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Building The Ecosystem
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I've always seen the work that my colleauges and I do as more than venture capital investing. That is our main job and we need to do it very well. But we also need to work to make sure the macro environment for our investing activities remains attractive. There are...
Flipboard teams up with Apple to launch new iBookstore-powered "Books" section in its iOS apps
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Expanding upon what is now surely one of the most important roles of Flipboard, commerce, the magazine-like app has partnered with Apple (yes, Apple) to launch a slightly surprising new section: “Books.” Flipboard’s Books category, only available for iPad and iPhone users, is packed with books you can buy from the...
Opening Up Our Research
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When Brad Burnham and I started USV back in 2003 and I had just started blogging, we spent a lot of time talking to potential investors in our first fund. One of their big questions we got from them about the kind of open firm we wanted to create was...
Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: women in tech and media speak out
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We needed more than just one perspective to understand how women are making sense of Sheryl Sandberg's advice in Lean In. So we asked a group of women at all different stages of their careers to tell us what they thinkNow that Lean In has hit stores, women and men...
Flipboard adds Books section integrated with iBookstore
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Social news app Flipboard already aims to help users discover new web content. Now the company is branching out to book discovery. On Thursday, Flipboard added a new Books section to its iOS apps in partnership with Apple’s iBookstore. Users can browse for books in 25 categories and then link...
6 Things to Know Before You Accept Another Privacy Policy
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You know you’re supposed to, but if you’re like most people, you probably have never read the user agreement, privacy policy or service terms when signing up for an online service, including a social network. And why would you? As we reported last week, the documents are dense (Facebook's took,...
Dropbox offers pro users twice the space as competition heats up
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Dropbox pro subscribers can now get excited about twice as much storage space on their accounts for no additional cost, as the company plans to announce Tuesday that it will double the storage space it offers to paid subscribers. The decision comes as other companies are offering more competitively priced cloud storage...
A VC opens up: Union Square Ventures starts sharing internal market research publicly
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Here’s an interesting move: New York City-based Union Square Ventures (USV), an investor in a few companies you might have heard of (Boxee, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Meetup, Kickstarter and Twilio, among others), has decided to share the market and industry research it conducts internally with anyone. In a blog post,...
A Talk I Gave On Blogging
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I was invited to talk to Gary and Christina's SVA Class a month or so ago. They asked me to talk about writing/blogging because one of the requirements for their class is that the students have to write and blog regularly. They are blogging the entire class and here is...
The Nature Of The Firm and Work Markets
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Those who watched the video I posted on Sunday saw me talking about this. But I didn't do it justice so I'm going to do a full post on this. The brilliant Nobel prize winning economist Ronald Coase (who is still alive!) wrote a seminal essay called The Nature Of...
eBay Unveils A Pinterest-Inspired Redesign And Launches eBay Now, A Same Day Delivery Service
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At today’s New York press event, eBay set the bar high by stating that it would unveil “the new eBay” today. The company introduced eBay Now, the same day delivery service they have been testing, a completely redesigned website with a better search experience and item pages. It looks a...
Whither usv.com?
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Back in 2004, when my partner Brad and I started Union Square Ventures (USV), we decided to make our website a blog. It took us a year to do a final close on our first fund, so when we had finally finished the marketing period for that first fund, we...
Why It's Mathematically Impossible To Avoid Infringing On Software Patents
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In 2008 James Bessen and Michael Meurer came out with a truly excellent book, Patent Failure. It's chock full of excellent information and a pretty wide survey of the research showing just how much patents harm innovation. While I don't necessarily agree with the "solutions" proposed, the key thesis of...
The Social Networking Patent Thicket Consists Of At Least 30,000 Patents
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M-CAM's analysis of the Yahoo/Facebook patent nuclear war has some interesting points. It's worth checking out the full thing, but I wanted to call attention to two them. First, in showing just how ridiculous the patent situation is in the social networking space, M-CAM looks just at the 10 patents...
Apple announces 200M iTunes in the Cloud users
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At today’s iPhone event, Apple announced that there were now some 200M iTunes in the Cloud users. That’s the service that Apple offers to people to play and download their purchased items wherever they are directly from its cloud. As of the July quarter, Apple has some 150M iCloud users,...
Not just for Facebook, Bandpage helps musicians reach fans across the web
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Bandpage, a platform for musicians to connect with fans and promote their music on Facebook, has extended its reach to the broader web. Now, with a new product known as “Bandpage Everywhere,” musicians can build a website, and update their Facebook, Tumblr, blog and other promotional sites, in just...
