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- New York, NY, 10010
- Birthday:
- August 20, 1961
We've been doing our Union Square Sessions events for almost as long as our firm has been around. We pick a topic, like Hacking Eduction, that interests us and we invite about forty people to sit around a big open table and talk about the issue for four to five hours. There are no presentations...
I use a lot of music web services but I don't like to invest in this sector. Nonetheless, it's an area that I spend a lot of time thinking about...
Dec 7th is "a day that will live in infamy" as FDR famously stated about Pearl Harbor day...
Our portfolio company Covestor is looking for a VP Product and a head of marketing. Both positions are in New York City. Covestor has created an entirely new form of investment product - people powered investing. With Covestor you don't buy stocks and you don't buy funds...
I saw this tweet from Charlie O'Donnell yesterday:LinkedIn pulled avatars of @laughingsquid @fredwilson @hunterwalk and me down. Isn't our "professionalism" for our networks to judge?It's true. Here's my LinkedIn profile this morning:My avatar is gone, taken down.That's unfortunate...
I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too. They were live streaming the event...
I saw this tweet when I got up this morning:hey @fredwilson - whats the story behind ur avatar? While longtime readers know it, I figure many of you don't. So here it goes....
I generally take a quick run through audience stats every morning...
I was explaining how I go about finding deals yesterday to a friend of mine and I thought I ought to explain it to everyone.I write this blog...
After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business of APIs conference...
Back in the early days of web video, it wasn't clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video. I tried all of them...
On Friday I posted some of the key themes I'll be addressing tomorrow in my keynote. I spent this morning assembling them into a deck that I'll use in my talk tomorrow. Here's a final draft...
When my son Josh got Tweetie on his iPhone, he simply went to Twitter.com and found every NBA player he could think of, found out if they had a verified account, and if they did, he followed them...
I'm giving the keynote talk at the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC on Monday. I've been working on my presentation over the past few days and some themes are worth talking about.1) Since we started Union Square Ventures in 2003/2004, we have only been involved with one retained search...
I posted about our portfolio company Tracked.com a few weeks ago. In that post, I said:Tracked.com is social. Users have a profile in the service and can send messages to each other in the service (and via twitter and facebook very shortly)...
