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An interesting development I came across, Union Square Ventures looks like they're starting to make public some of their internal market research.

From the article(Union Square Ventures Publishes Its Internal Market Research):
Here’s an interesting move: New York City-based Union Square Ventures (USV), an investor in a few companies you might have heard of (Boxee, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Meetup, Kickstarter and Twilio, among others), has decided to share the market and industry research it conducts internally with everyone.
From their website (Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing):
We've blogged about many aspects of USV, including our investment thesis and our preferences on deal terms, but we've rarely shared our internal research on new markets and industries. On reflection, we've decided it would be better to make that work public. Starting today, we'll share more of our preliminary work on specific markets, industries, and technologies on USV.com. We hope it will be interesting and useful to you all, and we're looking forward to your feedback: what "required reading" did we miss? Which service must we try out? What conclusions have you drawn? Our bias is toward openness, and...

I think this information could be helpful for a lot of fastlaners...
 
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