reinforcement learning based on human feedback. The key to … (302 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures | Page 8 of 10](/content/people/brad-burnham/page/8/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (430 words)
- [Infrastructure for the New Economy Archives | Page 3 of 3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/infrastructure-for-the-new-economy/page/3/index.html) (137 words)
- [Climate Archives | Page 5 of 5 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/climate/page/5/index.html) (45 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 10 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/10/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (404 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 7 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/7/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (417 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 6 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/6/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (407 words)
- [David Gabeau](/content/people/david-gabeau/index.html): David Gabeau joined Union Square Ventures in March 2020. Before USV, David was a Quality Engineer on the Collaboration Team at Lyft, building products that connect the rider and driver. He has also worked on the Broadcast team at Snapchat, building products around stories. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, he studied Psychology at New York University before leaving during his Sophomore year to attend a programming bootcamp. (71 words)
- [Infrastructure for the New Economy Archives | Page 2 of 3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/infrastructure-for-the-new-economy/page/2/index.html) (415 words)
- [USV Updates Archives | Page 8 of 8 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-updates/page/8/index.html) (183 words)
- [Writing | Page 10 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/10/index.html): Over the past twenty years, internet-native entertainment companies across social media and gaming have been able to create large networks of engaged users without having to pay for content creation. They relied on user-generated content (e.g., social media) to attract and retain an audience, and that innovation has captivated billions of people across the globe … (238 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 7 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/7/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (393 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 6 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/6/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (425 words)
- [Climate Archives | Page 4 of 5 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/climate/page/4/index.html) (393 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 6 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/6/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (387 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures | Page 7 of 10](/content/people/brad-burnham/page/7/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (405 words)
- [Writing | Page 9 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/9/index.html): The healthcare system can sometimes feel like it’s not working on our behalf, leading to a loss of trust. When trust erodes, we lose our sense of empowerment. Our sense of agency disappears. Outcomes deteriorate.  This isn’t inevitable. Instead, people-driven exploration, sharing, and collaboration around health are ways to bring back trust. And when trust … (212 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 6 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/6/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (433 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 5 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/5/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (396 words)
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Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. (43 words)
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- [Rebecca Kaden | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 4](/content/people/rebecca-kaden/page/3/index.html): Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was  a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund. Rebecca was born in New York City. She studied English and American Literature at Harvard and received her MBA from Stanford. (408 words)
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- [Jennifer Greenberg | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/jennifer-greenberg/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (66 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/3/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (419 words)
- [USV Updates Archives | Page 4 of 8 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-updates/page/4/index.html) (413 words)
- [Brian Watson | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/brian-watson/index.html): Brian Watson (13 words)
- [Access to Wellbeing Archives | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/access-to-wellbeing/index.html) (291 words)
- [Lauren Young | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/lauren-young/page/2/index.html): Lauren Young leads post-investment portfolio support for the Union Square Ventures' network. She oversees the process of creating, launching, and scaling programs and community development for our portfolio CEOs, Founders and Executives from 140+ companies. Prior to joining the USV team in 2014, she held the position of Assistant Director of Operations for the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. She received an undergraduate degree in Finance from Siena College and a Master of Business Administration in 2012 from Union Graduate College. Lauren grew up in Upstate New York and lives in Manhattan with her family. (408 words)
- [Andrew Parker | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/andrew-parker/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (265 words)
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- [Samson Mesele | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/samson-mesele/page/2/index.html): Samson Mesele is Partner and General Counsel at Union Square Ventures. He began his legal career as a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where he advised public and private companies, private equity firms and boards of directors across a broad range of transactions and industries. Samson received his B.S. in economics from Duke and his J.D. from Yale Law School. As a law student, Samson served as a Teaching Fellow for Financial Theory in the Economics Department at Yale. Before attending law school, Samson worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Samson is from Charlotte, North Carolina. (262 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 17](/content/people/bethany-crystal/page/2/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (415 words)
- [Jed Schmidt | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/jed-schmidt/index.html): Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.
Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. (100 words)
- [Charlie O'Donnell | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/charlie-odonnell/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (188 words)
- [Continuing the Venture Climate Alliance](/content/blog/continuing-the-venture-climate-alliance/index.html): Last April, USV joined the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), a group of venture capital firms committed to achieving a rapid transition to net zero gre... (345 words)
- [Zach Goldstein | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/zach-goldstein-2/page/2/index.html): Zach Goldstein joined Union Square Ventures in February 2018. Prior to USV, Zach was a Product Manager at Slice, a NYC-based startup where he was the first business hire and helped grow the product and operations teams. He began his career at BlackRock as an institutional investment consulting analyst. Zach sits on the board of the Hebrew Educational Society and Northwestern University Hillel. He has a degree from Northwestern University in Economics and Psychology, and is a CFA charterholder. (140 words)
- [Access to Knowledge | Union Square Ventures](/content/idea/access-to-knowledge/index.html): We believe technology will make it easier and more affordable to learn, access existing knowledge, and contribute to human progress. (72 words)
- [Trusted Brands | Union Square Ventures](/content/idea/trusted-brands/index.html): Trust is the foundation for lasting defensibility among the most enduring businesses.  We believe that brands are built around promises, and trust means (69 words)
- [Writing | Page 3 of 97 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/page/3/index.html): In the original designs for the World Wide Web, there was a clear line drawn between the services people interacted with (websites), and the software they used to access those websites (browsers). An important distinction was that while the websites were under the control of the publishers, the browsers were under the control of the … (192 words)
- [Access to Wellbeing | Union Square Ventures](/content/idea/access-to-wellbeing/index.html): We think of wellbeing as physical and mental wellness as well as happiness and fulfillment. We believe digital processes will drive down cost, increase (41 words)
- [Andy Weissman | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 23](/content/people/andy-weissman/page/2/index.html): Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown. (403 words)
- [Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures](/content/jobs/jobs/lithos/f1b0d3d7-e40b-4074-bc6f-5da577e020a2/index.html): Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures (792 words)
- [What we’ve learned about AI learning](/content/blog/what-weve-learned-about-ai-learning/index.html): It's been over a year since Albert shared his vision for 'tutors for everyone,' and we're all the more convinced that AI will not only make knowledge more accessible, but also unlock radically new learning experiences. The sad truth is that our institutional education system remains fundamentally broken and unable to keep pace with the technological changes happening all around us. This isn’t anyone’s fault per se, but simply the very nature of institutions being better suited for incremental... (660 words)
- [Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures](/content/jobs/jobs/david-energy/acf4dfa2-c763-4b72-847b-bf7687ddd131/index.html): Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures (352 words)
- [Portfolio Network Archives | Page 2 of 3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-network/page/2/index.html) (461 words)
- [Dani Grant | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 4](/content/people/dani-grant/page/3/index.html): Dani Grant is an analyst at Union Square Ventures. Dani comes from the Product Strategy team Cloudflare, where she was a part of growing the IPv6 internet, helping provide DNS service to the F-Root server, and launching the fastest DNS resolver, 1.1.1.1. Before Cloudflare, Dani was an intern on BuzzFeed’s product team, designed infographics for Young & Rubicam, spent time on the Ogilvy team in Shanghai, China, and flew to Bhutan with Matternet to use drones to transport medical supplies. (377 words)
- [The rebel alliance](/content/blog/the-rebel-alliance/index.html): This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante, and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, 'You don't own your memory.' We need an open architecture that puts us in control of our memories while making their exploitation technically impossible. But how will this shift happen? In order to discover possible implementations, we must understand how our data informs LLMs. The three predominant context engineering techniques are prompt design, retrieval-augmented ... (731 words)
- [Jennifer Greenberg | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/jennifer-greenberg/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (71 words)
- [Deep reals](/content/blog/deep-reals/index.html): It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit comments, Drake resurr... (28 words)
- [John Buttrick | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 2](/content/people/john-buttrick/page/2/index.html): John Buttrick is a partner at Union Square Ventures, joining the firm in 2010. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Paris and was a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group from 1994-2000. Between 2000 and 2010 John was involved in a number of private equity and venture projects. He has been a member of the Board of Environmental Advocates of New York since 2004 and currently serves as Board Chair. John majored in American Studies at Northwestern University and has a JD degree from Villanova University School of Law. John is a native New Yorker. (455 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 4 of 170](/content/people/albert-wenger/page/4/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (272 words)
- [Hannah Murdoch | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/hannah-murdoch/page/2/index.html): Hannah Murdoch joined Union Square Ventures in March 2020.  Prior to USV, Hannah worked on product & investment strategy at Google[X], Alphabet’s moonshot incubator.  Before her time at Google, Hannah was a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s New York office working across public & private sector finance as well as on research with the McKinsey Global Institute.  Hannah studied Systems Engineering and Economics at the University of Virginia and worked in UVa’s behavioral economics lab.  She has also studied at the London School of Economics. (405 words)
- [Farcaster](/content/blog/farcaster/index.html): In 2007 USV invested in Twitter and Zynga. Both of these companies taught us valuable lessons.Twitter demonstrated how open social networks could cha... (752 words)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/joining-union-square-ventures-michael-mignano/index.html): More than a decade ago, I had the privilege of pitching USV when I was raising capital for the podcasting startup I was building at the time, Anchor. While I dreaded many fundraising pitches, I was excited for this one, for a few reasons. First, USV was one of the world's most legendary and best performing venture firms, especially in New York, where I’m from and where we were building the company. Second, I knew they were into products that more mainstream VCs wouldn't touch, and few others ... (634 words)
- [Jared Hecht | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 4](/content/people/jared-hechtusv-com/page/3/index.html): Jared Hecht is a Venture Partner at Union Square Ventures. Prior to joining USV, he was the founder of Fundera (acquired by Nerdwallet) and GroupMe (acquired by Skype/MSFT) and an angel investor. Jared majored in political science at Columbia University. He is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn. (340 words)
- [USV Analyst Program 2026: Heads Up](/content/blog/usv-analyst-program-2026-heads-up/index.html): TL;DR: We’re hiring new analysts. Applications will go up on our blog and across our socials in two weeks and will only be live for two weeks after that. Please help us share this announcement. People are often surprised to learn that throughout USV’s 22-year history, the investment team has been entirely composed of a handful of general partners and 1-3 analysts. Analysts are full members of the investment team that engage in all aspects of the venture capital job. They help us expand our th... (576 words)
- [Tasklet](/content/blog/tasklet/index.html): In the past year, we've roughly doubled the size of our team at USV — not by hiring more people, but by building AI agents that work alongside us. These agents research companies, review legal documents, write code & build apps, maintain our internal databases and much more. They aren't just chatbots who answer the occasional question – they’re digital teammates, integrated in our team spaces and handling real operational tasks. The platform we built them on is Tasklet, and today we are excit... (431 words)
- [Grace Carney | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 3](/content/people/grace-carney/page/3/index.html): Grace joined Union Square Ventures in January 2023.  She began her career at Bain, before completing a one-year climate externship at Silver Lake.  Grace is originally from London, England and has a BA in Social Studies from Harvard. (62 words)
- [Joel Monegro | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/joel-monegro/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (228 words)
- [The Librarian](/content/people/the-librarian/page/2/index.html): The Librarian is the connective tissue of USV’s institutional knowledge—part archivist, part systems thinker, and full-time builder of durable context. Operating at the intersection of data stewardship and human curiosity, they’ve built tools that don’t just store knowledge, but surface insight. Whether it’s structuring our meeting archives or fine-tuning GPT-powered workflows, The Librarian ensures that everything we learn—every pattern, every anomaly, every moment of clarity—is findable, contextualized, and compounding. In a world where information decay is the norm, The Librarian builds the antidote. (282 words)
- [USV Investment Thesis Archives | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-investment-thesis/index.html) (328 words)
- [Nick Grossman | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 18](/content/people/nick-grossman/page/2/index.html): Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Nick began his career in the urban planning space, and his previous company was an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data, focused on open-source and community-driven solutions to urban challenges.  Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children. (232 words)
- [Gillian Munson | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/gillian-munson/page/2/index.html): Gillian Munson is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Prior to joining, Gillian was the CFO of XO Group (parent of The Knot), a public company, which she and her team sold in late 2018. Gillian’s career includes tenures as an equity analyst, a M&A leader, and a banker and early stage investor. Gillian has a BA from The Colorado College, serves on the Boards of Sweet Briar College and the St Regis Foundation. Gillian lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. (230 words)
- [Fund Structure Archives | Page 3 of 3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/fund-structure/page/3/index.html):     (233 words)
- [Union Square Ventures - Page 2](/content/blog/p/2/index.html): Page 2 of posts from Union Square Ventures (14 words)
- [Welcoming Mike Mignano to the USV Partnership](/content/blog/welcoming-mike-mignano-to-the-usv-partnership-1/index.html): We're thrilled to welcome Mike Mignano to the USV partnership. Mike has been part of the NYC ecosystem and a friend of USV for over a decade. Many of us first got to know him when he was raising capital for Anchor, the company he built and later sold to Spotify. We didn't invest, but we started a relationship that stuck. When Mike joined Lightspeed, we had the chance to coinvest, work on boards together, push each other on theses, and understand how he thinks about companies, people, and oppo... (364 words)
- [Jess Oynick](/content/people/jess-oynick/page/2/index.html): Jess Oynick has spent her career helping others build theirs. As the head of talent at USV, she works across the portfolio to build, engage and retain best in class teams. Prior to joining USV, Jess led talent at Coatue Management, Benchmark Capital and Solv Health., Jess Oynick has spent her career helping others build theirs. As the head of talent at USV, she works across the portfolio to build, engage and retain best in class teams. Prior to joining USV, Jess led talent at Coatue Management, Benchmark Capital and Solv Health. (8 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures | Page 3 of 10](/content/people/brad-burnham/page/3/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (401 words)
- [Hanel Baveja | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 2](/content/people/hanel-baveja/page/2/index.html): Hanel Baveja joined Union Square Ventures in February 2020. Prior to USV, Hanel was on the investment team at Insight Partners, a NYC-based growth stage software-focused fund. She has also worked on the business development team at Vettery, as an economics research assistant, a short story editor and writer, and a camp counselor. Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, she studied Economics and Creative Writing at Harvard (with an intermission studying Art History and French in Aix-en-Provence, France) before moving to New York City. (421 words)
- [Union Square Ventures - Page 7](/content/blog/p/7/index.html): Page 7 of posts from Union Square Ventures (54 words)
- [The Future of Programmable Everything Runs on Efficient Energy: Efficient Computer's Series A ](/content/blog/the-future-of-programmable-everything-runs-on-efficient-energy-efficient-computers-series-a.html): The world is becoming programmable and, increasingly, easy to program. But the underlying and consistent current running through this massive and systemic wave is a need for abundant, efficient energy. The rate of change makes what’s possible feel unbounded but energy is the prime constraint. For a long time, we’ve believed at USV that the most interesting opportunities emerge from creating and accessing unique datasets that are self-improving. Historically, these have existed inside software... (360 words)
- [Cactos](/content/blog/cactos/index.html): The dramatic reduction in the cost of solar energy means we can cheaply produce clean power– but only when the sun is out. Batteries are a natural companion to solar, capable of soaking up surplus energy when the sun is shining, and using that energy or feeding it back to the grid at night. Fortunately, batteries are following a similar reduction in cost to solar, coming down 90% in the last decade alone. As batteries continue down the cost curve, they’re becoming increasingly attractive as a... (554 words)
- [Rebecca Kaden | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 4](/content/people/rebecca-kaden/page/2/index.html): Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was  a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund. Rebecca was born in New York City. She studied English and American Literature at Harvard and received her MBA from Stanford. (420 words)
- [Christina Cacioppo | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/christina-cacioppo/page/2/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (319 words)
- [USV Updates Archives | Page 3 of 8 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-updates/page/3/index.html) (424 words)
- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 154](/content/people/fred-wilson/page/2/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (352 words)
- [You Can Just Program Biology
](/content/blog/you-can-just-program-biology/index.html): The Information Age was a consequence of two developments: the ability to work with information programmatically and the democratization of that capability. We are now entering a similar period in biology. We can now program life itself with the ever cheaper tools of synthetic biology. We believe this era of programmable biology will spark a new wave of entrepreneurs who push the limits of what biology can do. (630 words)
- [USV Investment Thesis | Union Square Ventures](/content/thread/usv-investment-thesis/index.html): The USV investment thesis is an evolving set of core ideas that guide our investing. (29 words)
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- [Mona Alsubaei | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 2](/content/people/mona-alsubaei/page/2/index.html): Mona Alsubaei is part of the investment team at USV. Before USV, Mona worked at CrossBoundary, an emerging markets investment advisory firm. She grew the firm's Middle East and Central Asia presence. Mona started her career in policy and international economics at the United Nations. 

