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Advisors can be an important part of any startup as they build their service, make decisions, and decide what to focus their time and energy on. Image from Shutterstock One thing to mention before getting into this post is that folks I spoke with about their advisors were generally split down the middle; sometimes they [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! I just finished watching the Thanksgiving day parade which never gets old. Today marks an important time to reflect on everything you have to be thankful for and I certainly wanted to take the time. To my wonderful family and friends which make up an amazing support system, to the new friends I [...]

Steve Blank spoke to a group of entrepreneurs On November 12th 2009, about the Customer Development Process and running a lean startup. It was a great night with great questions throughout – I hope it do it again the next time Steve is in town. We hope to do something similar to this in the [...]

Image by digitaltree515 via Flickr Last week I hosted a group of NYC entrepreneurs who came out to hear from Steve Blank. It was a great event and I am working on getting the video online. During the night Steve asked the audience a great question; “when did Google launch?” It was met with blank [...]

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Image via CrunchBase When consulting with companies about “how their website is doing” one of the first things people checkout is the Google PR or Page Rank of the site. To check the PR of your site officially you have to install the Google browser tool bar which will show you a small green bar [...]

I 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 [...]

I started using the Motorola Droid on Friday and have been using it as my primary device all weekend. In a sense this is a comparison against other phones out there, but primarily against the Blackberry as that is what I have been most satisfied with to date – specifically the Blackberry 8900 with T-Mobile. [...]

Image via CrunchBase The amount of services I use through Google is now summed up in a simple dashboard showing everything. They sum it up as transparency, choice, and control which is a nice way of softening the realization of how much data Google actually collects about you. Here are the services they list and [...]

One 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 [...]