Managing Al, Brad, Fred: An Opportunity To Jump For

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"I am interested in understanding why you chose the title General Manager. It does not seem that you need one person to manage the small and largely self-motivated team." 

Union Square Ventures: We Are Hiring "we have envisioned an Investment Analyst and a General Manager of the Union Square Ventures Network"

Albert Wenger, Brad Burnham (@BradUSV) (Tumblr), Fred Wilson.

Fred Wilson: Talent Overload

Fred Wilson and USV first put out a post weeks back saying Farewell Andrew Parker, or something along those lines. And someone commented, in all earnesty, who died? He did not say who died, he said I came over here huffing and puffing hoping noone had died or anything like that. Oh no, Andrew is thankfully alive and well, Fred had to respond.

And now this even more earnest comment on the management position. These two comments have so far stood out as the hiring process rolls on at USV.

Albert Wenger
Brad Burnham
Fred Wilson

Andrew Parker
Dorsey Stinson
Eric Friedman

USV Investments

1. 10gen
2. Adaptive Blue
3. AMEE
4. Boxee
5. Bug Labs
6. Clickable
7. Covestor
8. Disqus
9. Etsy
10. Foursquare
11. Heyzap
12. Indeed
13. InfoNgen
14. Meetup
15. Oddcast
16. Outside.in
17. Pinch Media
18. Return Path
19. Simulmedia
20. Targetspot
21. Tracked
22. Tumblr
23. Twitter
24. Wesabe
25. Zemanta
26. Zynga

• Delicious
• Feedburner
• Tacoda

The USV Focus

• The Mobile Challenge
  
• Why We Don't Invest In Competitive Businesses
  
• Founders and Management
  
• Geography
  
• Deal Size
  
• Lead Investor
  
• Traction
  
• Early Stage Investing
  
• Scalability
  
• Defensibility
  
• Information Technology Leverage
  
• Potential to change the structure of markets
  
• Our Focus

Union Square Ventures Job Opening: I Am Applying

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Real Time Is Real Time, Today Or Last Year

Image via CrunchBase

Time 1937: Richest man In The World.

Look at this article from Time 1937. The richest man in the world at the time was an Indian. Hello Bill Gates. It was empowering to get to read the article in the raw. I think this is the model I have in mind when it comes to Twitter. What is being said right now in real time is important. But the Twitter archives are also important.

And finally I got it.

I knew Google needed to step in.

Facebook And Twitter Suck When It Comes To Searching Their Own Sites
Twitter Should Hand Over Search To Google

Mashable: Google Upgrades Its Twitter Search Features
Google Blog: Replay It: Google Search Across The Twitter Archive
CNet: Google Launches Twitter Timeline Search

This is not Twitter giving the farm away. This is Twitter bringing in Google to enhance the value of every single tweet. Suddenly every tweet in the Twitter archive has become worth so much more. This is a huge boost to Twitter's monetization efforts. (Twitter Does The Deed: Ads)

Being able to search every tweet ever is great. But there is one missing link: visualization. Tweets are not meant to be read one at a time. And visualization is perhaps the best way to read many tweets at once. Google has work cut out for it in the presentation department. Searching through tweets is not the same as searching through webpages. Tweets are a different animal.

Twitter Visualization: Reading Many Tweets At Once

What I say today about Obama's victory in November 2008 is a different animal from what I said about Obama's victory as it happened. It is still me saying it, but real time is a different dimension.

This ability to dig through the Twitter archives is going to be a great tool for many players to go out there and see what people are saying about them, or how what they have been saying has changed over time.

Right now the archives go back only to February. It has to go all the way back. And Google has not even started work on doing the best possible job on presentation. Don't treat tweets like they are webpages. They are not.

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