Mona is a global nomad. She has lived and worked in over eight countries but always has a special place in her heart for her hometown – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (404 words)
- [Matt Cynamon | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/matt-cynamon/page/2/index.html): Matt, who proudly goes by the title of “Regular at USV,” spends his time making tools and conversing with friendly robots. He works on projects that bring USV’s teams closer to big ideas, helping them collaborate more smoothly, communicate publicly, and stay inspired.. With one foot in the present and a curious eye on the future, he explores what’s possible at the edge of technology, building tools that bring a touch of science fiction into everyday work. (272 words)
- [Lauren Young | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/lauren-young/index.html): Lauren Young leads post-investment portfolio support for the Union Square Ventures' network. She oversees the process of creating, launching, and scaling programs and community development for our portfolio CEOs, Founders and Executives from 140+ companies. Prior to joining the USV team in 2014, she held the position of Assistant Director of Operations for the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. She received an undergraduate degree in Finance from Siena College and a Master of Business Administration in 2012 from Union Graduate College. Lauren grew up in Upstate New York and lives in Manhattan with her family. (100 words)
- [Bethany Crystal | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/bethany-crystal/index.html): Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat. (166 words)
- [Zach Goldstein | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/zach-goldstein-2/index.html): Zach Goldstein joined Union Square Ventures in February 2018. Prior to USV, Zach was a Product Manager at Slice, a NYC-based startup where he was the first business hire and helped grow the product and operations teams. He began his career at BlackRock as an institutional investment consulting analyst. Zach sits on the board of the Hebrew Educational Society and Northwestern University Hillel. He has a degree from Northwestern University in Economics and Psychology, and is a CFA charterholder. (82 words)
- [Matt Mandel | Union Square Ventures | Page 2 of 2](/content/people/matt-mandel/page/2/index.html): Matt Mandel joined Union Square Ventures in January 2023. Before USV, Matt worked at AeroFarms, a vertical farming startup. He started at AeroFarms as chief of staff before transitioning to the corporate development team, where he focused on building new vertical farms and developing strategic partnerships around the globe. Matt studied Philosophy and Computer Science at Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors. (334 words)
- [Samson Mesele | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/samson-mesele/index.html): Samson Mesele is Partner and General Counsel at Union Square Ventures. He began his legal career as a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where he advised public and private companies, private equity firms and boards of directors across a broad range of transactions and industries. Samson received his B.S. in economics from Duke and his J.D. from Yale Law School. As a law student, Samson served as a Teaching Fellow for Financial Theory in the Economics Department at Yale. Before attending law school, Samson worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Samson is from Charlotte, North Carolina. (106 words)
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- [2024 USV Core Fund](/content/blog/2024-usv-core-fund/index.html): We recently started investing out of our newest USV Core Fund. As with each of our previous funds, while it is a new vehicle, our approach will stay the same: small fund, thesis driven, high conviction, and low velocity. We’ll focus on being long term and dedicated partners to a small number of teams creating projects and businesses that are aligned with our thesis. We’ll continue to commit once and then partner with the companies throughout their lifetimes. We run a collaborative partnership... (655 words)
- [Christina Cacioppo | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/christina-cacioppo/index.html): "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." (148 words)
- [Rebecca Kaden | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/rebecca-kaden/index.html): Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was  a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund. Rebecca was born in New York City. She studied English and American Literature at Harvard and received her MBA from Stanford. (101 words)
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- [Doctronic](/content/blog/doctronic/index.html): How would you create a system that offers more healthcare, to more people, at lower prices and high quality? What if you designed it purely around the needs of patients? This question drove Dr. Adam Oskowitz and Matt Pavelle to build Doctronic. Not just another healthcare app, but a first-principles reimagining of direct-to-consumer care in an AI-native world. They've created a system offering private, personalized care available 24/7 across all states, powered by better information processin... (359 words)
- [The Rebel Alliance](/content/blog/the-rebel-alliance-2/index.html): We believe that the AI opportunity is too big and too important to be owned by any one company. Instead, we see a massive ecosystem emerging around the agentic AI stack. We refer to it as the Rebel Alliance, and we believe it's not just competing, but is structurally positioned to lead. What began as a simple "chat app" experience has matured into the agentic era. More powerful models, combined with better tooling to orchestrate and connect them, have made it possible to build truly capable a... (1,425 words)
- [Supp](/content/blog/supp/index.html): The healthcare system can sometimes feel like it’s not working on our behalf, leading to a loss of trust. When trust erodes, we lose our sense of empowerment. Our sense of agency disappears. Outcomes deteriorate. This isn't inevitable. Instead, people-driven exploration, sharing, and collaboration around health are ways to bring back trust. And when trust re-emerges, changes in the system occur. Moreover, a new system can be built. Our investment in SuppCo, a company founded by Steve Martocci... (323 words)
- [USV Updates Archives | Page 2 of 8 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/usv-updates/page/2/index.html) (341 words)
- [Hanel Baveja | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/hanel-baveja/index.html): Hanel Baveja joined Union Square Ventures in February 2020. Prior to USV, Hanel was on the investment team at Insight Partners, a NYC-based growth stage software-focused fund. She has also worked on the business development team at Vettery, as an economics research assistant, a short story editor and writer, and a camp counselor. Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, she studied Economics and Creative Writing at Harvard (with an intermission studying Art History and French in Aix-en-Provence, France) before moving to New York City. (149 words)
- [Brad Burnham | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/brad-burnham/index.html): Brad Burnham is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City. (73 words)
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- [Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/fred-wilson/index.html): Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three children and lives in New York City. Fred is Chairman of the NYC Department of Education's CS4All Capital Campaign and is co-Chairman of Tech:NYC. (136 words)
- [Mona Alsubaei | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/mona-alsubaei/index.html): Mona Alsubaei is part of the investment team at USV. Before USV, Mona worked at CrossBoundary, an emerging markets investment advisory firm. She grew the firm's Middle East and Central Asia presence. Mona started her career in policy and international economics at the United Nations. 

Mona is a global nomad. She has lived and worked in over eight countries but always has a special place in her heart for her hometown – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (78 words)
- [Matt Cynamon | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/matt-cynamon/index.html): Matt, who proudly goes by the title of “Regular at USV,” spends his time making tools and conversing with friendly robots. He works on projects that bring USV’s teams closer to big ideas, helping them collaborate more smoothly, communicate publicly, and stay inspired.. With one foot in the present and a curious eye on the future, he explores what’s possible at the edge of technology, building tools that bring a touch of science fiction into everyday work. (80 words)
- [Jared Hecht | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/jared-hechtusv-com/index.html): Jared Hecht is a Venture Partner at Union Square Ventures. Prior to joining USV, he was the founder of Fundera (acquired by Nerdwallet) and GroupMe (acquired by Skype/MSFT) and an angel investor. Jared majored in political science at Columbia University. He is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn. (54 words)
- [Naomi Shah | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/naomi-shah/index.html): Naomi Shah joined Union Square Ventures in April 2018. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she moved to New York after graduating from Stanford in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Human Biology. The combination of these two fields is what excites her about new companies: understanding what drives human behavior and how we can harness technology to create paradigm shifts across industries. Prior to USV, Naomi worked on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs and in the Internet of Things group at Intel. She sits on the Young Leadership Committee of StreetSquash Harlem and is passionate about teaching personal finance and investing basics to young women. (135 words)
- [Gritt](/content/blog/gritt/index.html): Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the even earlier sanitation systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern life would be completely impossible without the extensive infrastructure which we now often take for granted, such as the electricity grid. To advance from here, we face a dual challenge: we need to construct new infrastructure, such as massive solar arrays, and we need to... (232 words)
- [People | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/page/2/index.html): Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. (52 words)
- [Anti-Harassment Policy | Union Square Ventures](/content/policy-against-harassment/index.html): USV has a strict policy against all types of workplace harassment, including harassment on the basis of race, color, religion (including religious dress (821 words)
- [Obliterate, Don't Automate](/content/blog/obliterate/index.html): In 2015, my partner Fred Wilson published a short blog post, Don't Automate, Obliterate, on how USV thinks about startup investments. The post was based on a 1990 HBR article by Michael Hammer by the same name. Specifically, Fred and the rest of USV partners found that the best investments were in the companies that were not just building software to automate existing markets… but to fully obliterate them instead. Since then, it's become a defining characteristic for how USV assesses startup ... (468 words)
- [Fomo](/content/blog/fomo/index.html): For years, it has become increasingly clear that all assets are going to come onchain, and eventually all of finance too. It is why we have continually invested in open financial infrastructure focused on ushering in that future such as Uniswap, Morpho, Hyperliquid, Relay, and more. In many ways, that future has arrived. Cheap public blockchains have unlocked an explosion of asset creation. Equities, commodities, and even pre-IPO assets – in derivative form – are now traded 24/7 onchain, in s... (460 words)
- [Consumer Rebellion](/content/blog/consumer-rebellion/index.html): We’ve been talking a lot at USV about the rebel alliance—the alternative to big model reliance—and the opportunities it creates for builders of the agentic stack. But the result of a strong rebel alliance also means we’re at the entrance to a bubbling and awesome agentic consumer explosion built on top of this new set of open tools and foundations. Michael Mignano @mignano For the first time in ~3 years, it feels like the AI table has been flipped over. Yes, the labs and hyperscalers will hav... (317 words)
- [Alqem](/content/blog/alqem/index.html): The universe of potential materials is vast. To get a sense for just how big it is consider the following: we want to combine three different elements (drawn from a subset of the periodic table of say only 10 elements) into a new material. A naive first estimation would be that we have 10x10x10 = 1000 candidates to consider. But wait, we can choose to have varying amounts of each element in the material. Again just to get a sense, simply assume that we can have between 1 and 100 units of the ... (408 words)
- [Pascal](/content/blog/pascal/index.html): Over the last 24 months, prediction markets have grown rapidly, consistently defied expectations, and quickly become an indelible part of our social and economic fabric. Prediction markets receive a lot of criticism, some warranted, but ultimately we believe these types of markets are important, will meaningfully extend beyond just sports betting, and will be a positive force in the world. The idea that markets can surface information and help us develop a much clearer understanding of the fu... (645 words)
- [Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html): Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV). Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). Albert is the author of the book The World After Capital. On his blog Continuations he writes about technology, science, philosophy and more. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Albert is married to Gigi Danziger. They have three grown children and live in New York City. (94 words)
- [Nikhil Raman | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/nikhil-raman/index.html): Nikhil joined Union Square Ventures in January 2023. Before USV, Nikhil was part of the founding team at Daffy and also spent time at Google as a product engineer. Nikhil is originally from Los Altos, California, and studied Computer Science, Math, and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. (51 words)
- [Michael Mignano | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/michael-mignano/index.html): Michael Mignano is a General Partner at Union Square Ventures. Prior to joining USV, he co-founded and served as CEO of Anchor, a podcasting platform acquired by Spotify in 2019, and was a Partner at Lightspeed, where he led early investments in companies such as Granola and Suno. Michael is originally from New York and currently lives in Hoboken with his wife and two kids. (68 words)
- [Meet the Agents at USV: Arthur, Ellie, Sally, and Friends](/content/blog/meet-the-agents/index.html): There’s a great story in Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn about how a temporary wooden structure left over from World War II became one of the most loved buildings at MIT. During the war, MIT needed a new building to house the urgent classified development of radar technology. They hastily built a three story wood structure to fit the thousands of additional researchers: You know those time lapse photographs they make of construction of skyscrapers? Well Building 20 went up like that – alm... (2,907 words)
- [Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures](/content/jobs/jobs/index.html): Jobs at Union Square Ventures Companies | Union Square Ventures (543 words)
- [The Race to Run Businesses Autonomously: Cofounder by The General Intelligence Company of New York](/content/writing/2025/12/the-race-to-run-businesses-autonomously-cofounder-by-the-general-intelligence-company-of-new-york.html): Cofounder lets you break your business down into Flows—the repeatable workflows that make up everything from one-time setups to ongoing operations—and automate each one through a network of coordinating agents. The product suggests flows to fork and try and enables the creation of new ones, reformatting into a constantly self-updating to-do list where the tasks involved can be accomplished autonomously. The idea is to both take the repetitive work out of running businesses and also add opportuni (537 words)
- [Reservoir](/content/writing/2025/02/reservoir/index.html): Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of new blockchains and onchain assets. This trend is just accelerating as our online world is increasingly built on blockchain rails. Today, creating new chains and tokens is cheaper, faster, and safer than ever. While this fragmentation of chains and assets has enabled diversity and scale in the blockchain ecosystem, it has also made development across it complex. A future of hundreds of chains – each with their own unique assets – require... (444 words)
- [Fund Structure Archives | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/topic/fund-structure/index.html):     (437 words)
- [Sling](/content/writing/2024/08/sling/index.html): The most exciting web3 opportunities center around applications that will onboard many millions, and eventually billions, of users to cry... (505 words)
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- [Companies | Union Square Ventures](/content/companies/index.html): Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. (5,513 words)
- [The USV Team | Union Square Ventures](/content/people/usv-team/index.html): The USV Team (23 words)
- [Gritt | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/07/gritt/index.html): Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the (232 words, Jul 21, 2026)
- [Pascal | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/07/pascal/index.html): Over the last 24 months, prediction markets have grown rapidly, consistently defied expectations, and quickly become an indelible part of our social and (645 words, Jul 16, 2026)
- [Data At The Edge | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/07/data-at-the-edge/index.html): Many of the most critical data sets are the ones that we have long been unable to access or interpret. Value on the internet has largely compounded (1,214 words, Jul 8, 2026)
- [Fomo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/06/fomo/index.html) (11 words, Jun 22, 2026)
- [Suno | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/06/suno/index.html): USV is delighted to be participating in Suno's Series D round of financing. The last two decades of the internet have proven, more than any other period (363 words, Jun 3, 2026)
- [Board | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/06/board/index.html) (11 words, Jun 2, 2026)
- [Glif | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2026/04/glif/index.html): What does it mean to have a genuine point of view in the age of AI? The models, yes, can be extraordinary. Yet it often seems like something else is (397 words, Apr 23, 2026)
- [Collaborative Intelligence | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/11/collaborative-intelligence/index.html): Humans are not simple creatures. Although we like to present ourselves as coherent wholes to the outside world, on the inside, we’re divided. Marvin (640 words, Nov 20, 2024)
- [Our Investment in Anon | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/04/our-investment-in-anon/index.html): In the original designs for the World Wide Web, there was a clear line drawn between the services people interacted with (websites), and the software they (468 words, Apr 29, 2024)
- [The Primitives Protocol | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/04/the-primitives-protocol/index.html): For over a decade now, USV has been eagerly anticipating the emergence of “Web3” alongside “crypto”.  What we mean by this is that while blockchains (454 words, Apr 4, 2024)
- [Blixt | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/03/blixt/index.html): Existing electrical infrastructure is ill-suited to our current needs. It was developed for a world where we simply sent firm AC power from centralized (475 words, Mar 20, 2024)
- [The Fragmentation of Search | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/02/the-fragmentation-of-search/index.html): The market structure for Search is currently being reshaped. Horizontal and LLM-based “search agents” like ChatGPT and Perplexity are placing (802 words, Feb 29, 2024)
- [Vertically Integrated and AI-First | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/02/the-edge-of-physical-industry/index.html): Co-authored with Jared Hecht A new pattern is emerging that we are excited about at USV: entrepreneurs are upgrading physical industries with an AI-first (474 words, Feb 22, 2024)
- [Code | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/02/code/index.html): USV participated in a seed financing of Code, which is building a global payments app on the Solana blockchain. Code announced the financing today on (110 words, Feb 7, 2024)
- [AI Aesthetics | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/02/ai-aesthetics/index.html): The word “technology” comes from the Greek word techne, which refers to an art or skill or practice. Plato writes a lot about the concept, often making (669 words, Feb 1, 2024)
- [Training the Weird | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/01/training-the-weird/index.html): We are entering a new age of consumer fun and function. AI is going to supercharge both the utility and entertainment of consumer products, introducing (682 words, Jan 31, 2024)
- [Healthcare at the Edge | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/01/healthcare-at-the-edge/index.html): Co-authored with Jared Hecht USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, and we believe that (826 words, Jan 25, 2024)
- [Weird | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/01/weird/index.html): The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to (485 words, Jan 10, 2024)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/01/joining-union-square-ventures-4/index.html): I am delighted to share that I have joined USV as a Venture Partner in NYC where I will lead new investments, help to support founders in our portfolio, (845 words, Jan 4, 2024)
- [NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2024/01/nfts-have-evolved-nfts-endure/index.html): USV started playing with NFTs in 2017. First when Rare Pepes were starting to gain some niche popularity and then again when cryptokitties launched. (1,570 words, Jan 4, 2024)
- [Web3 Compensation and Hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/12/web3-compensation-and-hiring/index.html): Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive web3 compensation survey of our portfolio companies. (699 words, Dec 21, 2023)
- [Making Energy Programmable | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/12/making-energy-programmable/index.html): We’ve previously written about the storage gap. The proliferation of solar has led to an abundance of energy when the sun is out and a dearth when it’s (602 words, Dec 13, 2023)
- [Open Source, the AI stack, and need for permissionless experimentation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/10/open-source-the-ai-stack-and-need-for-permissionless-experimentation.html): An obvious observation: open-source software has been an integral part of software development for decades. This collaborative approach enables developers (894 words, Oct 15, 2023)
- [Statement on Israel | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/10/statement-on-israel/index.html): We have been devastated all week by what is going on in Israel. Our colleagues in the venture capital industry drafted the statement below and asked us to (347 words, Oct 13, 2023)
- [Paying attention to the climate crisis | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/10/paying-attention-to-the-climate-crisis/index.html): In March of this year, the IPCC reported that global surface temperature for the years 2011-2020 had reached an average of 1.1°C higher than (682 words, Oct 3, 2023)
- [Chamber | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/09/chamber/index.html): Today we’re excited to announce our investment in Chamber, a new service for securely holding digital assets. One of the challenges for crypto adoption is (275 words, Sep 18, 2023)
- [Daybreak's Series B | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/08/daybreaks-series-b/index.html): Over the last several years, USV has built out both our thesis and portfolio around tackling the mental health crisis. Our investments have broadly broken (770 words, Aug 8, 2023)
