Union Square Ventures

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• Etsy Founder Rob Kalin Takes Back CEO Role

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 776
  New/old Etsy CEO Rob Kalin with departing CEO Maria Thomas Etsy co-founder Rob Kalin will become CEO of the online craft-selling site, replacing Maria Thomas, who’d joined the company from NPR last year. At the time, Kalin left the CEO spot and became chief creative officer. In a corporate blog post , Kalin ...
  19 hours ago

• Zyngas Mark Pincus Talks About Big Funding, "Offer Ad" Controversies and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 692
  Just days after selling $180 million in private stock to a group of investors, including Facebook funder Digital Sky Technologies of Russia, Zynga’s Mark Pincus came to visit the BoomTown Worldwide HQ for a video interview. The San Franisco-based Zynga creates and distributes online games, including Mafia Wars and ...
  4 days ago

• Seedsummit - network for active seed investors

  
  localglo.be — Authority: 433
  Tomorrow morning were bringing together around 60 folks like Jeff Clavier, Martin Varsavsky, Brent Hoberman, Lukasz Gadowski, Stefan Glaenzer, Dave McClure, Andy Philips, William Reeve , Robin Klein, Jyri Engestrom and Sherry Coutu for the first edition of Seedsummit. Seedsummit is ...
  1 week ago

• Another Start-Up Wants to Democratize Investing

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  On Covestor, people can follow both professional and amateur investors and mimic their trades.
  1 week ago

• Another Start-Up Wants to Democratize Investing

  
  Bits — Authority: 772
  Generally, when people look for money managers to help them invest their savings, they are limited to hiring people who do that professionally. But there are many people who invest as a hobby, and some of them are quite good. A start-up called Covestor is making it possible for people to use them as money managers ...
  1 week ago

• CNN Backs Outside.in and Gets Share of Company

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 560
  As part of a $7 million series B funding round, Time Warners CNN will be getting a share of Outside.in, a hyper-local news site based in Brooklyn.  CNN will begin featuring feeds from Outside.in on its Web site starting in early 2010. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and included previous backers ...
  1 week ago

• Outside.in Nabs $7 Million for Hyperlocal News, Ad Platform

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 548
  Brooklyn,N.Y. - Outside.in, an onlineaggregator of hyperlocal news content, announced on Tuesday that it has raised$7 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by UnionSquare Ventures. read more
  1 week ago

• CNN invests in hyperlocal news startup Outside.in [Update: Did CNN Invest 5 Million Of The 7?]

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 749
  Time Warner’s CNN has invested in New York-based information aggregator. As part of a $7 million funding round, the WSJ reports that CNN is getting a stake in the NY based startup. What percentage of the funding round is CNN’s is not yet known. Primary funding came from from a series of angels as well as a few ...
  2 weeks ago

• NY Tech Startups Experiment with Media

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 560
  In response to The New York Times David Carr s recent article, "The Rise and Fall of Media," The Deal s Mary Kathleen Flynn notes a few of the New York tech startups whose experimentation with media "intrigues" her, including: The Deal itself, which offers a "slew of digital products," such as s twice-daily ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the Venture Business, Small Is Beautiful, Charles River Ventures Argues—And Funds Are About to Get Much Smaller

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  VC , investing , startups Wade Roush wrote: The average return on venture capital investments for the year ending June 30, 2009, was -17 percent, according to figures released by the National Venture Capital Association in October. The 3-year return was +1.3 percent, the 5-year return was +5.7 percent, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Give a Presentation or have a Discussion?

  
  Tom Altmans Wedia Conversation — Authority: 427
  As I prepare for a couple of internal presentations I’m giving at work I stumbled across this post from Fred Wilson called “ Presentations vs Discussions ” A presentation is like a TV show. It’s a lean back experience. A discussion is like an online chat room. It is a lean forward experience. They are not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Social-Media Service ‘Foursquare’ Expected to Break Out in 2010

  
  Hiring the Internet — Authority: 112
  According to Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of tech blog “Mashable” and a frequent contributor to CNN.com, Foursquare – an up-and-coming social-media service – is poised to make its grand debut next year. Whereas Twitter dominated the tech headlines in 2009 – a rise to prominence that we’ve document ...
  4 weeks ago

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