Feed: Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing - AggScore: 65.7

What comes next

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Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven't seen in years. Their success hasn't gone unnoticed, and the pace of tech-company creation has...

Help Protect Internet Innovation

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We have previously written about why the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is bad for innovation. The same is true of the House version of this bill which is called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In fact, SOPA goes beyond...

Codecademy

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A few weeks back, Ryan Bubinski, who co-founded Codecademy with Zach Sims, said to me that he thought learning how to code should be a fundamental skill on par with learning how to read or write or do arithmetic....

Codecademy

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Codecademy was created out of the frustrations Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski felt with learning how to program. Tired with less effective text and video resources, Ryan and Zach teamed up to create Codecademy, a better, more interactive way to...

DuckDuckGo

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DuckDuckGo is a general purpose search engine that is intended to be your starting place when searching the Internet. DuckDuckGo was solo-founded by Gabriel Weinberg in February 2008 and is based out of Valley Forge, PA (USA)....

Analyst hiring update #2

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A few weeks ago, we announced we're looking for someone to join the USV team as an analyst. We accepted applications for two weeks, until October 14, using Take The Interview. We hoped 14 days was enough time for potential...

My Back Pages

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For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I'm excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined...

Duck Duck Go

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When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line "sure it's cool but what the heck do...

Analyst hiring update

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A reminder we're closing applications for the investment analyst position at 6pm Eastern time Thursday, Oct. 13. After applications close, we'll review each one before beginning to reach out and schedule meetings. We will respond to all who apply. We're...

We're hiring

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Union Square Ventures has a long history - in internet time at least - of hiring off this blog (posts here, here, and here.) A fundamental assumption of the way we've hired is that we're able to get to know...

turntable

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turntable lets you play music together with your friends and other people online. Each DJ takes a turn playing a song and the entire virtual room hears the song. You can vote on whether the song is awesome or lame...

Turntable

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Sometimes you end up loving something you don't want to. When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login button that I didn't want to use. There was another music service I didn't want to add...

Wattpad

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Wattpad is the best place to discover and share stories. On Wattpad you'll discover a new form of entertainment where you can interact and share stories across text, video, images and through conversations with other readers and writers. Wattpad stories...

Wattpad

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Stories have been with us probably as long as language has, and the need for stories appears deeply rooted in all of us. We have come a long way from quite literally sitting around a fire to sophisticated technologies such...

Jig - When You Need A Little Help

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When we first announced our investment in what was then called Tasty Labs we provided no indication as to what the team was building. That's because they were just getting going on a problem that Joshua had been thinking about...