- [Mind the Storage Gap | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/07/mind-the-storage-gap/index.html): Co-authored with Mark Khalil Deployment of renewables has been accelerating globally. In 2022, around 12% of electricity came from wind and solar, (805 words, Jul 31, 2023)
- [Hallucinations as a feature, not a bug | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/06/hallucinations-as-a-feature-not-a-bug/index.html): Co-authored with Grace Carney A few months ago Fred kicked off a conversation about what the “native” applications of AI technology will be. What are the (671 words, Jun 16, 2023)
- [Tutors for Everyone | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/06/tutors-for-everyone/index.html): In 2009 we hosted a one day event we called "Hacking Education." We brought together a diverse group that included game designers, principals from (573 words, Jun 12, 2023)
- [The Historic Fund | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/06/the-historic-fund/index.html): We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs (216 words, Jun 5, 2023)
- [Odyssey | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/05/odyssey/index.html): 3.5 billion people in the world do not have access to reliable electricity, and over $1T in renewable energy investments are needed in emerging markets in (314 words, May 26, 2023)
- [AI Reliability and Building Trusted Brands | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/05/ai-reliability-and-building-trusted-brands/index.html): tl;dr: For increasingly capable AIs to gain widespread adoption, they will have to earn our trust by reliably doing what we want in the ways we want. Four (1,126 words, May 10, 2023)
- [Trust and Artificial Intelligence | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/04/trust-and-artificial-intelligence/index.html): Trust is the core component of the USV investment thesis: “trusted brands that broaden access” is the opening description of our articulation. In a world (885 words, Apr 28, 2023)
- [CarbonChain | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/04/carbonchain/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. To fulfill these commitments, (429 words, Apr 25, 2023)
- [Joining the Venture Climate Alliance | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/04/joining-the-venture-climate-alliance/index.html): At USV we intend to make a meaningful contribution to solving the climate crisis. In addition to making investments from our climate funds, we are (202 words, Apr 25, 2023)
- [AI Learning Summit | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/04/ai-learning-summit/index.html): Co-authored with Rebecca Kaden Last week USV and Reach Capital co-hosted the AI Learning Summit. We welcomed over 75 builders, founders, educators, (855 words, Apr 19, 2023)
- [Noya | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/04/noya/index.html): USV's climate thesis is to "invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis." When it comes to (271 words, Apr 11, 2023)
- [Joining USV - Nikhil | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/03/joining-usv-nikhil/index.html): I am incredibly excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst on our investment team. Prior to USV, I was part of the founding team at Daffy, (331 words, Mar 2, 2023)
- [Joining USV - Grace | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/03/joining-usv-grace/index.html): I’m excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst. I started out my career at Bain, where I spent a significant amount of time running (333 words, Mar 2, 2023)
- [Joining USV – Matt | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/03/joining-usv-matt/index.html): I’m thrilled to be starting at USV as an analyst on our investment team. I’m joining USV from AeroFarms, a startup building vertical farms around the (373 words, Mar 2, 2023)
- [Building Out the Climate Capital Stack | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/02/building-out-the-climate-capital-stack-the-opportunity-for-pilot-foak-and-series-b-funds.html): Co-authored by Mona We recently announced that we have started to invest from our second climate fund. Much like our first climate fund this is an early (1,161 words, Feb 16, 2023)
- [Hume AI | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/01/hume-ai/index.html): Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: "How does it feel?"  This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science (496 words, Jan 26, 2023)
- [Journey Clinical's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2023/01/journey-clinicals-series-a/index.html): The state of mental health in the US is abysmal. 1 in 5 American adults report suffering from mental illness–and nearly 1 in 3 between 18 and 25. A core (567 words, Jan 24, 2023)
- [Mombak | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/12/mombak/index.html): Co-authored by Mona Emissions reduction alone is not enough to address the climate crisis. Carbon removal is an essential part of any solution. In fact, (357 words, Dec 15, 2022)
- [USV 2022 Climate Fund | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/12/usv-2022-climate-fund/index.html): We are pleased to announce that we have raised a new $200M Climate Fund. This is our second climate fund dedicated to investing in mitigation for and (201 words, Dec 9, 2022)
- [Ostrom | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/12/ostrom/index.html): One of the pillars of the USV investment thesis is “trusted brands”, and a core component of brand trust is structural alignment. Structural alignment (321 words, Dec 7, 2022)
- [Lithos Carbon | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/10/lithos-carbon/index.html): Agriculture is both contributing to the climate crisis and being negatively impacted by it. According to the USDA, agriculture is responsible for more (399 words, Oct 20, 2022)
- [Anthro Energy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/10/anthro-energy/index.html): From the electrification of end-uses such as vehicles and heating to storage supporting intermittent renewables, many emission-reduction efforts rely (331 words, Oct 19, 2022)
- [Blackbird Labs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/10/blackbird-labs/index.html): At USV, we are looking for applications that can bring hundreds of millions of users onto web3. As great as the decentralized finance and digital art (258 words, Oct 6, 2022)
- [Molten Industries | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/10/molten-industries/index.html): The first time I met Kevin Bush and Caleb Boyd was at their garage, conveniently located in Kevin’s backyard. In that small garage, their curiosity was (345 words, Oct 4, 2022)
- [USV Analyst Program 2022 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/09/usv-analyst-program-2022/index.html): As we pre-announced a week ago, the time has come again for a new USV analyst cohort. This blog post lays out what the USV analyst program is and how you (624 words, Sep 6, 2022)
- [Zanskar | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/08/zanskar/index.html): Co-authored by Albert Wenger. Geothermal energy is a vastly underdeveloped resource relative to its potential; just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could (356 words, Aug 26, 2022)
- [USV Analyst Program 2022: Heads Up | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/08/usv-analyst-program-2022-heads-up/index.html): It is hard to believe but well over two years have passed since Hannah, Hanel and David joined us as analysts at USV (David left midstream to start (230 words, Aug 25, 2022)
- [Ghost's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/07/ghosts-series-a/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Excess inventory is one of the worst-kept secrets in ecommerce.  Brands overproduce more than $500B of goods (485 words, Jul 19, 2022)
- [XFuel | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/07/xfuel/index.html): Co-authored with Nick Grossman Transportation, including road, rail, air, and marine, has a greater reliance on fossil fuels than any other sector. It (404 words, Jul 13, 2022)
- [Investing in Climate Adaptation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/07/investing-in-climate-adaptation/index.html): Co-authored by Hanel Baveja, Mona Alsubaei The USV Climate Fund is focused on companies that provide mitigation for, or adaptation to, the climate (668 words, Jul 6, 2022)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2021 - Q2 2022 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/07/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q4-2021-q2-2022.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we have published regular transparency statements on our Algorand (143 words, Jul 2, 2022)
- [USV 2022 Funds | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/04/usv-2022-funds/index.html): Co-authored with Andy Weissman We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds: a $275M Core Fund and a $350M Opportunity Fund. The new funds (218 words, Apr 28, 2022)
- [Shift EV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/04/shift-ev/index.html): Transportation is the sector with the largest CO2 emissions, accounting for 37% of total CO2 emissions from end-use sectors globally. A crucial strategy (372 words, Apr 20, 2022)
- [Slope | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/04/slope/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Even with the explosion of new digital payment options over the last decade, there is still a wide gap between the B2C and (373 words, Apr 15, 2022)
- [2022 DEI Priorities | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/04/2022-dei-priorities/index.html): Diverse teams build better businesses1.  To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps (437 words, Apr 12, 2022)
- [Brilliant Planet | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/04/brilliant-planet/index.html): Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even (407 words, Apr 6, 2022)
- [David Energy's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/03/david-energys-series-a/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Energy is a real-time commodities market.  The grid must balance supply and demand minute-by-minute to avoid blackouts (762 words, Mar 28, 2022)
- [Alife's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/03/alifes-series-a/index.html): Fertility treatment today is largely a blunt object approach to a highly personal moment. It begins with a one size fits most process designed to be (588 words, Mar 22, 2022)
- [Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part Two) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/03/climate-tech-investing-in-emerging-markets-part-two.html): In January, I wrote about the case for climate tech investing in emerging markets. In addition to preventing catastrophic losses and events, it also (2,004 words, Mar 16, 2022)
- [Radiant | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/03/radiant/index.html): USV’s Climate Thesis is to invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. One important way that we can (449 words, Mar 9, 2022)
- [WalletConnect | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/03/walletconnect/index.html): For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or (300 words, Mar 9, 2022)
- [Ceramic | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/ceramic/index.html): As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system.  In other words, data packets (690 words, Feb 16, 2022)
- [Mundi's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/mundis-series-a/index.html): Co-authored by John Buttrick. Each year, Mexico exports over $325 billion of goods to the US alone. However, SMEs represent only a tiny fraction – just (280 words, Feb 16, 2022)
- [Shortwave | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/shortwave/index.html): Email is one of the greatest communication tools ever invented – a universal, public system that enables written communication among all people, anywhere (501 words, Feb 15, 2022)
- [m3ter | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/m3ter/index.html): A core piece of USV’s thesis has long been around an enablement layer – the idea that horizontal tooling is essential to support growing ecosystems that (483 words, Feb 7, 2022)
- [Floodmapp | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/floodmapp/index.html): Co-authored by Nick Grossman. Thanks to major advances in GPS technology and the proliferation of mobile phones, we are used to predicting the arrival of (470 words, Feb 7, 2022)
- [Parallel Markets | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/02/parallel-markets/index.html): In 2015, we invested in Carta (FKA eShares) and wrote, “Anyone who owns shares or options in a private company instinctively knows that cap table (288 words, Feb 4, 2022)
- [Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part One) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2022/01/climate-tech-investing-in-emerging-markets/index.html): I recently joined the USV team and as many investors and founders, I have been a long-time reader of this platform. So, I'm honored to be writing here! (1,204 words, Jan 20, 2022)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/12/joining-union-square-ventures-3/index.html): Some of you in the USV network might know me. My USV journey started last year. I worked on the USV climate fund while doing my MBA. Now, I'm officially (408 words, Dec 6, 2021)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2021 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/11/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q3-2021/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on (237 words, Nov 21, 2021)
- [Sofar Ocean's Series B | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/11/sofar-oceans-series-b/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden There are over 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth today. Enabled by advances in IoT and distributed sensing in the (429 words, Nov 2, 2021)
- [Fiveable's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/09/fiveables-series-a/index.html): Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Inequities in our education system are well-documented.  High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable (594 words, Sep 28, 2021)
- [REVOS | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/09/revos/index.html): Increased mobility is one of the great accomplishments of the industrial age. We can get to places much faster whether it is for work, to visit friends (451 words, Sep 2, 2021)
- [Mindset | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/08/mindset/index.html): The original paparazzi is thought to be Tazio Secchiaroli, famous for his 1958 photograph of King Farouk of Egypt sitting in a cafe in Rome with two (452 words, Aug 25, 2021)
- [Bright Moments DAO | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/08/bright-moments-dao/index.html): Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time (347 words, Aug 25, 2021)
- [Measurement in Market Making | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/08/measurement-in-market-making/index.html): In order to provide high-powered incentives in any economic market, you need an accurate and ongoing measurement of quality. For example, it’s difficult (251 words, Aug 16, 2021)
- [Dune Analytics | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/08/dune-analytics/index.html): The amount of invention and creativity happening in crypto is head-spinning.  Countless projects, protocols, apps, tokens, and communities are, Dune is the all-in-one crypto data platform — query with SQL, stream data via APIs & DataShare, and publish interactive dashboards across 100+ blockchains., Dune is the all-in-one crypto data platform — query with SQL, stream data via APIs & DataShare, and publish interactive dashboards across 100+ blockchains. (490 words, Aug 12, 2021)
- [Remora | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/08/remora/index.html): In the US, medium and heavy duty trucks account for 70% of all freight transport and 6.5% of all GHG emissions. While emerging technologies like battery (327 words, Aug 9, 2021)
- [Transmutex | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/07/transmutex/index.html): Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we (559 words, Jul 29, 2021)
- [The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/07/the-growing-demand-for-clean-electricity/index.html): The availability of abundant and affordable energy is directly linked to the quality of life. Energy consumption of 100 GJ or more per capita appears to (677 words, Jul 28, 2021)
- [Supporting Teams in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/07/supporting-teams-in-dei-efforts/index.html): Co-authored by Alex Gachanja As captured in USV Thesis 3.0, the potential to leverage networks is a core component of our investment criteria. Over the (1,189 words, Jul 28, 2021)
- [Karat | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/07/karat/index.html): Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch Ten years ago, USV wrote about how technology was changing the way people funded their ideas and earned a living. Investing (704 words, Jul 1, 2021)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q2 2021 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/07/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q2-2021/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on (248 words, Jul 1, 2021)
- [VIAM | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/06/viam/index.html): “Danger, Will Robinson!” was one of the catchphrases of Robot Model B-9, mostly known simply as the Robot, in the 1960s TV Series Lost in Space. More than (297 words, Jun 29, 2021)
- [Electrifying Buildings | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/06/electrifying-buildings/index.html): This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Electrifying buildings will play a critical role in managing our carbon (1,400 words, Jun 7, 2021)
- [Scaling Ethereum with zkSync | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/06/scaling-ethereum-with-zksync/index.html): Ethereum has grown into an incredibly rich ecosystem, demonstrating the network effects that are possible when you combine wallets, developers, assets, (410 words, Jun 3, 2021)
- [ADDI | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/05/addi/index.html): Co-authored by Hanel Baveja While we are not the first to point this out, access to capital in Latin America remains a massive challenge. Financial (413 words, May 26, 2021)
- [alt.bank | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/05/alt-bank/index.html): For most of USV’s history, we focused on investments in North America and Europe. We are a small firm and there was more than enough opportunity in these (309 words, May 4, 2021)
- [Tokenized Natural Assets | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/tokenized-natural-assets/index.html): This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Natural resources such as fertile land and healthy oceans are the (873 words, Apr 29, 2021)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/joining-union-square-ventures-2/index.html): I am delighted to join Union Square Ventures as General Counsel. I am joining the team at an exciting moment. We are pursuing many complex investments (178 words, Apr 28, 2021)
- [Hacking Healthcare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/hacking-healthcare/index.html): In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick...sooner (662 words, Apr 20, 2021)
- [soona | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/soona/index.html): Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch The language of commerce has always been visual.  Tiffany’s published their Blue Book in 1845, the first direct-mail (900 words, Apr 16, 2021)
- [Exploring Geothermal | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/exploring-geothermal/index.html): This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV's Climate Fund. Geothermal energy has massive potential: just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat (876 words, Apr 1, 2021)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2020 & Q1 2021 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/04/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q4-2020-q1-2021.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on (252 words, Apr 1, 2021)
- [Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/03/mitigating-the-climate-crisis-an-overview/index.html): Late last year, we announced the USV Climate Fund. At the time, we wrote that “itigation is working on the causes of the climate crisis through either (818 words, Mar 15, 2021)
- [SmartHop's Series A | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/02/smarthops-series-a/index.html): The trucking industry is one of the oldest and most interesting in the US. It is also one I’ve always been fascinated by--partly because, for a couple of (602 words, Feb 10, 2021)
- [USV 2021 Fund | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/01/usv-2021-fund/index.html): We are pleased to announce that USV has raised a 2021 Core Fund with commitments of $250 million. This Core Fund will complement our new Climate Fund and (662 words, Jan 26, 2021)
- [SilviaTerra | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/01/silviaterra/index.html): Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of (577 words, Jan 8, 2021)
- [USV Climate Fund | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2021/01/usv-climate-fund/index.html): At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over (409 words, Jan 8, 2021)
- [Hacking Education 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/12/hacking-education-2-0/index.html): More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking (1,704 words, Dec 18, 2020)
- [Stacks 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/12/stacks-2-0/index.html): The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in (531 words, Dec 16, 2020)
- [Our Investment in Possible | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/10/our-investment-in-possible/index.html): Co-authored by Hanel Baveja 91 million Americans struggle to access money when they need it, often resulting in excess cost and low credit scores. Sadly, (450 words, Oct 20, 2020)
- [Making Butter with Jam | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/10/making-butter-with-jam/index.html): At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process.  It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone.  Or (661 words, Oct 20, 2020)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2020 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/10/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q3-2020/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on (317 words, Oct 2, 2020)
- [Sora | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/10/sora/index.html): Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners (824 words, Oct 1, 2020)
- [Outschool's Series B | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/09/outschools-series-b/index.html): In the post about USV’s initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago, I wrote about the dramatic need for innovation in an education system that looked (625 words, Sep 18, 2020)
- [Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/09/mental-healthcare-3-0-part-2/index.html): Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0 In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying (541 words, Sep 10, 2020)
- [Bolster Your Management Team And Board | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/09/bolster-your-management-team-and-board/index.html): I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV's former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold (475 words, Sep 9, 2020)
- [Mental Healthcare 3.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/09/mental-healthcare-3-0/index.html): Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for (780 words, Sep 1, 2020)
- [A Quick Update On Hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/08/a-quick-jobs-update/index.html): Back in May we published a post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing above 1,000 for the first time since April, we thought we’d give a quick update on where things stand. (355 words, Aug 14, 2020)
- [Meet Cute (or, one way to create a new media business) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/07/meet-cute-or-one-way-to-create-a-new-media-business.html): Andy Warhol once said, “It’s really much more interesting what you see walking from one gallery to another than what you see in the galleries.”  What he (851 words, Jul 28, 2020)
