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A New Kind of Venture Capitalist, Union Square Ventures, Makes Small Bets on Young Firms

Union Square Ventures http://www.unionsquareventures.com/ has built its portfolio making small bets on young companies.

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/technology/22venture.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Power to the People

We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic picture. We do the same for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day off to discuss how we think the web itself is changing, how the web is changing industries and society, and as a result how opportunities for startups are changing. One of the best ways we have found to think about change is to identify those principles that appear to drive the change and that themselves can provide a bit of a constant. In other words to understand what’s changing, you need to understand what is staying the same.

By Albert Wenger

Full Blog: http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/09/power_to_the_pe_1.html

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