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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. Starting about four years ago, Howard...

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. It's like a broadcast channel of "what is interesting to me."...

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. YouTube was...

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. Please let me know...

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...

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...

I don't like to go to conferences. I explained why in this post. But every once in a while I do attend one. Ideally it's a smallish gathering on a specific topic that I am interested in. I'm doing that...

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...

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. It still has a few kinks to get out, but it is mostly there. When Brad...

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...

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. As my friend Mark Pincus likes...

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...

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...

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...

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...