- [Headgum | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/07/headgum/index.html): When things are serious, we need humor more than ever.  At this unique point in history, bringing more laughter and authenticity to a wider audience (686 words, Jul 23, 2020)
- [Collecting Diversity and Inclusion data for your company | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/07/collecting-diversity-and-inclusion-data-for-your-company.html): A company’s demographic makeup has never been more relevant. Employees want to know things: how leadership plans to measure and prioritize diversity, (992 words, Jul 9, 2020)
- [NYC Tech Companies: Please Consider Participating in Summer Bridge | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/07/nyc-tech-companies-please-consider-participating-in-summer-bridge-2.html): NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program is the nation’s largest youth employment program, historically connecting NYC’s neediest young adults (between the (296 words, Jul 6, 2020)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q1 & Q2 2020 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/07/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q1-q2-2020/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on (274 words, Jul 2, 2020)
- [Augmented Reality NFTs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/06/augmented-reality-nfts/index.html): Nonfungible Tokens, or NFTs, provide a way to verify that a digital asset is uniquely owned and has specific properties, thus potentially giving the asset (644 words, Jun 26, 2020)
- [An Appraisal | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/06/an-appraisal/index.html): We believe that Black lives matter and we oppose all forms of racism. We also recognize that the forces behind the incidents of the last few weeks are not (112 words, Jun 3, 2020)
- [How COVID Is Impacting Hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/05/how-covid-is-impacting-hiring/index.html): As the longer term impacts of COVID-19 continue to reveal themselves, one area we’ve been paying close attention to is the jobs market. In our portfolio, (473 words, May 21, 2020)
- [No End of Computer History (Yet) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/05/no-end-of-computer-history-yet/index.html): At USV we have been discussing a cooling internet universe for several years now. We have largely stayed away from backing strictly sales driven companies (686 words, May 1, 2020)
- [What We’re Learning About How We Learn | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/04/what-were-learning-about-how-we-learn/index.html): The rapid transition to remote schooling has supercharged trends in online learning -- it’s possible that 3-5 years of behavior change has been condensed (558 words, Apr 8, 2020)
- [Synchronous Entertainment | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/03/sychronous-entertainment/index.html): It's kind of sad that HQ Trivia, a mobile live game show, is no longer running. This should be its moment. Much of the world has spent the last week (359 words, Mar 23, 2020)
- [Joining USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/03/joining-usv-2/index.html): Hi everyone!  I’m a new analyst at USV and am incredibly excited to be a part of the team.  Joining from Google, I most recently supported (291 words, Mar 18, 2020)
- [David @ USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/03/david-usv/index.html): I’m joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst on the investment team. It's already been an adventure as I'm transitioning into the role while the world (270 words, Mar 18, 2020)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/03/joining-union-square-ventures/index.html): I’m very excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst.  I’m coming from Insight Partners, a growth-stage fund located about 20 blocks (316 words, Mar 18, 2020)
- [Crypto, Social? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/02/social-crypto/index.html): When you really think about it, isn’t crypto kind of an amazing platform to build social products on? Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, (221 words, Feb 10, 2020)
- [A Social Resurgence | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/02/a-social-resurgence/index.html): We have recently gotten excited about several new emerging social networks and platforms. While the competition for prolonged attention only gets fiercer (662 words, Feb 7, 2020)
- [2020 Analyst Recruiting is Complete! | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/02/2020-analyst-recruiting-is-complete/index.html): After reviewing 345 applications, interviewing 30 candidates, and inviting 11 to meet us in person, we are excited to announce that we have 3 incredible (238 words, Feb 7, 2020)
- [Justworks | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/justworks/index.html): We have known Justworks founder Isaac Oates since he led the creation of Etsy's payment system a decade ago. When Isaac left Etsy and started Justworks, (207 words, Jan 28, 2020)
- [Expanding Our Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/expanding-our-network/index.html): Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 (596 words, Jan 24, 2020)
- [Leap | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/leap/index.html): When USV started looking closely at the energy sector, we were excited to find networks on multiple levels: at the grid level, a network of electrons; at (573 words, Jan 16, 2020)
- [USV and the Climate Crisis | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/usv-and-the-climate-crisis/index.html): As we start a new decade it is worth examining our investment thesis. We continue to be convinced that our current focus on broadening access to (371 words, Jan 16, 2020)
- [Wren | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/wren/index.html): We are excited to be welcoming Wren to the USV portfolio. We first came across Wren while navigating the confusing process of purchasing carbon offsets (457 words, Jan 16, 2020)
- [CoverWallet, now an Aon company | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/coverwallet-an-aon-company/index.html): Last week CoverWallet, one of our portfolio companies, was acquired by Aon, one of the world’s leading companies focused on insurance. CoverWallet was (423 words, Jan 13, 2020)
- [Juro | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2020/01/juro/index.html): When I was at law school in a prior life, Contracts was one of my favorite classes. The cases were filled with colorful stories of people who thought they (440 words, Jan 7, 2020)
- [Update on 2020 Analyst Recruiting | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/12/update-on-2020-analyst-recruiting/index.html): We are in the final stages of our first cut for our 2020 Analyst Program. The next stage is phone/video interviews for a subset of the applicants.  We (418 words, Dec 20, 2019)
- [On Growth | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/12/on-growth/index.html): The word “growth” has become one of the focal points of the climate crisis debate. There are those who are worried that pricing carbon will slow down (433 words, Dec 6, 2019)
- [Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/12/bigger-isnt-necessarily-better/index.html): Crunchbase has a story up today explaining that Series A and Series B rounds make up between 25% and 35% of all $100mm+ “supergiant” rounds every year . (180 words, Dec 5, 2019)
- [Hiring New Analysts @ USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/11/hiring-new-analysts-usv/index.html): We are excited to announce that we are again recruiting new analysts at USV. As is tradition, analysts at USV join our firm for a two-year “tour of duty,” (586 words, Nov 25, 2019)
- [USV Supports Extended Algorand Vesting Schedule | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/11/usv-supports-extended-algorand-vesting-schedule/index.html): Earlier this year the Algorand blockchain launched and the Algo started trading. It relatively quickly became evident that there was a large supply-demand (231 words, Nov 25, 2019)
- [The Education Transformation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/11/the-education-transformation/index.html): 10 years ago, in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. The team pulled together a group of operators, founders, and investors to talk (548 words, Nov 18, 2019)
- [Welcoming Arweave To USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/11/arweave/index.html): We are thrilled to be welcoming the Arweave team to the USV portfolio. Part of USV’s most recent investment thesis is about investing in companies that (456 words, Nov 5, 2019)
- [Network Leaders Program | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/11/network-leaders-program/index.html): Activity led by a Network Leader: Write 3 areas of interest around your face and draw lines to those who share a common interest At USV we believe in the (680 words, Nov 1, 2019)
- [Recount Media | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/10/recount-media/index.html): Eighteen months ago, I had breakfast with John Heilemann and he told me that his world, political media, was challenged in the shift from linear (298 words, Oct 29, 2019)
- [How (and why) we gather feedback from our CEOs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/10/how-and-why-we-gather-feedback-from-our-ceos/index.html): For the past three years, we have conducted an annual survey where we ask our CEOs to share feedback about our performance in supporting them as partners (490 words, Oct 23, 2019)
- [USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2019 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/10/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q4-2019/index.html): As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are publishing the first of what will become regular (261 words, Oct 14, 2019)
- [Patch Homes, A Modern Finance Company | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/09/patch-homes-a-modern-finance-company/index.html): In 2006 my friends Mia and Andre (pseudonyms) bought their dream garden apartment in Harlem for $500K. They had rented in New York for a decade and bought (538 words, Sep 12, 2019)
- [Algorand Economic Improvement Proposal | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/09/algorand-economic-improvement-proposal/https/www-usv-com/writing/2019/09/algorand-economic-improvement-proposal/index.html): As investors in Algorand and node runners on the network, we welcome the first Algorand Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP). Since the launch of the (111 words, Sep 7, 2019)
- [Hello world | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/09/hello-world-3/index.html): Welcome to wiki This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! (15 words, Sep 5, 2019)
- [Announcing Abridge | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/07/announcing-abridge/index.html): White walls. You’re sitting on the hospital bed with that paper crinkling under you every time you shift around. It’s harder to focus on what the doctor (618 words, Jul 16, 2019)
- [Blockstack Reg A Token Sale | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/07/blockstack-reg-a-token-sale/index.html): Our portfolio company Blockstack is the first company to have received qualification from the SEC to sell a crypto token in an offering to the general (503 words, Jul 15, 2019)
- [Otis | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/07/otis-2/index.html): Museums are a wonderful way to see art and to make art accessible to the public. On the opposite spectrum of accessibility are private collections, locked (241 words, Jul 9, 2019)
- [Algorand Launch | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/06/algorand-launch/index.html): Today marks a big milestone for the Algorand Core Team and Algorand Foundation. They conducted the first on-chain Algorand (172 words, Jun 19, 2019)
- [goTenna Series C | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/06/gotenna-series-c/index.html): We are excited that Founders Fund has led a Series C financing for goTenna. It is a recognition of the tremendous progress the company has (268 words, Jun 18, 2019)
- [Why USV is Joining the Libra Association | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/06/why-usv-is-joining-the-libra-association/index.html): A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra, was announced today. Libra has been incubated by Facebook.  USV will be one of the (784 words, Jun 18, 2019)
- [Helium | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/06/helium/index.html): One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that.  While (821 words, Jun 12, 2019)
- [Simulmedia | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/06/simulmedia/index.html): Those of you who have followed our history may remember that it was a shared angel investment in Dave Morgan’s pioneering Internet advertising company, (198 words, Jun 12, 2019)
- [Trusted Brands | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/trusted-brands/index.html): We recently held our annual CEO summit where 65 of our portfolio company CEOs came together in NYC. Because we had updated our thesis since last (109 words, May 29, 2019)
- [Welcoming Outschool to USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/welcoming-outschool-to-usv/index.html): In the last 25 years, the growth and increased convenience of commercial internet has fundamentally changed how we live most aspects of our lives. It has (564 words, May 27, 2019)
- [Education By The Numbers | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/education-by-the-numbers/index.html): We have been spending a fair bit of time thinking about education in the US and wanted to share some of what we’ve learned so far. Below is a deck with (232 words, May 22, 2019)
- [Sofar | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/sofar/index.html): At a Sofar, you are sitting on the floor in a room full of mostly strangers, listening to artists you’ve never heard of, perhaps in a city you’ve (813 words, May 21, 2019)
- [Learning & Development at USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/learning-development-at-usv/index.html): A few years ago, in a survey of 500+ employees across USV portfolio companies, we were surprised to see questions about best practices in management and (873 words, May 15, 2019)
- [Carta Act III | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/carta-act-iii/index.html): In October 2014 we were fortunate to lead the Series A financing in a company then called eshares. At that point the company was offering cap (325 words, May 6, 2019)
- [Free Learning | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/05/free-learning/index.html): There is an aptitude test that measures creativity by asking people to name use cases for objects such as a paper clip. People who score in the (1,508 words, May 2, 2019)
- [Joining Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/04/joining-union-square-ventires/index.html): I am delighted to announce that I have joined Union Square Ventures partnership. What started a few months ago as a catch up breakfast with my friend Andy (398 words, Apr 30, 2019)
- [USV 2019 Funds | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/04/usv-2019-funds/index.html): We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds. The 2019 Core Fund has commitments of $200 million (up slightly from our last few core funds (408 words, Apr 30, 2019)
- [Code Climate Velocity 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/04/code-climate-velocity-2-0/index.html): About a year ago Code Climate announced its Velocity offering which provides engineering insights. Today they are taking the wraps off (243 words, Apr 24, 2019)
- [Marley Spoon | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/04/marley-spoon/index.html): One of the most basic human needs is the need for food. We all need to eat and drink to survive. And so it is not surprising that substantial parts of our (429 words, Apr 15, 2019)
- [Arweave Project Ideas | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/03/arweave-project-ideas/index.html): Earlier today, the Arweave team announced that they’ve raised additional capital in order to fund developers who want to build on Arweave through two new (561 words, Mar 5, 2019)
- [The Distributed Computing Update #3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/02/the-distributed-computing-update-3/index.html): Why is distributed compute important? It's not about price, it's about integrity with developers. Developers can trust that a distributed compute protocol won’t go away, fall down, lock them in, revoke their access, or become their direct competitor. Developers cannot trust Amazon, Google or Microsoft to promise them the same. (1,008 words, Feb 27, 2019)
- [Ten-thousand better decisions: Building a network around "network effects" | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/02/ten-thousand-better-decisions-building-a-network-around-network-effects.html): There are a million decisions that go into the process of building a company. By surfacing perspectives from 75 companies in our portfolio network, we hope to create tools that help people within each company answer even a fraction of these. (871 words, Feb 26, 2019)
- [Come for an Action, Stay for the Community | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/02/come-for-an-action-stay-for-the-community/index.html): The next wave of social systems will likely emphasize breadth and depth differently than the last--and may not look much like social networks at all. With the current networks, the horizontal nature of the platform is the product. Users come for the community. But it may be that with the next, the community is what keeps users long term engaged but is formed around another intent. Come for an action, stay for the community. (1,062 words, Feb 15, 2019)
- [Nice To Meet You | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/01/nice-to-meet-you/index.html): Back in October I read a blog post penned by my now colleague Bethany Crystal about the launch of the USV Talent Network. At the time, I was consulting (418 words, Jan 27, 2019)
- [The opportunity for learning & development at scale | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/01/the-opportunity-for-learning-development-at-scale/index.html): Millennial employees are less drawn to the perks of their parents’ generation, like company-funded pensions, and more motivated by flexibility, autonomy, (717 words, Jan 24, 2019)
- [Our First Network-Wide Diversity & Inclusion Survey | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/01/our-first-network-wide-diversity-inclusion-survey/index.html): We conducted our first network-wide Diversity and Inclusion survey with participation from 50% of USV portfolio companies. Here, we share insights and some metrics data that emerged from this research. (842 words, Jan 23, 2019)
- [Therapeutic Computing | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/01/therapeutic-computing/index.html): As part of the broadening access to wellbeing thesis, we have been searching for projects that bring down the cost of therapy and coaching. 8% of adults (735 words, Jan 22, 2019)
- [Looking For Syllabus 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/11/looking-for-syllabus-2-0/index.html): Becoming a fast expert in a new topic is still a big challenge. There are a lot of open resources available on the web, but finding, qualifying, and navigating them--let alone combining them into a self directed system--is a challenge. In the classroom, the syllabus plays that role. The syllabus is a learning map. There's a big opportunity to reinvent the syllabus for the internet. (981 words, Nov 19, 2018)
- [Welcoming Dia&Co to USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/11/welcoming-diaco-to-usv/index.html): There are two core reasons that make Dia&Co particularly exciting as an addition to the USV portfolio. First, the size and current state of the market they are focused on. Second, how well positioned this team is to tackle this problem and the ability they’ve shown to create not just a transactional business but a large, fast scaling, emotionally engaged community. (817 words, Nov 15, 2018)
- [Scroll | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/10/scroll/index.html): Differentiated user experiences are a cornerstone of the defensible businesses that USV has invested in for over 10 years. In the most recent articulation (484 words, Oct 25, 2018)
- [Introducing the USV Talent Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/10/introducing-the-usv-talent-network/index.html): Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our new USV Talent Network. (573 words, Oct 24, 2018)
- [Business Model Innovation in Healthcare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/10/business-model-innovation-in-healthcare/index.html): Recent conversations around healthcare have surfaced words like “crisis” and “collapse”. Besides being confused by the existing system, 20% of Americans (1,331 words, Oct 22, 2018)
- [The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/index.html): We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infrastructure and are rarely built in an outside vacuum. (1,772 words, Oct 1, 2018)
- [Unbundling Healthcare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/09/unbundling-healthcare/index.html): USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years. (959 words, Sep 11, 2018)
- [USV’s Back to School Reading List | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/08/usvs-back-to-school-reading-list/index.html): Ever want to know what the team at USV is reading? Check out our summer reading list here! (511 words, Aug 8, 2018)
- [Analyzing Tools Used by Our Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/08/analyzing-tools-used-by-our-network/index.html): We gathered over 450 software tools used across 64 companies, representing approximately 86% of our active portfolio. We began by tagging each tool based on department, the type of tool, and then explored how company size impacted usage. (942 words, Aug 8, 2018)
- [The Distributed Computing Update | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/02/the-distributed-computing-update-3/blog/the-distributed-computing-update/index.html): One of the applications of cryptocurrency we continue to be excited about is distributed computing. Before crypto, my laptop couldn’t pay a (2,122 words, Aug 7, 2018)
- [Jed @ USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/07/jed-usv/index.html): Over the next year I'll be porting USV's thinking around networks into code, and writing the APIs, apps, and bots that will help folks at our 70+ portfolio companies communicate and collaborate with each other. (339 words, Jul 31, 2018)
- [USV Intern Day | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/07/usv-intern-day/index.html): USV Intern Day brings together interns from dozens of portfolio companies and invite them to learn about all of the companies in our portfolio. (509 words, Jul 21, 2018)
- [An Overview of Blockchain-Based Universal Basic Income Projects | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/07/an-overview-of-blockchain-based-universal-basic-income-projects.html): One of the applications of blockchain that we are very excited about is Universal Basic Income. While UBI has traditionally been imagined as a government subsidy, cryptocurrency gives us a way to implement UBI without the need for a government to implement it. We are intrigued by this possibility and are wondering about some key issues, such as the complexities around issuing new currencies and preventing fraudulent accounts. (1,738 words, Jul 10, 2018)
- [Investing In Token Focused Funds | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/06/investing-in-token-focused-funds/index.html): At USV, we have been active in the blockchain/crypto sector since 2011. At this time, we have direct investments in nine companies/projects in the crypto (526 words, Jun 20, 2018)
- [An Overview Of The Distributed Computing Landscape | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/06/an-overview-of-the-distributed-computing-landscape/index.html): People have been trying to build distributed compute networks since the 1990’s; In 1996, GIMPS used distributed compute to search for prime numbers and in (1,008 words, Jun 11, 2018)
- [Dani @ USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/06/dani-usv/index.html): Hi everyone. I just joined USV as an analyst. I’m coming from Cloudflare, a USV portfolio company, where I worked for Dane on the Product Strategy team. If you’re working on anything interesting related to our new thesis, reach out. I’m dani@usv.com. Excited to start the Union Square adVentures. (265 words, Jun 4, 2018)
