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Losing Jason
Brad Burnham – May 23, 2008
Jason Knight stepped down from his role as the CEO of Wesabe yesterday in order to devote his full attention to a medical situation in his family. Chairman and co-founder Marc Hedlund, who previously served as the company’s chief product [...] Read more
Wesabe Steps Out
Brad Burnham – Apr 24, 2008
Over a year ago when we first started thinking about personal financial management tools on the web, I had this OMG moment when I realized that a web based personal financial management service was going to be way more disruptive [...] Read more
AB Meta
Brad Burnham – Apr 21, 2008
Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, stocks, and wines on the web. By using semantic analysis to figure out the difference between The [...] Read more
This is Nuts
Brad Burnham – Apr 10, 2008
Yesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The latest problem is the Census Bureau’s failure— after nearly four years and [...] Read more
New Fund – Same Focus
Brad Burnham – Mar 5, 2008
We closed on Union Square Ventures 2008 LP last week. Our new fund, at $156mm in capital ments, is large enough for us to be able to act on our conviction and to support our portfolio, but small enough to [...] Read more
Google’s Data Asset
Brad Burnham – Dec 21, 2007
Tim O’Reilly has been saying for several years that data is the Intel Inside of web services. I am not sure the analogy is completely accurate. The microprocessor plays a different role in a personal computer than data does in [...] Read more
Markets and Philanthropy
Brad Burnham – Oct 22, 2007
It has been three weeks since we hosted a group of technologists and philanthropists to talk about the impact of technology on philanthropy. I have now had a chance to go back through the transcript and to reflect on some [...] Read more
Hacking Philanthropy – The Transcript
Brad Burnham – Oct 5, 2007
Here is the transcript for the Hacking Philanthropy Sessions event. It was a tough assignment for the transcriptionist. It was a large room where 40 high powered people were firing ideas back and forth without microphones. So despite a heroic [...] Read more
There Are No Open Web Services
Brad Burnham – Sep 18, 2007
Let's start with a definition. A service is open when anyone can take anything (code, data, etc) from that service and do anything they want with it, without permission from anyone.You might argue that is an extreme definition. I'd agree. [...] Read more