March 08, 2009
I tend not to write too much about Twitter these days. God knows enough gets written about it elsewhere. But we had such a great experience with Twitter at Hacking Education on Friday that I feel compelled to share it with everyone. Hacking Education was what we call a "Union Square Sessions" event....
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February 13, 2009
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 capital firms, Benchmark and IVP. Union Square Ventures will also invest to maintain our ownership position, as will Spark Capital and several ot...
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
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Fred
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January 29, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Why I follow Fred Wilson ! http://fredwilson.vc/ This article on http://disqus.com/ is written by Mr Wilson A master at Content Creation. Fred Wilson and Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ both have the ability to capsulize. capsulize - put in a short or concise form;...
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November 27, 2008
Image via Wikipedia I find this very interesting since I use Zemanta and Glue ! Mr Wilson and his group are helping promote what I call Apps for The Unwashed ! People Like me who at 72 years old don’t have time to get a degree from Cooper Union to manage a blog ! For the Folks In Silic...
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November 25, 2008
Fred Wilson watches television in a modern living room, but it probably isn’t quite like yours. Call it living room 2.0. As managing partner of Union Square Ventures—which invests in budding tech start-ups like Twitter, Tumblr and 10gen—he often brings the latest gadgets and social networking ...
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November 24, 2008
by Marissa Louie ZOMG Our angel and VC friends have done it again. They’d rather roast our insides than roast the turkey. Turn that portfolio company from turkey to turnkey. Joke’s on us, VC billionaires . Purchaze -1- Paul Kedrosky: Somali Pirates and TARP *PAULSON: TARP PIRATE EQUITY I...
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[Updated with new details about deal, including who worked on it and info on a cash component.] About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Whi...
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November 18, 2008
A week ago VC Cafe covered the alpha release of Israel and San Francisco based boxee. Today Boxee has announced a $4 million A round from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures to continue development of its social media center software. Boxee takes TV viewing online to the next level, by giving yo...
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Eze Vidra
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May 21, 2008
Last we heard about microblogging service Twitter's latest funding round, Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger told us — and, via Twitter, the world — that he was taking a lunch meeting at Twitter HQ. That was April 25. Despite rumors of an imminent deal, there's been no announcem...
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April 29, 2008
A tipster tells us Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin has a "$10 million Viacom offer floating around." Hype Machine, a website which aggregates music uploaded to blogs, has grown 125 percent in the last year, with 127,000 monthly visitors. Another source familiar with Volodkin's plans for Hype M...
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