- [Our Investment in Modern Fertility | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/05/our-investment-in-modern-fertility/index.html): Modern Fertility is building a trusted consumer brand in fertility, starting with their launch today of at-home testing for women. In the comfort of their own homes, and for a fraction of what it would cost at a clinic, women can have their key fertility hormones tested through a few drops of blood. (719 words, May 30, 2018)
- [The Mosaic Series at Yieldmo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/05/the-mosaic-series-at-yieldmo/index.html): The terms “diversity” and “inclusion” have become increasingly paramount to CEOs, executives, managers and employees when focusing on the direction of their company. Included in the wave of frontrunners, a team at Yieldmo has founded “The Mosaic Series.” (491 words, May 16, 2018)
- [Lauren @ USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/05/lauren-usv/index.html): My name is Lauren and I oversee Network Engagement and Partnerships at Union Square Ventures. (384 words, May 2, 2018)
- [Hi Everyone | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/04/hi-everyone/index.html): I am a new analyst on the investment team at Union Square Ventures. (301 words, Apr 25, 2018)
- [Hello! | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/04/hello-2/index.html): I’m Zach, one of the new analysts at USV. I'm excited to be a part of this team and eager to find and support entrepreneurs on their quests to innovate. (299 words, Apr 20, 2018)
- [Shapeways Expands Services for Creators | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/04/shapeways-expands-services-for-creators/index.html): Shapeways has printed over 10 million different products. This has allowed Shapeways to hone its printing and logistical capabilities. Along the way, the team has also developed great insights into the needs of creators. We are excited that Shapeways is expanding its service offering accordingly. (218 words, Apr 19, 2018)
- [Welcoming ShopShops to USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/04/welcoming-shopshops-to-usv/index.html): ShopShops is an example of our thesis around broadening access. It allows consumers to find and buy product from makers and retailers across the globe as well as connect with other users who share tastes and interests. Similarly, retailers can quickly and easily expand their reach to customers quite literally a world away. (514 words, Apr 5, 2018)
- [USV Thesis 3.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/04/usv-thesis-3-0/index.html): We believe we are still at the beginning of the opportunity to broaden access with the most critical implications ahead of us. As a result, we decided to revise our thesis into a third version: USV backs trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. (720 words, Apr 2, 2018)
- [CryptoKitties | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/03/cryptokitties-2/index.html): The news broke today that USV, along with many of our friends in the tech/startup/VC sector, has invested in CryptoKitties. What is a CryptoKitty? Well (182 words, Mar 20, 2018)
- [CEO Summits at USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/03/ceo-summits-at-usv/index.html): Prior to each summit, our CEOs submit lessons learned and current challenges, which we use to help curate breakout groups where they lead each other in conversation. By leveraging an “unconference style” model, our CEOs and founders learn from each other, rather than from us, which makes a lot more sense. (127 words, Mar 13, 2018)
- [Hiring New Analysts (Update 2) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/hiring-new-analysts-update-2/index.html): A second quick update on our analyst hiring process (previous update, original announcement). We have now reviewed all applications. We will be reaching out this week to all candidates, starting with those who have made it to the next stage, which will be telephone interviews. (120 words, Feb 26, 2018)
- [Hiring New Analysts (Update 1) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/hiring-new-analysts-update-1/index.html): A quick update on our analyst hiring process. We received 326 applications. Andy and I have so far reviewed 190 of those and plan to complete that initial review by the end of next weekend. We will contact everyone with next steps the week of February 26th. (135 words, Feb 19, 2018)
- [Algorand | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/algorand/index.html): We have been writing about the importance of decentralized protocols going back to 2013. Since then a lot has happened, including a run up in the price of Bitcoin (and eventually other crypto currencies), the launch of Ethereum, the rise of ICOs and with them the funding of many new projects. And yet it feels to us that we are still in what Carlota Perez calls the “Installation Phase” of a new technology. That’s the period when a market attracts a lot of capital to help build out the necessary infrastructure. (301 words, Feb 15, 2018)
- [Welcoming Stash to the USV Portfolio | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/welcoming-stash-to-the-usv-portfolio/index.html): Technology makes it possible to serve the mass base of financial services customers with personalized, tailored, high quality products that can improve financial well being for them and their families and result in massive businesses along the way. Which is why we’re excited to announce our investment in Stash out of our Opportunity Fund. (540 words, Feb 11, 2018)
- [USV Level Up Series | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/usv-level-up-series/index.html): As our portfolio grows, we can help make more of an impact if we leverage the power of our vast network. One part of that effort in scaling impact is to (1,288 words, Feb 8, 2018)
- [Velocity by Code Climate | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/velocity-by-code-climate/index.html): Today our portfolio company Code Climate is launching its new “Velocity” product into public beta. The product provides teams with data driven insights into the speed of their development process. It answers important questions, such as where in the process do engineers have to wait (e.g. long continuous integration times or long wait for code to be reviewed)? Or, how much work in progress is accumulating (and how much risk does that contain)? For more examples of the types of insights provided by Velocity, you can see the product launch page. (361 words, Feb 7, 2018)
- [Hiring New Analysts | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/02/hiring-new-analysts/index.html): We are excited to announce that we are recruiting two new analysts at USV. Analysts at USV are part of the investment team and work closely with partners both on current portfolio and potential new investments. They gain exposure to our large network of startup and growth companies, as well as insight into our investment decision process. (422 words, Feb 1, 2018)
- [USV Manager Bootcamp: A cross-company learning opportunity | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2018/01/usv-manager-bootcamp-a-cross-company-learning-opportunity.html): Today marks the kickoff of the 6th USV Manager Bootcamp, a cross-company training for first-time managers at USV portfolio companies. Inspired by leaders across our network and facilitated by LifeLabs Learning, each 4-course session covers the core competencies that many new managers need on the job. (931 words, Jan 25, 2018)
- [How to Hire for HR: Lessons from 18 USV People Ops Leaders | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/12/how-to-hire-for-hr-lessons-from-18-usv-people-ops-leaders.html): Within our USV portfolio network, we are continuously looking for opportunities to “level up” the collective knowledge across the companies that we work with every day. As these businesses evolve and grow their customers and user communities, we also have the unique opportunity to observe how these companies build out their organizations from the inside -- which often falls to the role of the HR and People Ops team. (431 words, Dec 13, 2017)
- [Leveraging Company Engagement Across the USV Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/11/leveraging-company-engagement-across-the-usv-network.html): Across our active USV portfolio network of 70 companies, it’s highly likely that there’s at least one other person thinking about some of those same challenges. Our goal is to design an experience that makes it as easy as possible to find that individual and get your questions answered. Here’s how we leverage our network to forge meaningful connections for our 8,000+ portfolio network members. (1,002 words, Nov 9, 2017)
- [Quantitative Investing in Shampoo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/11/quantitative-investing-in-shampoo/index.html): Can a machine help you invest in shampoo? Coffee? Another consumer product? Last week, the USV portfolio company CircleUp announced the closing and launch (369 words, Nov 7, 2017)
- [The USV Portfolio Network: Now 70 Companies Strong | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/10/the-usv-portfolio-network-now-70-companies-strong/index.html): At Union Square Ventures, we spend a lot of time thinking about networks. Financial networks, social networks, data networks, and yes, even decentralized networks. But the most “meta” version of this is the network we’ve spent the past seven years cultivating among the employees of our active portfolio companies -- our USV portfolio network. (570 words, Oct 26, 2017)
- [New Adventures: Joining Union Square Ventures in NYC | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/10/new-adventures-joining-union-square-ventures-in-nyc.html): I am excited to share that I am joining the Union Square Ventures partnership alongside Albert, Andy, Fred, John, Brad, and the rest of the fantastic USV team. (615 words, Oct 20, 2017)
- [6 Ways Great Companies Use Board Decks to Their Advantage | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/10/6-ways-great-companies-use-board-decks-to-their-advantage.html): After graduating from college in June, I had the chance to spend three months at Union Square Ventures, helping with a project that created anonymous aggregate insights for USV portfolio companies by analyzing data across stages, customers, and industries. (1,495 words, Oct 17, 2017)
- [The Unknown Path to a Decentralized Future | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/09/the-unknown-path-to-a-decentralized-future/index.html): Some companies with currently centralized services have been criticized for issuing tokens and raising money in ICOs. There are even allegations that venture investors are pushing companies to do so as a ploy for liquidity. I suspect that some situations like that do actually exist, but I know from first hand conversations that many of the entrepreneurs pursuing this route are doing so out of a genuine conviction that it is the right path to a decentralized future. (439 words, Sep 22, 2017)
- [USV Network Guiding Principles | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/08/usv-network-guiding-principles/index.html): We expose frameworks and ideas, not prescriptive solutions: As VCs and not operators, we know we don’t have all the answers. We seek to expose a wide (221 words, Aug 13, 2017)
- [Flip | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/06/flip/index.html): A Google search for “apartment lease” returns 86 million results. Which makes sense. One of the constants in life is finding a place to live, and signing a long-term contract for that living place. That constant — that lease — remains in force even though changes in our lives may not line up neatly with that one- or two-year period. Many things happen to us while we are stuck with a long-term house or apartment lease: new job opportunities, new roommates or relationships, new family members, and so much more. (380 words, Jun 27, 2017)
- [Blockstack Browser and Token | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/05/blockstack-browser-and-token/index.html): Today Muneeb and Ryan from Blockstack delivered the morning keynote at the Consensus 2017 conference here in New York. They made two important announcements: first the availability of the developer edition of the Blockstack Browser and second the news that there will be a Blockstack Token. To understand the importance of both of these announcements, it useful to look at some of the history of the Internet. (704 words, May 23, 2017)
- [Protocol Labs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/05/protocol-labs/index.html): Protocol Labs made a series of announcements earlier today including that Union Square Ventures made an equity investment in the company late last year. We are thrilled to be working with Juan Benet and his team and excited to be able to share some of our thinking here. (1,266 words, May 18, 2017)
- [goTenna | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/04/gotenna/index.html): Disruptive innovations often start out as worse versions of something that already exists. Worse along all dimensions except for one, but one that turns out to really matter because it unlocks a new use case for which the incumbent does not work at all or is not affordable. The PC was slower, had less memory and less storage than a minicomputer. But it was massively more affordable and could be set up and run without the help of the centralized IT department ... (377 words, Apr 13, 2017)
- [Upgrade | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/04/upgrade/index.html): In July 2011, we were fortunate to lead the Series D financing round in Lending Club, founded in 2006 by Renaud Laplanche. Along with Zopa (UK company) and Prosper, Lending Club was a pioneer of the now-familiar marketplace lending model, which cut interest costs for high quality borrowers by as much as 50% (not a typo) and at the same time offered investors attractive risk-adjusted returns not available elsewhere. This was a fundamental innovation in financial services that is thriving globally and will continue to gain in importance. (321 words, Apr 6, 2017)
- [USV Session: Building the Healthcare Stack | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/03/usv-session-building-the-healthcare-stack/index.html): The USV portfolio network consists of 67 active companies with over 7,000 employees across the US, Canada and Europe. We believe in using the power of networks to help our portfolio companies build better businesses through peer to peer learning, external network relationships, and shared resources. On average we host 60 portfolio events each year and, in 2017 we are on track to host nearly 80 in total. (1,146 words, Mar 6, 2017)
- [Call for Genomics and Software-driven Biology Startups | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/02/call-for-genomics-and-software-driven-biology-startups.html): Everyone knows the big Web 2.0 companies use hundreds of data points to determine which ad we might prefer. And yet — in the deathmatch against disease, we reduce human health to single variables. (625 words, Feb 28, 2017)
- [Top Hat | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/02/top-hat/index.html): Even back when I was in graduate school, I found the price of textbooks to be high and their quality to vary widely. Now that I have children taking college courses, I was shocked to find textbooks that cost over $200 and are still large physical objects that have to be lugged around! The high prices and lack of innovation are the result of a market structure which has become highly concentrated among just a few textbook publishers. That's why I am excited to announce that USV has led a new round of financing for Toronto-based Top Hat, which last year launched a content marketplace for higher education. (384 words, Feb 15, 2017)
- [Tucows | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/02/tucows/index.html): Union Square Ventures has made a substantial investment in Tucows, a 23 year old company company that has been publicly traded for over 15 years. Since we have never before invested in a public company, that requires a bit of an explanation. (650 words, Feb 6, 2017)
- [Shippo and the Power of Abstraction: Introducing USPS ePostage | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/01/shippo-and-the-power-of-abstraction-introducing-usps-epostage.html): Our portfolio company Shippo today announced that it is now providing all customers with access to the United States Postal Service ePostage program. (337 words, Jan 12, 2017)
- [Digital Currency for Virtual Worlds | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/01/digital-currency-for-virtual-worlds/index.html): In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel, Snow Crash, we were introduced to the concept of a Metaverse, the 3d mixed reality heir to the Internet marked by a (728 words, Jan 9, 2017)
- [Blockstack Funding | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2017/01/blockstack-funding/index.html): We are excited to announce follow-on funding in our portfolio company Blockstack. (218 words, Jan 6, 2017)
- [Numerai | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/12/numerai/index.html): Today, we're excited to announce that USV is leading the Series A round of financing in Numerai’s management company. (664 words, Dec 12, 2016)
- [Sharing Holiday Specials from the USV Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/12/sharing-holiday-specials-from-the-usv-network/index.html): USV network companies: Let us know if you’d like us to include your holiday offer in this list!The potential of digital network effects has been crucial (374 words, Dec 1, 2016)
- [Nurx | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/10/nurx/index.html): Nurx is a service that today prescribes and delivers medication from a mobile app and in doing so is redefining the doctor-patient relationship and the practice of primary care. We are announcing today that USV had led the company's latest round of financing. (438 words, Oct 24, 2016)
- [Code Climate | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/10/code-climate/index.html): We are excited to be investors in New York City-based Code Climate, which provides tools improve quality production of code. With Code Climate you can make quality improvement explicit, continuous, and ubiquitous, by incorporating source code analytics throughout the workflow of your entire development organization. (56 words, Oct 6, 2016)
- [Hillary Clinton for President | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/10/hillary-clinton-for-president/index.html): This is the fourth presidential election during the existence of Union Square Ventures and the first one in which we as a firm feel compelled to endorse a (379 words, Oct 5, 2016)
- [Shippo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/09/shippo/index.html): Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of (324 words, Sep 9, 2016)
- [Hello! | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/08/hello/index.html): I'm Jennifer, one of the new analysts on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures!  Before joining USV, I studied statistics and computational biology (133 words, Aug 29, 2016)
- [Hello From a New Analyst | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/08/hello-from-a-new-analyst/index.html): Hi all! My name is Jacqueline Garavente and I’m excited to introduce myself as one of two new analysts joining the investment team here at USV. Prior to (218 words, Aug 29, 2016)
- [Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/index.html): Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications Here's one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The (1,287 words, Aug 8, 2016)
- [USV Opportunity Fund, circa 2016 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/07/usv-opportunity-fund-circa-2016/index.html): Over five years ago USV launched its first “Opportunity Fund” - a pool of capital meant as a complement to the core activities of our early stage funds. A (403 words, Jul 18, 2016)
- [Payjoy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/07/payjoy/index.html): Sometime in the late 90s I picked up my first mobile phone, a Motorola StarTAC. The sound quality wasn’t great but it was a radical change to no longer be (436 words, Jul 12, 2016)
- [USV 2016, LP | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/06/usv-2016-lp/index.html): This week, we will close our first investment in USV’s 2016 fund, which has total capital commitments of $175 million, the same size as our 2014 fund. (496 words, Jun 22, 2016)
- [Mediachain | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/06/mediachain/index.html): "This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting" This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on (540 words, Jun 1, 2016)
- [11 Years of the USV Investment Team | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/05/11-years-of-the-usv-investment-team/index.html): As part of our (currently open) analyst hiring process, we ask applicants to record a few videos of themselves answering questions about their views on (382 words, May 28, 2016)
- [Hiring a New Analyst | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/05/hiring-a-new-analyst/index.html): We are kicking off another search for an analyst at Union Square Ventures (USV). As in the past, we will recruit for this position using an open process. (793 words, May 6, 2016)
- [Jobbatical | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/03/jobbatical/index.html): Today we lead mostly sedentary lifestyles. Once we learned how to harvest the planet's natural resources for our survival all those thousands of years (569 words, Mar 2, 2016)
- [A New Face for the USV Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/02/a-new-face-for-the-usv-network/index.html): Hi! I’m Bethany Marzewski, and I’m thrilled to be taking over Brittany’s position as the new network General Manager at Union Square Ventures. In this (517 words, Feb 18, 2016)
- [Veniam's new round of funding | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/02/veniams-new-round-of-funding/index.html): Our portfolio company Veniam announced today that they had closed a significant new round of funding led by Verizon Ventures. The funding will allow (192 words, Feb 11, 2016)
- [Foursquare: Building the Business | Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/foursquare-building-the-business/index.html): We first invested in Foursquare in 2009 when the company was just getting going because we believed that location was a native aspect of smartphones. (264 words, Jan 14, 2016)
- [Introducing Koko | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/12/introducing-koko/index.html): Last week, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times mused in his column that the Internet was getting meaner: “If you’ve logged on to Twitter and Facebook in (623 words, Dec 15, 2015)
- [USV Thesis 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/12/usv-thesis-2-0/index.html): Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. (855 words, Dec 12, 2015)
- [SimScale | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/12/simscale/index.html): We are excited to announce our investment in Munich-based SimScale. SimScale makes complex engineering simulations, such as mechanical stress and fluid (401 words, Dec 2, 2015)
- [Quizlet | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/11/quizlet/index.html): There are some investments that take years to make. They are often our best investments. Quizlet took something like five years to go from a company we (708 words, Nov 23, 2015)
- [Clue | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/10/clue/index.html): We are excited about our investment in Berlin-based Clue, which puts women around the world in charge of their fertility and their health more generally. (325 words, Oct 9, 2015)
- [Kickstarter, PBC | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/09/kickstarter-pbc/index.html): I recall meeting Perry Chen for the first time in the old USV offices on the 14th floor back in 2009 shortly after Kickstarter launched. He and his (444 words, Sep 21, 2015)
- [USV Statement in US Telecom v. FCC Motion to Stay Open Internet Rules | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/07/usv-statement-in-us-telecom-v-fcc-motion-to-stay-open-internet-rules.html): USV occasionally engages in debate on public policy issues that impact the freedom to innovate and the health of the web. During the past year, we have (164 words, Jul 27, 2015)
- [La Ruche qui dit Oui! | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/06/la-ruche-qui-dit-oui/index.html): La Ruche qui dit Oui! (the hive that says yes) is a marketplace that connects farmers to people who want farm fresh food in their kitchens and on their (790 words, Jun 16, 2015)
