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Saul Klein, co-founder of Seedcamp and one of the top VCs in europe, has a long and thoughtful post up on the evolution of Seedcamp. In it he says:In my mind, helping to bring some cohesion to our region's distributed network of talent, capital and is a 15-20 year project. ........
Taking a cue from the advice we give to companies all the time, we've just launched the new USV.com in beta form last night...
Almost 750 people took the AVC Reader Census/Survey in the past 24 hours. That's a decent sample size. So if you want to know what the readership of this blog looks like, go here. I'm sorry to say that it is overwhelmingly male, 92% of the respondents are men...
We (Nathan and me) added a new widget to this blog yesterday. It's on the right sidebar above the Flickr photo widget. The purpose of this widget is to answer a few questions about the people who read this blog. If you wish, you can take the survey right here on this post...
One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation...
About a hundred readers of this blog gathered last night in the cafeteria of Washington Irving High School just off of Union Square in Manhattan to meet each other and celebrate the generosity of this community in the recent Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge. It was a great moment for me...
I drove out to the middle of New Jersey yesterday morning to attend a board meeting. Everywhere I went, I saw "dump corzine" messages. It was clear the governor was in trouble...
I'm sure everyone out there gets email intros. Someone who knows you sends you and someone you don't know an email suggesting you meet.I send emails like that a lot. I might send a half a dozen or more every day.I get even more emails like that...
As the venture business has grown and matured, many firms have developed specific areas of focus. Our firm, Union Square Ventures, for example only invests in web services. I believe this is a good thing for both the investors in venture funds, called LPs, and the entrepreneurs...
We did it, for the third year in a row, this blog has won the tech blog category of the donors choose blogger challenge. Most importantly, we raised a total of $37,504 for teachers' projects in public schools. That number includes a $19,680 match from HP...
My partner Albert said this a week or two ago on his blog:When people ask me whether investing in web services is a long-term opportunity, I often say that “we ain’t seen nothing yet.” I was reminded of that when I went to the web to find a hotel to stay in Miami when I am down there for Futur...
Last friday my partner Brad attended a company offsite for our portfolio company Meetup.com. On monday of this week during our regular weekly meeting, he gave our firm (all five of us) a report on the day which he said was excellent...
I read the Google blog post announcing their enhancements to music searches this morning...
There has been a lot of talk about young entrepreneurs creating all the great companies; Gates, Jobs, Yang/Filo, Bezos, Dell, Brin/Page, Zuckerberg, etc, etc.I agree that visionary young people are worth backing and we do a lot of that at Union Square Ventures.But there is another kind of...
I was having breakfast at Pastis with a friend today. The "mayor" of that restaurant, Mark Ghuneim, walks in and goes to the bar to order his morning coffee to go. I said to my friend, "watch this, he's going to pull out his phone and then look up and and try to locate me in this restaurant"...
