| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.11.2020 | Hard Tech, Hard Jobs: An Expert In Workforce Dynamics Decodes Current And Future States Of Work | Jeff WaldMichael George |
| 19.10.2020 | This Is How To Be A Fortune-Teller About The Future Of Work | Predicting the future of labor is not hocus-pocus.Photo by Tim Savage from Pexels |
| 22.01.2018 | ADP Acquires WorkMarket | ADP announced this morning that they have acquired our portfolio company WorkMarket.
This is a bittersweet moment for me.
WorkMarket has been a big part of my personal portfolio for almost eight years.
USV and Spark seeded WorkMarket in Jun... |
| 10.08.2017 | Work Market Acquires Onforce | Our portfolio company Work Market announced today that they have acquired their competitor OnForce from its owner, The Adecco Group.
This combination makes Work Market the undisputed work automation leader in IT services sector, where both ... |
| 27.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 27 | PETER PAN NEVER HAD TO GROW UP
The following article is from Fortune’s latest issue.
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They’re so exuberant, one VC even declared on CNBC that this year “could be one... |
| 26.04.2017 | WorkMarket Raises $25M in Venture Capital Funding | WorkMarket Inc., a NYC-based freelancer-management startup, raised $25m in funding.
Backers included Accenture PLC and Foundry Group.
The company will use the capital to continue to expand operations.
Co-founded in 2010 by Jeffrey Leventhal... |
| 16.04.2017 | Look to Toronto, not India, for tech talent | Throughout the ’90s, software development executives have considered offshore development as part of their cost management strategy to keep spending down. They did this by outsourcing many functions and projects to Ukraine, India, Mexico, C... |
| 16.04.2017 | Look to Toronto, not India, for tech talent | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Throughout the ’90s, software development executi... |
| 08.02.2017 | The Future Of Labor | As I mentioned yesterday, I am moderating a panel this morning at NewCo Shift Forum on The Future Of Labor.
As I think about, there are three big megatrends impacting the future of labor/work.
The first has largely played itself out over th... |
| 17.11.2016 | Labor Clouds and Being Your Own Enterprise | My friend John Battelle published an interview with our portfolio company Work Market‘s CEO Stephen DeWitt yesterday.
There are a couple interesting ideas that are explained in that interview:
Labor clouds. It turns out that John’s new comp... |
| 15.11.2016 | Boldstart Ventures locks down $47 million for fund three | Boldstart Ventures started off with $1 million in 2010 as a kind of experiment. Could a New York-based outfit find enough seed-stage, enterprise-focused, East Coast opportunities to rationalize a bigger fund?
The answer, seemingly, is yes. ... |
| 04.11.2016 | What Profitable Lifestyle Business Can You Start Online ? | Share
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A lifestyle business is one that is geared toward supporting the owner’s income and personal requirements rather than maximizing revenue. The goal of a lifestyle business is to create a sustainable, pleasant wo... |
| 03.11.2016 | How To Start An Advertising Business Online. | Share
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The success of any business depends on the effectiveness of their marketing strategies whether small or large. This shows why marketing is considered the backbone of any business and why marketers are in high d... |
| 16.12.2015 | The Missing Leak In Marketplaces | Amol Sarva Contributor
Amol Sarva is a co-founder of Knotable.
Jeff Wald Contributor
Jeff Wald is a co-founder of Work Market and Spinback.
Here’s the rap on marketplaces where buyers meet sellers: Some of them leak revenue. Unicorns are lo... |
| 07.10.2015 | For Entrepreneur360 'Data Champions,' Success Is Steady, Plotted and Planned | October 7, 2015 3 min read
Through surveys and available data, we've examined hundreds of small businesses and come away with six archetypal sets of practices and characteristics that we believe are representative of most growth companies o... |
| 02.06.2015 | The Freelance Economy | I was on the phone last night with Stephen DeWitt, the CEO of our portfolio company Work Market. He was talking about a specific community of people and I asked him how many of them were likely to be freelancers. He said “well the statistic... |
| 22.02.2015 | Building Enterprise Networks Top Down | Most people that are in the VC and startup sector know that USV likes to invest in networks. And most of the networks we invest in are consumer facing networks of people. Peer to peer services, if you will. The list is long and full of bran... |
| 23.01.2015 | Work Market Closes $20M in Growth Capital |
NEW YORK, NY, HR SaaS solution has raised $20 million in growth capital.
>> Click here for more funding data on Work Market
>> To export Work Market funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
Work Market, the SaaS solution... |
| 22.01.2015 | Work Market Raises $20M in Growth Capital | Work Market, a Huntington, NY and in New York City, NY-based solution that helps companies find, engage, manage and pay their freelance and independent contractor workforce from a single platform, raised $20m in growth capital.