- [Introducing OB1 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/06/introducing-ob1/index.html): We have said many times that we believe in emergent, decentralized, start-up innovation. Institutions public and private, no matter how well intentioned, (1,161 words, Jun 11, 2015)
- [DroneBase | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/04/dronebase/index.html): A couple years ago, in early 2013, I started writing a lot about Drones. I have always thought that Drones represent the leading edge of a robotics age. (390 words, Apr 29, 2015)
- [Clarifai | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/04/clarifai/index.html): Over 30 years ago when I first started to program I was quickly fascinated by the potential for computers to become smart. I remember writing my own (538 words, Apr 28, 2015)
- [Keeping the Internet Open | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/02/keeping-the-internet-open/index.html): Today the FCC is expected to approve its latest open internet rules, concluding the latest (but certainly not last) round in this now decade-long fight. (787 words, Feb 26, 2015)
- [Seed Investing At USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/seed-investing-at-usv/index.html): In our most recent fund, USV 2014, five of our first six investments, have been seed investments. That is probably surprising to many people as USV is not (58 words, Jan 25, 2015)
- [Introducing the USV.com topic of the week | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/introducing-the-usv-com-topic-of-the-week/index.html): As Nick, Jonathan and Fred have shared, this January we’re busy rolling out updates to USV.com. The core idea behind USV.com is to open source our (300 words, Jan 20, 2015)
- [A new coat of paint | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/a-new-coat-of-paint/index.html): You might have noticed the new look on USV.com today. We just pushed an update to make our feed more comfortable to read and interact with. I love the (309 words, Jan 14, 2015)
- [A Conversation in Berlin | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/a-conversation-in-berlin/index.html): Last month Brad and Fred held an event for entrepreneurs in Berlin with the help of the folks fromTech Open Air Berlin. Here is their conversation about (78 words, Jan 10, 2015)
- [eShares | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/eshares/index.html): Anyone who owns shares or options in a private company instinctively knows that cap table management remains frustratingly analog. At USV, we own equity (487 words, Jan 4, 2015)
- [Hello 2015 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2015/01/hello-2015/index.html): Hi Everyone -- I hope you are enjoying the beginning of the new year. As corny as it sounds, I love new years and the opportunity to get a fresh start, (202 words, Jan 1, 2015)
- [Introducing Veniam | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/12/introducing-veniam/index.html): There has been a lot of talk recently about the Internet of Things. Some analysts estimate there will be 9 billion connected devices, from parking meters (333 words, Dec 2, 2014)
- [Assembly | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/11/assembly/index.html): Web services, like governments, don't make anything, they just create the conditions necessary for their users to create value. Today's largest networks (266 words, Nov 21, 2014)
- [Onename | Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/onename/index.html): In discussing bitcoin we have always emphasized that payment is only one potential application of blockchain technology. The decentralized public ledger (244 words, Nov 12, 2014)
- [Figure 1 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/08/figure-1/index.html): Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination (357 words, Aug 6, 2014)
- [Amino | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/07/amino/index.html): Communities have long been an integral part of the Internet, online places where people can connect and share their passions and interests. And (353 words, Jul 8, 2014)
- [CrowdRise | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/04/crowdrise/index.html): In November 2010 my friend Shana Fisher sent me an email suggesting I meet Edward Norton about his crowdfunding site for charities, called CrowdRise. I (456 words, Apr 21, 2014)
- [When did America become too afraid to explore a frontier? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/02/when-did-america-become-too-afraid-to-explore-a-frontier.html): America's idea of itself is inextricably tied to the opening of the American West. In the 19th century America embraced the entrepreneurs, and rugged (272 words, Feb 27, 2014)
- [A VC: Sidecar | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2014/02/a-vc-sidecar/index.html): Announcing the investment in Sidecar that USV made last summer (10 words, Feb 19, 2014)
- [CloudFlare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/12/cloudflare/index.html): Joi Ito likes to say the Internet is a belief system. At Union Square Ventures, we believe in the Internet. We spend a lot of time thinking about how the (648 words, Dec 17, 2013)
- [Human Dx | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/11/human-dx/index.html): One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (187 words, Nov 14, 2013)
- [Bitcoin As Protocol | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/10/bitcoin-as-protocol/index.html): We owe many of the innovations that we use every day -- from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of (601 words, Oct 31, 2013)
- [Teaming up with THE Football App | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/10/teaming-up-with-the-football-app/index.html): Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He (572 words, Oct 24, 2013)
- [Splice | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/10/splice/index.html): It feels like it is fairly well understood that the Internet enables unprecedented sharing of information, ideas and content. At USV we have participated (288 words, Oct 10, 2013)
- [VHX | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/08/vhx/index.html): Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; (459 words, Aug 29, 2013)
- [Transparency in Government Surveillance | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/07/transparency-in-government-surveillance/index.html): Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow (392 words, Jul 18, 2013)
- [SigFig | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/07/sigfig/index.html): Investment management is an increasingly important problem. With the decline of defined benefit plans and the increasingly shaky social security system, (304 words, Jul 3, 2013)
- [Firebase | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/06/firebase/index.html): Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I have always had mixed feelings about this (355 words, Jun 20, 2013)
- [Auxmoney | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/06/auxmoney/index.html): Today we are delighted to announce that we have made an investment in Auxmoney, an online credit marketplace in Germany. The CEO, Raffael Johnen was in (246 words, Jun 11, 2013)
- [Yahoo acquires Tumblr | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/05/yahoo-acquires-tumblr/index.html): Yahoo announced today that they will acquire our portfolio company Tumblr. In September of 2007 we, together with Spark Capital, invested in a 3 person (333 words, May 20, 2013)
- [The Patent Quality Improvement Act | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/05/the-patent-quality-improvement-act/index.html): This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and (848 words, May 9, 2013)
- [Coinbase | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/05/coinbase/index.html): We have been thinking about and looking to make an investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem for several years. Today, we are happy to be able to talk about our (447 words, May 8, 2013)
- [CircleUp | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/05/circleup/index.html): As venture capitalists, we understand how valuable an injection of capital into an early-stage, fast-growing business can be. But our industry has a (339 words, May 6, 2013)
- [Science Exchange | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/04/science-exchange/index.html): Right now, there are thousands of scientists whose research is being held up because they lack access to the experimental expertise needed to test a (367 words, Apr 29, 2013)
- [Shapeways Restocks | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/04/shapeways-restocks/index.html): In the Fall of 2010 we helped spin Shapeways out of Philips. At the time, the founders made a gutsy choice: relocating the company headquarters to New (168 words, Apr 23, 2013)
- [Foursquare Checks In | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/04/foursquare-checks-in/index.html): Today Foursquare announced that it has raised $41 million coming from its existing investors (including USV) and adding Silver Lake's Waterman Fund. This (441 words, Apr 11, 2013)
- [Kitchensurfing | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/04/kitchensurfing/index.html): What's in your kitchen? Probably a stove, sink, running water, oven, refrigerator, cutlery and other utensils, sometimes a microwave oven. Precisely the (400 words, Apr 3, 2013)
- [Sift Science | Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/sift-science/index.html): As more and more economic activity moves online, fraud is never far behind. Online fraud is in many ways more attractive to criminals as it can be (361 words, Mar 19, 2013)
- [Hailo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2013/02/hailo/index.html): We're excited to announce today that USV led the recent round of financing in Hailo, the e-hail company based in London and New York. Hailo is rapidly (342 words, Feb 5, 2013)
- [Behance Joins Adobe To Scale Creative Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/12/behance-joins-adobe-to-scale-creative-network/index.html): Earlier this year we invested in New York based Behance. We had known and followed Scott and the team for several years and kept an active dialog about (178 words, Dec 20, 2012)
- [Visualizing our Investments | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/11/visualizing-our-investments/index.html): Union Square Ventures is a thesis driven firm. We don't really invest in the consumer web, networks, mobile, the cloud, or any specific technology. We (278 words, Nov 30, 2012)
- [Looking for Design Talent | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/10/looking-for-design-talent/index.html): We are excited to announce a Behance talent audition to identify five designers that will be commissioned to update the look and feel of USV's identity. (427 words, Oct 10, 2012)
- [Researching Online Education | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/10/researching-online-education/index.html): We've blogged about many aspects of USV, including our investment thesis and our preferences on deal terms, but we've rarely shared our internal research (275 words, Oct 3, 2012)
- [Pollenware (C2FO) | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/09/pollenware-c2fo/index.html): If you follow our investment strategy, you know we love internet-based marketplaces that enable direct transactions between interested parties. What is (380 words, Sep 5, 2012)
- [Networks And The Enterprise | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/08/networks-and-the-enterprise/index.html): Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don't think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has (1,065 words, Aug 30, 2012)
- [Brewster | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/07/brewster/index.html): Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books. It makes no (557 words, Jul 12, 2012)
- [Joining USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/2012/06/joining-usv-php.html): Hi there, I'm Brian, one of the new analysts (along with Zander) joining the investment team at Union Square Ventures. I couldn't be more excited to get (238 words, Jun 26, 2012)
- [Hello World | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/06/hello-world-2/index.html): I first came to USV one year ago, almost to the day, as a hackNY fellow. Fred, Brad and Albert gave a talk about venture capital, with a special emphasis (341 words, Jun 26, 2012)
- [And Then There Were Nine | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/06/and-then-there-were-nine/index.html): Last October, we posted about our search for a new analyst at USV. We received many outstanding applications and spent the fall reading blog posts, (140 words, Jun 26, 2012)
- [Duolingo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/06/duolingo/index.html): Luis von Ahn is nothing if not ambitious. The inventor of the captcha and the founder of re-captcha has a new goal - to translate the web into every major (485 words, Jun 18, 2012)
- [The Next Stage of USV.com | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/06/the-next-stage-of-usv-com/index.html): Almost seven years ago, USV decided that our web site should be a blog. One that allowed for a varied and ongoing conversation with the world and one that (221 words, Jun 6, 2012)
- [Investment Thesis @USV | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/05/investment-thesis-usv/index.html): Venture firms operate a bunch of different ways. Some have a geographical focus, others have a sector focus, still others have a stage focus. Union Square (509 words, May 27, 2012)
- [Behance | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/05/behance/index.html): We have long believed that the Internet is about giving "power to the people." One way in which the Internet does that is by letting people show what they (189 words, May 14, 2012)
- [B Corporation | Union Square Ventures](/content/2012/05/b-corporation-php.html): Etsy announced yesterday that the company has become a Certified B Corporation. In doing so Etsy joins a growing group of now over 500 companies that (285 words, May 10, 2012)
- [Hacking Society | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/04/hacking-society/index.html): Today we are excited to bring together a group of thinkers and doers to USV to discuss how networks are transforming our society and economy (25 words, Apr 24, 2012)
- [The Twitter "Patent Hack" | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/04/the-twitter-patent-hack/index.html): Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the (658 words, Apr 18, 2012)
- [Funding Circle | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/04/funding-circle/index.html): The shift from hierarchical models of resource allocation to more efficient marketplaces is occurring not only in handmade goods or creative projects, but (452 words, Apr 1, 2012)
- [The Freedom to Innovate | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/03/the-freedom-to-innovate/index.html): Last night, I had the honor of speaking at the Center For Democracy and Technology's 2012 Annual Dinner. Here is what I shared with the audience:I started (1,850 words, Mar 14, 2012)
- [Dwolla | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2012/02/dwolla/index.html): Money is one of the fundamental underpinnings of the economy, yet we largely take it for granted. When we pay for our morning cup of coffee (or tea) with (464 words, Feb 6, 2012)
- [What comes next | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/11/what-comes-next/index.html): Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven't (1,156 words, Nov 28, 2011)
- [Help Protect Internet Innovation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/11/help-protect-internet-innovation/index.html): We have previously written about why the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is bad for innovation. The same is true of the House version of this bill which is called (520 words, Nov 16, 2011)
- [Analyst hiring update #2 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/10/analyst-hiring-update-2/index.html): A few weeks ago, we announced we're looking for someone to join the USV team as an analyst. We accepted applications for two weeks, until October 14, (209 words, Oct 24, 2011)
- [Codecademy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/10/codecademy/index.html): A few weeks back, Ryan Bubinski, who co-founded Codecademy with Zach Sims, said to me that he thought learning how to code should be a fundamental skill (475 words, Oct 23, 2011)
- [My Back Pages | Union Square Ventures](/content/2011/10/my-back-pages-php.html): For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I'm excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have (336 words, Oct 20, 2011)
- [Duck Duck Go | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/10/duck-duck-go/index.html): When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed (421 words, Oct 13, 2011)
- [Analyst hiring update | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/10/analyst-hiring-update/index.html): A reminder we're closing applications for the investment analyst position at 6pm Eastern time Thursday, Oct. 13. After applications close, we'll review (139 words, Oct 7, 2011)
- [We're hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/09/were-hiring-2/index.html): Union Square Ventures has a long history - in internet time at least - of hiring off this blog (posts here, here, and here.) A fundamental assumption of (634 words, Sep 28, 2011)
- [Turntable | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/09/turntable/index.html): Sometimes you end up loving something you don't want to. When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login button that I (578 words, Sep 13, 2011)
- [Wattpad | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/09/wattpad/index.html): Stories have been with us probably as long as language has, and the need for stories appears deeply rooted in all of us. We have come a long way from (359 words, Sep 12, 2011)
- [Jig - When You Need A Little Help | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/09/jig-when-you-need-a-little-help/index.html): When we first announced our investment in what was then called Tasty Labs we provided no indication as to what the team was building. That's because they (360 words, Sep 6, 2011)
- [Skillshare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/08/skillshare/index.html): The Internet has been an amazing platform for creating and distributing educational content. Khan Academy has become the canonical example cited here but (384 words, Aug 16, 2011)
- [Lending Club | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/08/lending-club/index.html): Have you ever wondered why a bank charges an 18+% interest rate on credit card balances (regardless of credit history), but only pays depositors 1% on (349 words, Aug 3, 2011)
- [The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/06/the-protect-ip-act-will-slow-start-up-innovation/index.html): As venture capitalists, we believe deeply in the value of decentralized, emergent, start-up innovation. The Internet has been an unusually fertile ground (794 words, Jun 23, 2011)
- [Canvas | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/06/canvas/index.html): We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we (387 words, Jun 13, 2011)
- [Wattpad's Continued Re-Imagining of the Book | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/06/wattpads-continued-re-imagining-of-the-book/index.html): This week is Book Expo America which is the biggest book trade show in the US. That's a great moment for reflecting on how the book is being transformed (177 words, Jun 6, 2011)
- [Kickstarter | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/03/kickstarter/index.html): In the fall of 2009, we met the founding team at Kickstarter. Perry, Yancey, and Charles had built a marketplace where anyone could fund and follow (298 words, Mar 17, 2011)
- [Stack Overflow becomes Stack Exchange | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/03/stack-overflow-becomes-stack-exchange/index.html): We are thrilled to announce that Stack Overflow has closed a follow-on round of financing led by Index Ventures with participation from Spark Capital and (198 words, Mar 9, 2011)
- [Innovation in Education | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/03/innovation-in-education/index.html): Today, President Obama will visit TechBoston Academy together with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Melinda Gates. The President is likely to renew (648 words, Mar 7, 2011)
- [Kik | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/03/kik/index.html): 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 (353 words, Mar 6, 2011)
- [The Opportunity Fund | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/07/usv-opportunity-fund-circa-2016/the-opportunity-fund/index.html): 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. (687 words, Jan 15, 2011)
- [SoundCloud | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2011/01/soundcloud/index.html): 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 (410 words, Jan 7, 2011)
- [Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic | Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/internet-access-should-be-application-agnostic/index.html): 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 (885 words, Dec 8, 2010)
- [Edmodo | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/12/edmodo/index.html): 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 (397 words, Dec 7, 2010)
- [10gen Fills The Tank | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/12/10gen-fills-the-tank/index.html): The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. (110 words, Dec 3, 2010)
- [Tasty Labs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/11/tasty-labs/index.html): We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter's new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed (93 words, Nov 24, 2010)
- [Shapeways | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/09/shapeways/index.html): Earlier this year we wrote about how there is a revolution going on in manufacturing due to the advances in 3D printing. The New York Times also recently (286 words, Sep 22, 2010)
- [Internet Architecture and Innovation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/08/internet-architecture-and-innovation/index.html): Barbara van Schewick's book, Internet Architecture and Innovation, is out and everyone who cares about the future of the Internet should click here and (295 words, Aug 10, 2010)
- [A Threat to Startups | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/08/a-threat-to-startups/index.html): We believe that Google and Verizon's proposed policy principles to preserve an open Internet came out of a good faith effort to bring some clarity to the (382 words, Aug 10, 2010)
- [Policies to Encourage Startup Innovation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/07/policies-to-encourage-startup-innovation/index.html): We have commented a number of times in a number of ways on this blog about how technology startups can no longer afford to ignore politics. When the tech (835 words, Jul 27, 2010)
- [Getting Started | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/06/getting-started/index.html): Hi, I'm Gary Chou and I'm thrilled to join the team as the General Manager of the Union Square Ventures Network. I'll be supporting the companies in the (171 words, Jun 29, 2010)
- [Work Market | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/06/work-market/index.html): We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this (223 words, Jun 14, 2010)
- [Web Services as Governments | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/06/web-services-as-governments/index.html): This spring Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, made controversial announcements. Apple announced the terms of service for the iPhone OS 4, that restricted how (1,389 words, Jun 10, 2010)
- [A new member of the USV team | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/06/a-new-member-of-the-usv-team/index.html): Like many of you, I began reading the Union Square Ventures blog because of Albert, Brad, and Fred's open discussions of the disruptions caused by new (388 words, Jun 8, 2010)
- [Final Hiring Update | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/06/final-hiring-update/index.html): We are excited to announce that we will shortly have two new members for the Union Square Ventures team! They will introduce themselves on this blog as (122 words, Jun 1, 2010)
- [Hiring Update #4 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/05/hiring-update-4/index.html): As of yesterday we have completed our 75+ phone screens. If you have applied but have not heard from us at all by now, then we somehow missed you and (147 words, May 7, 2010)
