Archive for September, 2008

Reversing The Flow Of Innovation

My partner Brad has a good post up on the Union Square Ventures blog this morning. He’s been thinking about why a lot of the innovation in information technology is happening in consumer facing web services. He notes that: In…

Reversing The Flow Of Innovation

My partner Brad has a good post up on the Union Square Ventures blog this morning. He’s been thinking about why a lot of the innovation in information technology is happening in consumer facing web services. He notes that: In…

We Need Price Transparency In The Splurge

I got caught up last night and this morning on the splurge legislation. My favorite summary was from Henry on Clusterstock. In that post, Henry wrote: The Treasury has complete discretion over the prices it pays for crap assets (the…

We Need Price Transparency In The Splurge

I got caught up last night and this morning on the splurge legislation. My favorite summary was from Henry on Clusterstock. In that post, Henry wrote: The Treasury has complete discretion over the prices it pays for crap assets (the…

Etsy: An Affordable Holiday Gift Option

This may come off as a shameless plug for one of our portfolio companies but I hope not because it isn’t intended as such. With the tough economic times we find ourselves in, many people will be tightening the hatches…

Women on the verge

The topic of women with executive experience seems to be on a lot of minds lately, so we thought we would share some of the latest numbers on how the Washington region ranks in that area.

UMB, GBC eye new $25M fund to fuel tech, bio

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the Greater Baltimore Committee plan to create a $25 million fund to help churn more technology and bioscience research out of Maryland universities.

Women and minorities still struggling to capture capital

Marian Sabety was a pioneer in social networks, developing internet technologies for interpersonal interaction back when Facebook was “still a Harvard student skunk works,” she said.

Group for deal makers starts Kentucky chapter

The Association for Corporate Growth, a national organization for executives in private investment, finance, or mergers and acquisitions, is starting a Kentucky chapter.

A Feature Request For Facebook

I use Facebook a bit, but I use Twitter more. It’s surely because of our investment in Twitter. But it was like that before our investment in Twitter. It could be because the people I connect to most often are…