USV hosted a hackathon of Facebook developers tonight. There wasn’t too much hacking going on (could be because we went through so much beer I had to make a second trip to the store in the middle of the event). But, there was a lot of incredibly intelligent discussion about the pros and [...]

Union Square Ventures hosted Matt Flannery of Kiva.org two nights ago. Kiva is a website that enables anyone online to engage in microfinancing of individuals in third-world countries.
Microfinance is obviously a hot topic in the wake of Dr. Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize for work on microfinance. It was a [...]