- [Stack Overflow | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/05/stack-overflow/index.html): As a consumer of information on the internet, I often find myself doing a variety of long tail searches on esoteric topics that relate to some niche part (1,131 words, May 6, 2010)
- [Hiring Update #3 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/04/hiring-update-3/index.html): This is a two-part update: first some notes on process and then some additional info on applicants. We managed to complete a first pass of all 616 (220 words, Apr 27, 2010)
- [Hiring Update | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/04/hiring-update/index.html): Since we posted about hiring on Monday, we have received well over 400 applications. Based on a first pass we are completely blown away by the diversity (84 words, Apr 17, 2010)
- [We Are Hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/2010/04/usv-is-hiring-php.html): It's Spring in New York. The pear trees and magnolias are in full bloom and everyone on the street is smiling, reminded again of irrepressible rhythm of (1,009 words, Apr 12, 2010)
- [Hiring Update #2 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/04/hiring-update-2/index.html): As of a few minutes ago we have closed Jobscore for new candidates for our two open positions. We are excited about the incredible response, but ask for (283 words, Apr 10, 2010)
- [Bidding Goodbye to Andrew | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/03/bidding-goodbye-to-andrew/index.html): Four years ago this summer, Andrew Parker joined Union Square Ventures. Brad wrote this post welcoming Andrew to our firm and explaining how we found him (381 words, Mar 23, 2010)
- [Communicator: Done. Replicator: Next. The Future of Making Stuff. | Union Square Ventures](/content/2010/03/communicator-done-replicator-next-the-future-of-making-stuff-php.html): I am an unabashed Star Trek fan and was thrilled to see JJ Abrams breath new life into the franchise. The original series popularized some technologies (1,020 words, Mar 22, 2010)
- [Software patents are the problem not the answer | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-not-the-answer/index.html): Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We'd both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very (1,207 words, Feb 19, 2010)
- [Twilio | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/02/twilio/index.html): One of the great promises of cloud computing is to make things that were previously difficult easy. Complexity is hidden and a service can be accessed (523 words, Feb 8, 2010)
- [We need an independent invention defense to minimize the damage of aggressive patent trolls | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2010/01/we-need-an-independent-invention-defense-to-minimize-the-damage-of-aggressive-patent-trolls.html): Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it possible that one third of the engineering teams in our portfolio unethically (849 words, Jan 11, 2010)
- [Introducing Tracked.com | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/10/introducing-tracked-com/index.html): At Union Square Ventures, we seldom invest in a company before it launches publicly. The exception is when we have the opportunity to back an experienced (470 words, Oct 21, 2009)
- [Foursquare | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/09/foursquare/index.html): We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications that simply were not possible previously (as opposed (339 words, Sep 1, 2009)
- [Chris and Malcolm are both wrong | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/08/chris-and-malcolm-are-both-wrong/index.html): Many of you are familiar with dust up between Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell that was touched off by Malcolm's review of Chris's new book, Free: The (1,177 words, Aug 9, 2009)
- [The Mobile Challenge | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2016/01/foursquare-building-the-business/blog/the-mobile-challenge/index.html): We are fascinated by the disruption underway in mobile applications. Carriers seem to have lost their role as gatekeepers for applications as smartphone (1,029 words, Jun 25, 2009)
- [Bring the world to your event | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/06/bring-the-world-to-your-event/index.html): Union Square Ventures hosted an event called Hacking Education that sparked conversations far beyond the day of the event, and did so in a way where we (563 words, Jun 15, 2009)
- [Heyzap | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/05/heyzap/index.html): Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in (506 words, May 26, 2009)
- [Hacking Education | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/05/hacking-education-2/index.html): It has been two months since we hosted a great group of academics, entrepreneurs, educators, and administrators at our Union Square Sessions Event, (3,533 words, May 8, 2009)
- [Open Spectrum is Good Policy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/04/open-spectrum-is-good-policy/index.html): Fred wrote a post earlier this week advocating for more "open spectrum". Fred argues in his post that freeing up more open spectrum will have a much (1,885 words, Apr 3, 2009)
- [Hacking Education | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/03/hacking-education/index.html): Today we put on an event called Hacking Education which is about the intersection of education and technology.Thanks to all those who came out to the (110 words, Mar 6, 2009)
- [Welcome Back Dave | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/03/welcome-back-dave/index.html): There is an old and perhaps slightly shopworn saying in the venture business that you back the jockey and not the horse. But in markets undergoing (239 words, Mar 5, 2009)
- [Pinch Media's iPhone App Store Secrets | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/02/pinch-medias-iphone-app-store-secrets/index.html): There is a great post up on the Pinch Media blog that links to a presentation they did for an IPhone user's group here in New York. Pinch Media provides (85 words, Feb 25, 2009)
- [Twitter Fills The Tank | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/02/twitter-fills-the-tank/index.html): This is hardly news since it leaked almost a month ago. Today our portfolio company Twitter announced that it has raised $35mm from two west coast venture (238 words, Feb 13, 2009)
- [Arguing From First Principles | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2009/01/arguing-from-first-principles/index.html): David Swensen, the guy who manages Yale University's $19 billion endowment was asked the other night by Charlie Rose if there was anything he learned in (796 words, Jan 28, 2009)
- [AMEE | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/12/amee/index.html): As anybody who has looked into dieting or just improving their nutrition knows, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the impact of fats and (761 words, Dec 10, 2008)
- [Boxee | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/11/boxee/index.html): One of the big "aha moments" for me in the past couple years came when I hooked up a Mac Mini to a large display in our family room in the spring of 2007. (872 words, Nov 17, 2008)
- [Return Path | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/10/return-path/index.html): Reputation is critical to most businesses, but on the Internet reputation takes on an even more important role. When you do business with a person or a (839 words, Oct 30, 2008)
- [Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/09/why-the-flow-of-innovation-has-reversed/index.html): I had a beer recently with Dave McClure of 500 Hats. As is always the case when I get together with Dave, we had a long, rambling and enjoyable (699 words, Sep 29, 2008)
- [Power to the People | Union Square Ventures](/content/2008/09/power-to-the-pe-1-php.html): We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic (1,002 words, Sep 22, 2008)
- [Zemanta | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/09/zemanta/index.html): We've invested in a number of blogging related applications and services; Adaptive Blue, Delicious, Disqus, FeedBurner, Outside.in, Twitter, and Tumblr. (558 words, Sep 15, 2008)
- [Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/07/meetup-the-original-web-meets-world-company/index.html): Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined (891 words, Jul 23, 2008)
- [Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/07/zynga-announces-new-investment-from-kleiner-perkins-and-ivp.html): Our portfolo company Zynga closed a $29mm round of financing last week which was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. We participated in the round, as did (72 words, Jul 23, 2008)
- [10gen | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/07/10gen/index.html): 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 (858 words, Jul 21, 2008)
- [Twitter Acquires Summize | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/07/twitter-acquires-summize/index.html): Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize. We have known the Summize team and have followed their (107 words, Jul 15, 2008)
- [Twitter Raises A Second Round Of Funding | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/06/twitter-raises-a-second-round-of-funding/index.html): Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that they have closed a second round of financing, led by Spark Capital and including Jeff Bezos' investment (94 words, Jun 24, 2008)
- [Internet for Everyone | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/06/internet-for-everyone/index.html): This morning Union Square Ventures endorsed an initiative called Internet for Everyone. This group does not sponsor specific policies or legislation. (330 words, Jun 24, 2008)
- [Call for Topics | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/06/call-for-topics/index.html): 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 (98 words, Jun 17, 2008)
- [And Then There Were Five | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/06/and-then-there-were-five/index.html): 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 (231 words, Jun 10, 2008)
- [The Weird Economics of Information | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/06/the-weird-economics-of-information/index.html): Several months ago I ventured into the spooky economics of information with a post that suggested that data had an increasing marginal utility. A number (1,072 words, Jun 2, 2008)
- [Pinch Media - Investing on a New Platform | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/05/pinch-media-investing-on-a-new-platform/index.html): New platforms create new opportunities. One would think that established vendors with big balance sheets, big investments in R&D, and established brands (508 words, May 29, 2008)
- [Losing Jason | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/05/losing-jason/index.html): Jason Knight stepped down from his role as the CEO of Wesabe yesterday in order to devote his full attention to a medical situation in his family. (173 words, May 23, 2008)
- [Outside.in Steps It Up | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/05/outside-in-steps-it-up/index.html): Most companies grow in steps. They operate at one level for a while, make good progress, then take a step up, and start operating at a new level.In the (344 words, May 20, 2008)
- [Wesabe Steps Out | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/04/wesabe-steps-out/index.html): Over a year ago when we first started thinking about personal financial management tools on the web, I had this OMG moment when I realized that a web (822 words, Apr 24, 2008)
- [AB Meta | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/04/ab-meta/index.html): Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, (263 words, Apr 22, 2008)
- [This is Nuts | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/04/this-is-nuts/index.html): Yesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The (690 words, Apr 10, 2008)
- [I (May) Have a New Platform | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/04/i-may-have-a-new-platform/index.html): Google has unveiled App Engine and unlike some other recent Google efforts this one feels fully baked and well thought-out. For starters it includes all (113 words, Apr 8, 2008)
- [Covestor | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/04/covestor/index.html): Access to financial markets is fairly open. All it takes is a bit of money to set up a brokerage account and one can start buying stocks. Over the last (663 words, Apr 7, 2008)
- [Structural Change and Marketplaces | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/03/structural-change-and-marketplaces/index.html): There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. (1,183 words, Mar 26, 2008)
- [Disqus | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/03/disqus/index.html): We are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rely on the New York (110 words, Mar 17, 2008)
- [TargetSpot Raises Series B Round | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/03/targetspot-raises-series-b-round/index.html): Last year, we helped get a company started called TargetSpot. TargetSpot is the first self serve ad network for streaming audio and internet radio. (232 words, Mar 11, 2008)
- [New Fund - Same Focus | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/03/new-fund-same-focus/index.html): We closed on Union Square Ventures 2008 LP last week. Our new fund, at $156mm in capital ments, is large enough for us to be able to act on our conviction (589 words, Mar 5, 2008)
- [We're Hiring | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/02/were-hiring/index.html): ** Update: this position has since been filled. **We are looking to hire a new analyst here at Union Square Ventures. The analyst position at Union Square (319 words, Feb 11, 2008)
- [Etsy's New Financing And What They Are Going To Do With It | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/01/etsys-new-financing-and-what-they-are-going-to-do-with-it.html): Last week Union Square Ventures participated in a Series D round for Etsy. We have participated in every round of financing for the company and pleased to (83 words, Jan 30, 2008)
- [Zynga Game Network | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2008/01/zynga-game-network/index.html): In the middle of last year my friend Mark Pincus stopped by my office to tell me what he'd been up to. Facebook apps it turned out, of course. He said, (716 words, Jan 15, 2008)
- [Google's Data Asset | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/12/googles-data-asset/index.html): Tim O’Reilly has been saying for several years that data is the Intel Inside of web services. I am not sure the analogy is completely accurate. The (1,083 words, Dec 21, 2007)
- [Why Early Stage Venture Investments Fail | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/11/why-early-stage-venture-investments-fail/index.html): In my last post on failure rates in early stage venture capital, I made the point that every portfolio is going to have failures. I’ve made 32 direct (983 words, Nov 30, 2007)
- [Failure Rates In Early Stage Venture Deals | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/11/failure-rates-in-early-stage-venture-deals/index.html): My friend Jeff Jarvis invited me to talk to his class yesterday. Jeff is doing something really cool. He’s teaching graduate students in journalism school (510 words, Nov 29, 2007)
- [Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/11/why-past-performance-is-a-good-predictor-of-future-returns-in-the-venture-capital-asset-class.html): I wrote a series of blog posts about venture capital fund performance on my personal weblog several weeks ago. One of the things that came out of that (1,386 words, Nov 26, 2007)
- [Tumblr | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/10/tumblr/index.html): I have many locations on the internet where I can point to and say "that's a piece of me." There are a number of web services on which I output for my (1,017 words, Oct 23, 2007)
- [Markets and Philanthropy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/10/markets-and-philanthropy/index.html): It has been three weeks since we hosted a group of technologists and philanthropists to talk about the impact of technology on philanthropy. I have now (1,981 words, Oct 22, 2007)
- [Hacking Philanthropy - The Transcript | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/10/hacking-philanthropy-the-transcript/index.html): Here is the transcript for the Hacking Philanthropy Sessions event. It was a tough assignment for the transcriptionist. It was a large room where 40 high (267 words, Oct 5, 2007)
- [Union Square Sessions 3: Hacking Philanthropy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/09/union-square-sessions-3-hacking-philanthropy/index.html): Every so often Union Square Ventures brings together a small group for a day-long conversation about the interplay between technology and society. We call (268 words, Sep 26, 2007)
- [I Want a New Platform | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/09/i-want-a-new-platform/index.html): One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t make me sleep all day (when I should (1,193 words, Sep 19, 2007)
- [There Are No Open Web Services | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/09/there-are-no-open-web-services/index.html): Let's start with a definition. A service is open when anyone can take anything (code, data, etc) from that service and do anything they want with it, (531 words, Sep 18, 2007)
- [What I want from Bug Labs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/09/what-i-want-from-bug-labs/index.html): The wraps have started to come off of Bug Labs. Their site is now up and they have begun an active dialogue with enthusiasts that is shaping their design (1,541 words, Sep 6, 2007)
- [Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/08/hiring-a-vp-of-engineering-or-cto-for-non-techie-first-time-founders.html): So you start a web service with some friends. They do the programming. You do everything else. Suddenly the service takes off. You are thrilled and (847 words, Aug 8, 2007)
- [Twitter | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/07/twitter/index.html): The Internet is largely a communications medium. It's also used for content distribution, commerce, and a number of other things. But the thing I do most (696 words, Jul 25, 2007)
- [AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/07/aol-time-warner-buys-tacoda/index.html): We are pleased to announce today that AOL/Time Warner has agreed to buy our portfolio company TACODA. As is always the case with a company you have worked (1,165 words, Jul 23, 2007)
- [Clickable | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/07/clickable/index.html): Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred (551 words, Jul 2, 2007)
- [Introducing Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/06/introducing-albert-wenger/index.html): We actually don't need to introduce Albert Wenger to many of you who are involved with Union Square Ventures on a regular basis. Albert was the President (272 words, Jun 25, 2007)
- [Wesabe Is More Than A "Personal" Financial Service | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/06/wesabe-is-more-than-a-personal-financial-service/index.html): Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity (1,441 words, Jun 20, 2007)
- [FeedBurner Is Acquired by Google | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/05/feedburner-is-acquired-by-google/index.html): This is hardly a surprise since rumors of this deal have been all over the blog world for the better part of the past month. But it is true that (655 words, May 30, 2007)
- [Dick Costolo on Wallstrip | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/05/dick-costolo-on-wallstrip/index.html): Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner, was interviewed today on Wallstrip. The interview is an entertaining summary that explains what FeedBurner does, why (34 words, May 25, 2007)
- [Who do you trust to edit your news? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/05/who-do-you-trust-to-edit-your-news/index.html): I can’t say that the panel discussion – Web 2.0: Cult of the Amateur? A Debate – was the most interesting or even the most entertaining session at the (412 words, May 21, 2007)
- [Job Board | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/05/job-board/index.html): Union Square Ventures is launching a job board on our blog. The board contains open positions only at our portfolio companies. If you are interested in (222 words, May 14, 2007)
- [TargetSpot | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/04/targetspot/index.html): I’ve spent a lot of time in the past eight years working with the radio broadcast industry on the conversion of their business from analog to digital. (843 words, Apr 24, 2007)
- [Cash Flow Forecasting Isn't What It Used To Be | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/04/cash-flow-forecasting-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/index.html): I share Fred’s determination never to miss out on a later round investment in a company we have nurtured because we do not have adequate reserves. For me, (878 words, Apr 13, 2007)
- [Reserves | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/04/reserves/index.html): In early stage investing, one of the most critical things is the ability to continue to participate in the follow on rounds to protect your ownership (680 words, Apr 12, 2007)
- [Outside.in | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/02/outside-in/index.html): One form of media that hasn't yet been well executed on the Internet is local media. Yes, local search is available, and Google's offering in this area (743 words, Feb 23, 2007)
- [AdaptiveBlue | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/02/adaptiveblue/index.html): The genius of the web is that it is flat – anything can be a link and anything can be linked to. But this is also one of its greatest limitations. When (1,338 words, Feb 21, 2007)
- [SIAA Preview Keynote | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/01/siaa-preview-keynote/index.html): I gave a keynote at the Information Industry Summit yesterday during the "preview session" which features emerging information businesses.We've been (141 words, Jan 30, 2007)
- [What's next? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2019/01/therapeutic-computing/blog/whats-next/index.html): The sense of progress in the computer industry is so strong that it feels almost inevitable. That momentum may be most obvious in the increasing (607 words, Jan 24, 2007)
- [Why We Don't Invest In Competitive Businesses | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/01/why-we-dont-invest-in-competitive-businesses/index.html): I was trading emails with one of our portfolio company CEOs last week. The subject was a company that was looking for venture capital that offered a (478 words, Jan 15, 2007)
- [Founders and Management | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2007/01/founders-and-management/index.html): It's been a while since our last post on this blog. Year end activities got in the way. We were in the midst of a string of posts on what we look for in (1,784 words, Jan 10, 2007)
- [Geography | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/11/geography/index.html): Each month we see something like thirty to fifty new investment opportunities that generally fit our investment strategy. They come from all over the (1,162 words, Nov 28, 2006)
- [Customer Service is the New Marketing | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/11/customer-service-is-the-new-marketing/index.html): I had a cup of coffee yesterday with Craig Newmark. Toward the end of the conversation, I told him that one of the most important things I learned by (923 words, Nov 7, 2006)
- [Deal Size | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/10/deal-size/index.html): Brad and I have been doing early stage investing since the late 80s (me) and early 90s (Brad). For most of our career, a typical early stage venture round (755 words, Oct 24, 2006)
- [Lead Investor | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/10/lead-investor/index.html): My good friend Charley says that I "don't follow very well". He means that I don't like to participate in the Series B and C rounds of deals that have (615 words, Oct 15, 2006)
- [Traction | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/09/traction/index.html): This is my second post on "other things we look for". I hesitated to use the title Traction because its certainly one of the most overused words in the (765 words, Sep 30, 2006)
