My colleague and friend Andrew Parker did a great visualization mapping startups over Craigslist categories they competes in. You should click through and read his thoughts. First, it is incredible that around 30 companies are actively attacking these categories, whether directly or indirectly, on Craigslist – more if you dig deeper and include competitors within …
Tags: Add new tag, Andrew Parker, Union Square VenturesI was very happy earlier this week to launch an updated version of the Union Square Ventures website. The site was designed by Phoebe Espiritu who did a great job working with our team and iterating on our design direction and brainstorms. We ended up with a very clean design with a few dynamic features …
Tags: Magnify, Movable Type, Union Square VenturesOne of the most powerful things I have learned over the past year is the immense amount of data that comes out of using a computer system, specifically some form an online web based experience. At Union Square Ventures, we refer to this as data exhaust, or sometimes called digital exhaust, because it is the …
Tags: Data Exhaust, Union Square Ventures, Web serviceMy friend Lee Jones and I started Marketing.fm in March of 2006, which feels like a decade ago. Since then a lot has happened and since I missed providing a 3 year birthday update this year I thought a post was due. If you want to catch up on previous milestones see Year 1 and …
Tags: Reprise Media, Union Square Ventures, ValueClickI was lucky enough to join the conversation today at an event called Hacking Education put on by our team at Union Square Ventures. It was a great day overall and we had a great group of attendees who are now all invited to continue the conversation on the Hacking Education open wiki Some highlights …
Tags: Education, Union Square Ventures