Three Reasons Why Retention Is The 'Biggest Problem In Mobile'
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Retaining users on mobile apps is no easy feat. Christina Cordova, who works in business development for mobile payments startup Stripe, said last month that user retention is "the biggest problem in mobile." She noted how mobile-only apps that initially gained a lot of traction, like Path, Viddy, and Draw...
Crowdfunding will streamline aid for victims of Sandy and future disasters
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Hurricane Sandy has had an astonishing impact on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Dozens are dead. New York officials estimate that up to 40,000 people were left homeless by the storm. The FEMA trailers made famous in the wake of Hurricane Katrina could be on their way...
Oh look, another marketplace for used clothing. Here's why Forewillow is different
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Good god there are a lot of people trying to disrupt Craigslist. But not many of them have succeeded in building what’s beginning to seem impossible — a liquid online marketplace. Structuring one to serve the needs of both buyers and sellers is a very careful, tricky process. Marketplaces...
Facebook, Shmacebook Says Fiesty Mobile Ad Startup JumpTap
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Earlier today, we reported that Facebook now allows advertisers to target users based on things those users have done offline, including things like buying toothpaste or going to a movie. We said this was a big step for Facebook. Christina Feeney, who does marketing for mobile ad network JumpTap agrees...
Altairs, Altos and Ataris, oh my: Allen's Living Computer Museum opens to public
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Paul Allen was at the forefront of the personal computer revolution, co-founding Microsoft with his buddy Bill Gates in 1975. And while it has been years since Allen wrote code for the company that made him a billionaire, he’s never lost his love affair with computers. And there’s probably no better...
Apple Wins A Patent For Rounded Corners (AAPL)
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Apple has been granted a design patent for the rounded edges to the rectangular screen of the iPad, Matt Macari at The Verge reports. Apple owns patent D670,286, which is "The ornamental design for a portable display device." That means it really does just cover the rounded edges of the...
Monopolies and Startups
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Christina wrote a post yesterday that got me thinking. It's not quite like working together but when a former colleague blogs, you get a bit of that "in the halls" thing that makes working in a group so great. Fortunately, Charlie, Andrew, and Eric all blog too. Christina makes this...
Eddy Cue Worked to Convince Steve Jobs of Need for 7-Inch iPad in Early 2011
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Back in October 2010, Steve Jobs appeared on an Apple earnings conference call to address the Android-based iPad competitors that were just then coming to the market. With the majority of those tablets carrying 7-inch displays, Jobs noted that the screens were only 45% as large as the iPad's and...
Project Magenta aims to create open-source iOS clone
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Developer Christina B is working to recreate iPhone OS 1 for generic hardware with Project Magenta: a port of Apple's open-source Darwin operating system. Darwin is the foundation for iOS, and Christina plans on developing a clone of Apple's mobile platform using open-source alternatives to its proprietary stack. The...
This Flaw In Facebook Lets You Create As Many Fake Likes As You Want (FB)
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Yesterday we told you that Facebook quietly scans your messages, searching for URLs that you've sent to your friends. When it sees one, it increases the number of Facebook Likes on that URL. The business media -- Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Gizmodo -- have portrayed this as a privacy...
VIDEO: What you can and can't say on twitter
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Media barrister Christina Michalos and the journalist and media law consultant David Banks discuss the pitfalls and the power of social networking sites....
Oink's export tool lets you grab data from any user, provided you know their username
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The relatively new Oink ratings app shut down earlier this week, but there's one last parting gift from Milk founder Kevin Rose as he heads to Google: Oink's export tool reportedly allows you to grab the data of anyone who used the service, provided you know their username. Upon...
Internal email shows Apple's Eddy Cue wanted 7″ iPad in January of 2011
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An internal email that surfaced at the ongoing Samsung v. Apple trial shows that Apple’s Eddy Cue, its Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services felt that there would be a market for a smaller iPad. According to Tweets from Wired’s Christina Bonnington, CNBC’s Jon Fortt and CNN’s Heather...
Ad-tech firm Marin Software's shares rise 26% in IPO
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Ad-tech startup Marin Software made its public debut this morning on the NYSE, netting a higher than expected price in early trading. The company, which will trade under the symbol MRIN, sold 7.5 million shares at $14. It was initially expected to sell 7 million shares in the $11...
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