- [Early Stage Investing | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/09/early-stage-investing/index.html): I thought I'd lead off my series of posts on "other things we look for" with a discussion of our preference for early stage investing. Most of our (691 words, Sep 19, 2006)
- [History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/09/history-doesnt-repeat-itself-but-it-does-rhyme/index.html): When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and (542 words, Sep 18, 2006)
- [Other Things We Look For | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/09/other-things-we-look-for/index.html): Last month Brad wrote a series of posts on the things we look for in our investments. Those posts are archived here. As Brad said in his introduction to (276 words, Sep 6, 2006)
- [Welcome Andrew Parker | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/welcome-andrew-parker/index.html): A few weeks ago we mentioned that we were looking for the right person to replace Charlie, who had left us to take a product management position at (411 words, Aug 17, 2006)
- [Business Development 2.0 | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/business-development-2-0/index.html): It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in search of deals that (473 words, Aug 17, 2006)
- [Scalability | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/scalability/index.html): One of the common concerns about IT enabled services generally and web services specifically is that they do not have the potential to scale. When the (698 words, Aug 11, 2006)
- [Defensibility | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/defensibility/index.html): Historically the defensibility of information technology companies has been based on intellectual property - usually patents, sometimes copyrights. From (642 words, Aug 10, 2006)
- [Information Technology Leverage | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/information-technology-leverage/index.html): Not all IT enabled services businesses get the same value from their IT investment. We look for companies that have substantial technology leverage. When (249 words, Aug 9, 2006)
- [Potential to change the structure of markets | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/potential-to-change-the-structure-of-markets/index.html): We invest in IT enabled services that have the potential to change the structure of markets. We see many plans that claim to incrementally improve the (338 words, Aug 8, 2006)
- [Our Focus | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/08/our-focus/index.html): A year ago when we first re-launched our web site as a blog, we did so because we felt that the environment was too volatile for a fixed investment (691 words, Aug 6, 2006)
- [Looking For The Right Person | Union Square Ventures](/content/2006/07/looking-for-the-php.html): 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 (430 words, Jul 12, 2006)
- [Through the Looking Glass into the Net Neutrality Debate | Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/through-the-looking-glass-into-the-net-neutrality-debate.html): There is this wonderful Alice in Wonderland quality to the current Net Neutrality debate. Listening to the rhetoric, one s to feel that up is, in fact, (1,198 words, Jul 11, 2006)
- [Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/07/do-patents-encourage-or-stifle-innovation/index.html): At our recent Union Square Sessions event, we discussed three primary topics relating to public policy and innovation; net neutrality, copyrights, and (452 words, Jul 7, 2006)
- [A Bittersweet Moment | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/07/a-bittersweet-moment/index.html): 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 (224 words, Jul 7, 2006)
- [Sessions | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/sessions/index.html): 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 (893 words, Jun 29, 2006)
- [Union Square Sessions 2 - Public Policy and Innovation | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/union-square-sessions-2-public-policy-and-innovation.html): Yesterday we hosted a group of academics, policy professionals, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for a conversation about public policy and its (374 words, Jun 16, 2006)
- [Oddcast | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/oddcast/index.html): Last week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors.Oddcast is the leading (510 words, Jun 13, 2006)
- [Why We Admire Craigslist | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/why-we-admire-craigslist/index.html): Craig Newmark came by last week and spent an hour with us and the leaders of several of our portfolio companies. I kicked off the conversation by (397 words, Jun 9, 2006)
- [Etsy | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/etsy/index.html): When it comes to online commerce, we are big fans of community and marketplaces. In the age of “search for the lowest price” retailing, there are few (573 words, Jun 5, 2006)
- [How Does Indeed Make Money? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/06/how-does-indeed-make-money/index.html): A number of people have asked me this question in response to my post on Indeed from several weeks ago.Fortunately Paul Forster, CEO of Indeed, has laid (216 words, Jun 5, 2006)
- [Replicating Silicon Valley | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/replicating-silicon-valley/index.html): Paul Graham recently wrote an essay on venture capital and startups called How To Be Silicon Valley and I recommend everyone who works in the technology, (1,126 words, May 31, 2006)
- [What Else Are You Interested In? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/what-else-are-you-interested-in/index.html): Our portfolio company, TACODA, is the leader in behavioral targeting. They are working with publishers all over the Internet. They identify what users are (170 words, May 23, 2006)
- [Advertising to Job Seekers | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/advertising-to-job-seekers/index.html): Our portfolio company, Indeed.com, has announced the commercial availability of a cost per click (CPC) advertising system targeting job seekers.What that (498 words, May 14, 2006)
- [Introducing Bug Labs | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/introducing-bug-labs/index.html): The two things we respect most in an entrepreneur are experience and passion. In entrepreneurship, as in life, they do not always go together. So we are (237 words, May 9, 2006)
- [On Influence | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/on-influence/index.html): 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 (384 words, May 8, 2006)
- [User Tagging Is Fundamental | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/user-tagging-is-fundamental/index.html): Earlier this week a fact checker from New York Magazine called me to ask a few questions about Union Square Ventures. Apparently we are in the next issue (292 words, May 3, 2006)
- [A Stray Thought on the Micro-chunking of Media | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/05/a-stray-thought-on-the-micro-chunking-of-media/index.html): This is one of those blindingly obvious revelations that make you feel a little dumb in retrospect. It occurred to me over the weekend, as I leafed (346 words, May 2, 2006)
- [Why has the flow of technology reversed? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/04/why-has-the-flow-of-technology-reversed/index.html): Esther and Fred are right that at least in some specific areas like lightweight web services, the flow of technology has reversed. This creates an (421 words, Apr 14, 2006)
- [Taking Web Services To The Office | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/04/taking-web-services-to-the-office/index.html): Most of the innovation in web services over the past three to four years (what is popularly known as web 2.0) has been focused on the end user as the (671 words, Apr 13, 2006)
- [Yes but.... | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/03/yes-but/index.html): 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 (619 words, Mar 26, 2006)
- [Looking Ahead | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/03/looking-ahead/index.html): 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 (343 words, Mar 23, 2006)
- [Will Computing Ever Be As Invisible As Electricity | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/03/will-computing-ever-be-as-invisible-as-electricity/index.html): Many years ago, I read an article that made a big impression on me. It compared the adoption of information technology to the adoption of electricity. The (685 words, Mar 20, 2006)
- [TACODA Raises $12 million | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/03/tacoda-raises-12-million/index.html): TACODA (that is now the official name of the company) announced that it recently closed on a round of $12 million that will allow it to continue expanding (247 words, Mar 9, 2006)
- [Web Services and Devices | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/web-services-and-devices/index.html): 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 (438 words, Feb 27, 2006)
- [Advisory Capital | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/advisory-capital/index.html): 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 (518 words, Feb 23, 2006)
- [Research and Development | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/research-and-development/index.html): 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 (412 words, Feb 15, 2006)
- [Why We Invested in FeedBurner | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/why-we-invested-in-feedburner/index.html): 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 (866 words, Feb 7, 2006)
- [Feedburner | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/feedburner/index.html): 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 (226 words, Feb 7, 2006)
- [Mathematics - How much is enough | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/mathematics-how-much-is-enough/index.html): 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 (635 words, Feb 2, 2006)
- [Web 2.0 is an Oxymoron | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/02/web-2-0-is-an-oxymoron/index.html): I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting.It was a fun panel, (363 words, Feb 1, 2006)
- [Physics - The Second Law of Thermodynamics | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/physics-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/index.html): A week ago I stretched my rudimentary knowledge of high school biology to come up with an analogy that, for me, shed some light on web services. Today, I (505 words, Jan 25, 2006)
- [Indeed Job Data | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/indeed-job-data/index.html): Since I am not in the market for a job, I haven't been spending enough time on Indeed.But since my post on their instant job board service, I have been (264 words, Jan 24, 2006)
- [Instant Job Board | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/instant-job-board/index.html): Our portfolio company Indeed.com is doing some great stuff.For those who are not familiar with Indeed, its a job search engine. Think Google for jobs.As (252 words, Jan 21, 2006)
- [Advertising Out Of Context | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/advertising-out-of-context/index.html): For as long as there has been advertising, the advertisers have sought to run the ads in context.By "in context", I mean car ads in the automotive (570 words, Jan 21, 2006)
- [Rich Media Realities | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/rich-media-realities/index.html): I wrote a post on my personal weblog several months ago called The Future of Media where I invited anyone to take my content (actually my RSS feed) and do (1,053 words, Jan 20, 2006)
- [Web Services in the Mist | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2006/01/web-services-in-the-mist/index.html): 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 (534 words, Jan 12, 2006)
- [A Delicious Eight Months | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/12/a-delicious-eight-months/index.html): 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!. (324 words, Dec 9, 2005)
- [Powered by... | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/powered-by/index.html): 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 (97 words, Nov 28, 2005)
- [Evolution vs. Intelligent Design | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/evolution-vs-intelligent-design/index.html): 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, (407 words, Nov 22, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Eight - Putting A String On Data | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-eight-putting-a-string-on-data.html): 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 (806 words, Nov 19, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Seven - Less Control Can Create More Value | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-seven-less-control-can-create-more-value.html): There was a lot of discussion about the relationship between web service providers and consumers. This relationship is obviously especially important in (377 words, Nov 15, 2005)
- [Our Customer Is The Entrepreneur | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/our-customer-is-the-entrepreneur/index.html): Many of the people we know in the venture capital business think their customers are the LPs (the investors in venture capital funds).We've always thought (790 words, Nov 12, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Six Reputations Are Not Portable | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-six-reputations-are-not-portable.html): There was a lot of talk at Sessions about trust. The word appears 33 times in the transcript. Jeff Jarvis mentioned it 11 times himself. Here, Jeff makes (385 words, Nov 9, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Five | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-five/index.html): One of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how (243 words, Nov 5, 2005)
- [Will Live Kill? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/will-live-kill/index.html): I posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other (355 words, Nov 4, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Four | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-four/index.html): Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion...Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created (471 words, Nov 3, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Three | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/11/sessions-top-ten-insights-three/index.html): Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week.Umair said: Herbert (557 words, Nov 2, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - Two | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/sessions-top-ten-insights-two/index.html): Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As (362 words, Oct 28, 2005)
- [Sessions Top Ten Insights - One | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/sessions-top-ten-insights-one/index.html): As we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these (114 words, Oct 27, 2005)
- [Seeking A Super Talented Product/Design Person | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/seeking-a-super-talented-product-design-person/index.html): One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform.The team that is (173 words, Oct 26, 2005)
- [We don't "get it" | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/we-dont-get-it/index.html): One of the first posts that came out of Sessions was Joel Spolsky’s comment on architecture astronauts.Joel said.I'm starting to see a new round of pure (491 words, Oct 24, 2005)
- [Peer Production in Action | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/peer-production-in-action/index.html): This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production.This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the (200 words, Oct 24, 2005)
- [Union Square Sessions 1 - Transcript | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/union-square-sessions-1-transcript/index.html): It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and (139 words, Oct 23, 2005)
- [Union Square Sessions 1 - Photos | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/union-square-sessions-1-photos/index.html): www.flickr.com (54 words, Oct 20, 2005)
- [Union Square Sessions 1 - Peer Production | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/union-square-sessions-1-peer-production/index.html): Today we hosted the first of what we hope will be many conversations about the impact of information technology on our society, our economy and on the (134 words, Oct 20, 2005)
- [Management Case, Base Case and Worst Case | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/management-case-base-case-and-worst-case/index.html): Early stage venture capital investing is not really a numbers oriented business.Its much more important to have a feel for technology, markets, and people (955 words, Oct 20, 2005)
- [Metrics | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/metrics/index.html): We like to make our initial investment sometime between the formation of a business and the first dollar of revenue coming in the door. Sometimes that (449 words, Oct 15, 2005)
- [Web Services are different | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/web-services-are-different/index.html): We are true believers in the potential of the web. Over the last year, we have seen a number of lightweight web services that could be the foundation for (328 words, Oct 13, 2005)
- [Hello World | Union Square Ventures](/content/2005/10/hello-world-php.html): Anyone who has been to our site before will notice a very different look and feel today. When we launched Union Square Ventures last year, we put up a web (161 words, Oct 12, 2005)
- [Founders | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/founders/index.html): I just finished John Battelle's The Search.It's a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in business, technology, marketing, and (492 words, Oct 11, 2005)
- [10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/10-steps-to-a-hugely-successful-web-2-0-company/index.html): Do you want to make money in your own home? Forget real estate scams, tupperware, or becoming a spammer. Create your own Web 2.0 company NOW!! Its easy. (1,023 words, Oct 11, 2005)
- [Audience Management | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/audience-management/index.html): What is Audience Management? It's the ability to track your audience and customers, know who they are, what they like, how they behave, etc. Done right, (434 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [del.icio.us | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/del-icio-us/index.html): I didn't plan on posting anything about Union Square Ventures' most recent investment, del.icio.us. The founder, Joshua Schachter, posted twice to his (968 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [Indeed | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/indeed/index.html): Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising our fund, we used to talk a lot about web services that should exist but don’t. One of Brad’s (1,526 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [Impact Media | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/impact-media/index.html): For the past 50 years, the media equation has most often been solved for the largest audience.That is changing and its happening pretty quickly, brought (877 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [Downturns | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/downturns/index.html): The morning paper this morning is not a pretty picture. New Orleans is flooded. Large swaths of the southeast are down and out. Energy prices are spiking. (519 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [Wikis | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/wikis/index.html): Some things take longer than others for me. I was quick to grok the blogging thing, reading them, writing them, etc. I was pretty quick to grok the (699 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [The Problem with Podcasts | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/the-problem-with-podcasts/index.html): I've talked about this before, but I want to say it again. The problem with podcasts is you can't link to a specific part of the podcast. You can link to (277 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [Location, Location, Location | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/location-location-location/index.html): Steve Shu's post on VC in different geographies got me thinking. Steve wrote it on July 28th, but it only showed up in technorati's link search this week (732 words, Oct 3, 2005)
- [A New Dimension? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/10/a-new-dimension/index.html): I feel in my gut that we need a new dimension, a new vector, a new lode to mine. And I feel that we are close to finding it. Note the conscious use of the (530 words, Oct 2, 2005)
- [Is Bill Gates the Cat with Nine Lives? | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/09/is-bill-gates-the-cat-with-nine-lives/index.html): Conventional wisdom says tech companies rise and fall with the waves of innovation that lash the shores of the technology business. There are so many (864 words, Sep 28, 2005)
- [Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures](/content/writing/2005/09/union-square-ventures/index.html): Often in our business you work on things for months and even years without being able to talk about them outside your immediate group of colleagues and (578 words, Sep 27, 2005)

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- [Tokens - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/tokens/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Tokens" from Union Square Ventures (107 words)
- [Investments - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/investments/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Investments" from Union Square Ventures (32 words)
- [Creativity - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/creativity/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Creativity" from Union Square Ventures (89 words)
- [Social - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/social/index.html): 2 posts tagged with "Social" from Union Square Ventures (130 words)
- [Music - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/music/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Music" from Union Square Ventures (88 words)
- [Gaming - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/gaming/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Gaming" from Union Square Ventures (103 words)
- [Portfolio - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/portfolio/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Portfolio" from Union Square Ventures (16 words)
- [Energy - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/energy/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Energy" from Union Square Ventures (96 words)
- [Consumer - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/consumer/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Consumer" from Union Square Ventures (96 words)
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- [Ev - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/ev/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Ev" from Union Square Ventures (117 words)
- [Seed - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/seed/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Seed" from Union Square Ventures (109 words)
- [Rebel - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/rebel/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Rebel" from Union Square Ventures (94 words)
- [Startups - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/startups/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Startups" from Union Square Ventures (95 words)
- [Vc - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/vc/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Vc" from Union Square Ventures (21 words)
- [Ai - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/ai/index.html): 8 posts tagged with "Ai" from Union Square Ventures (458 words)
- [Software - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/software/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Software" from Union Square Ventures (105 words)
- [Agents - Union Square Ventures](/content/blog/category/agents/index.html): 1 posts tagged with "Agents" from Union Square Ventures (109 words)

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