The round wa... |
| 21.01.2015 | A Lens Into The Future Of Enterprise Software | I’ve been working with our portfolio company Work Market for four years now. It’s been a real learning experience for me as enterprise and SAAS has never been my long suit. We were attracted to Work Market because, as their name implies, th... |
| 21.01.2015 | Freelancer Manager Work Market Takes In $20 Million | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Work Market, a maker of software meant to help employers manage freelancers, secured $20 million more from its existing investors Wednesday, a week after announcing a new chie... |
| 08.09.2013 | SoundBetter Takes Advantage of the Freelancing Trend in the Music Industry | Nowadays, it seems like every other person you meet does work on a freelance basis. Whether it's design, writing, or some odd job concerning pineapples, the freelance market seems to be more robust than ever. SoundBetter is tapping into an ... |
| 03.06.2013 | MBA Mondays: Sales Leads On A Small Budget | So today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about something useful – Generating sales leads on a small budget. Every startup that wants to sell something runs into this challenge.
I asked Russell Sachs, who runs sales for our portfolio com... |
| 14.05.2013 | Work Market Closes $10M Financing | Work Market, a Huntington, NY-based enterprise-class freelance labor platform and marketplace, closed a $10m financing.
The round was led by new investor SoftBank Capital with participation from existing investors Union Square Ventures and ... |
| 11.12.2012 | NY Enterprise Technology Meetup | Next tuesday evening, I am giving at talk at the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup. I will talk about networks in the enteprise. I plan to use USV investments like WorkMarket and Pollenware to discuss how entrepreneurs can use networks to bui... |
| 30.08.2012 | Networks And The Enterprise | Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don't think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus the consumer... |
| 30.08.2012 | Networks And The Enterprise | Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don’t think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus the consumer... |
| 27.05.2012 | Investment Thesis @USV | Venture firms operate a bunch of different ways. Some have a geographical focus, others have a sector focus, still others have a stage focus. Union Square Ventures’ focus has evolved into what we call a “thesis” but is probably better descr... |
| 24.04.2012 | Startup News: Startups Are the New Grungy Nineties Garage Bands | Walt Mossberg with Steve Jobs in 2007. (Source: Wikipedia)
DIA DE TECNOLOGIA. New York Tech Day was full of NYC based startups—from the established to the unfunded—all stages in the NYC tech lifestyle were represented. The companies that fo... |
| 05.04.2012 | Cloning Successful Startups | Jeff Leventhal, the CEO of our portfolio company WorkMarket, emailed me yesterday. He said:
i would love to see an avc post about copycats like samwer bros. what do u think of this form of entrepreneurs, etc?
I looked back over my archives ... |
| 07.03.2012 | The Nature Of The Firm and Work Markets | Those who watched the video I posted on Sunday saw me talking about this. But I didn't do it justice so I'm going to do a full post on this.
The brilliant Nobel prize winning economist Ronald Coase (who is still alive!) wrote a seminal essa... |
| 07.03.2012 | Startup News: Have Fun in ATX—Love, NYC | Hook 'em! | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Wikipedia)
HILL COUNTRY. Made in NY: Austin will celebrate New York based tech startups at South by Southwest on March 11 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Fast Company Grill at Cedar Door in the Texa... |
| 03.11.2011 | Building The Best Java Team In NYC | For the past two years, I have had the benefit of watching a team of serial founders build one of most exciting new companies in our portfolio. It is a company that not many people know about but they haven't been working in stealth mode. J... |
| 25.08.2011 | Users First, Brands Second | I like simple ways to think about things. Like mobile first, web second. These kinds of constructs work for me. One that I've been using a lot lately to describe what we like and don't like as much is User First, Brands Second.
When you are... |
| 09.04.2011 | usv.com/jobs | Of all the things we have done at USV this year so far, the thing I am most proud of is the work of Gary Chou on our USV Jobs page. Gary wrote a bunch of code that hits the Indeed jobs service (Indeed is a USV portfolio company) and finds a... |
| 14.06.2010 | Work Market | We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the most potential of all is the labor market.
So we are excited to announce our... |
| 14.06.2010 | Work Market Raises Undisclosed Funding | Work Market, a marketplace that allows employers and workers to connect, has received an undisclosed funding from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures.
Founded by serial entrepreneur Jeff Leventhal, the start up is currently expanding it... |
| 14.06.2010 | Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital invest in Work Market | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital have inve... |
| 14.06.2010 | Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital invest in Work Market | Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital have invested in stealthy company called Work Market that allows business to manage their labor and services. Neither fund disclosed the size of the round.
The company’s site is delightfully spartan r... |
| 14.06.2010 | Work Market | This is a cross posting of a blog post I wrote this morning on the USV blog.
We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the ... |
