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Partner, Union Square Ventures
I am a VC. I have been for 19 years. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but it...
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- The Teen Art Gallery
- The Green Button
- A Post PIPA Post
- The Management Team - While Building The Business
- Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model
- The Academy For Software Engineering
- Pseudonyms Drive Community
- Herky Jerky Investing
- The Management Team - While Building Product
- The Management Team While Building Product
- Profitable: To Be Or Not To Be?
- Mocked And Misunderstood
- Scaling The Management Team
- Where To Find Your Future Customers/Users
- Feature Friday: Mark Unread In Gmail
- SOPA/PIPA Update
- Lightweight Identity
- Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video
- Freedom To Innovate
- Sunday Debate: Is Social Peaking?
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Posted: Saturday 4 February 2012
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This is the kind of thing that happens in the age of the Internet and Kickstarter. My daughter Emily told me one of her friends was involved in opening an art gallery and they are using Kickstarter to raise the...
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Posted: Tuesday 24 January 2012
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This past Sunday afternoon I had the pleasure of being on the judges panel at the NYC Cleanweb Hackathon at NYU ITP. There were thirteen hacks presented to the judges. Of them, probably half had incorporated the "green button" for...
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Posted: Saturday 21 January 2012
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On my way from a breakfast meeting to the office yesterday I got a phone call on my cell phone with a 202 area code on it. I picked up the call and on the other end of the line...
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Posted: Monday 16 January 2012
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This is the third and final post on the subject of the management team. The final phase of company development I am going to cover is "building the business." Building the business largely means building the management team. They are...
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Posted: Sunday 15 January 2012
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The Gotham Gal has been under the weather this weekend. Last night we made soup for dinner and decided to sit on the couch and watch a movie and go to bed early. After dinner, we fired up Boxee and...
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Posted: Friday 13 January 2012
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A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google engineer told me to...
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Posted: Thursday 12 January 2012
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This will not be surprising to the AVC community but will certainly be a shock to the "real names" crowd. Disqus has shared some research they have done on three kinds of commenters; real names, pseudonyms, and anonymous commenters. Click...
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Posted: Thursday 5 January 2012
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The WSJ says some venture funds hit pause on big deals. The Journal describes a group of venture capitalists dialing back on certain deals after a breathless year of venture investing that had some comparing 2011 to the late 1990s...
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Posted: Monday 2 January 2012
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The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one...
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Posted: Monday 2 January 2012
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The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one...
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Posted: Wednesday 28 December 2011
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Mark Suster has a great post on this topic. In typical Mark fashion, it is long, with a lot of detail and substance. I highly recommend all entrepreneurs take the time to read it end to end. For those who...
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Posted: Tuesday 27 December 2011
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When people ask me, "how do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest successes?", I usually tell them to look for the companies and services that are mocked and misunderstood. For some reason, that correlates...
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Posted: Monday 26 December 2011
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My friend Bijan wrote a great post last week about the challenges a startup faces in scaling its team and building a management layer. His post inspired me to start a new series here on MBA Mondays about scaling a...
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Posted: Saturday 24 December 2011
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Our portfolio company Flurry is the leading provider of mobile analytics. They have analytics installed in over 140,000 mobile apps running worldwide. Through this global reach, they have a lot of data on how many iOS and Android devices are...
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Posted: Friday 23 December 2011
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This post will explain a lot about my disorganized organization system. I am not very organized. I am a brute force type. My desk is a mess. My computer is a mess. But I somehow power through things and get...
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Posted: Wednesday 21 December 2011
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Thanks to everyone in this community who has reached out to their elected officials on the SOPA/PIPA issue. It is hard to tell whether we are making a difference or not. But at least there are signs that Congress is...
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Posted: Tuesday 20 December 2011
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Last month, I participated in a PII event and sat on a panel (a format I dislike and try to avoid) moderated by Kara Swisher. Kara posted a video of the panel on ATD a few days later. Sometimes when...
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Posted: Sunday 18 December 2011
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Alex Ljung gave a talk at LeWeb 2011 in which he argued that sound will ultimately be bigger than video on the Internet. I am a big fan of contrarian thinking and argument and Alex does that very well in...
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Posted: Tuesday 13 December 2011
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For something like seventeen years, I have been investing in entrepreneurs who have had the freedom to innovate on the Internet. It has been a powerful life lesson for me. These people imagine something, they create it, and they are...
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Posted: Sunday 11 December 2011
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I spent the past couple hours watching videos from Le Web in our family room. I love to queue up videos from the prior week and spend sunday morning watching them on the couch instead of sitting at my desk....
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