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Sean Marsh
Alma materBowdoin College
Known forVenture Capital,

Sean Marsh (born February 14, 1973) is a Boston-based venture capitalist. Marsh is the co-founder of Point Judith Capital, a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts which focuses on investments in software and technology enabled services.

Career

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In 1996 Wilson and Jerry Colonna, his partner, founded Flatiron Partners, which was named after the Flatiron District. Based in New York City, it grew into an investment fund that focused primarily on follow-on investing, with investments in notable dot-com bubble successes and failures, including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne, Geocities, Kozmo.com, New York Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Scout electromedia, Standard Media International, Starmedia, and VitaminShoppe.com.[1] The firm's 1996 fund capitalized at $150 million with two investors: SOFTBANK Technology Ventures and Chase Capital Partners, the private-equity arm of Chase Manhattan Corp. The firm later raised another fund capitalized at $500 million with Chase Capital Partners as the sole active LP.[2] In 2001 Wilson and Colonna essentially shut down Flatiron (although they still manage what remains of its portfolio). Wilson offered a blunt assessment in July 2005 in Business 2.0, "Yeah, boy, we really screwed up a bunch of things".[3] Prior to cofounding Flatiron, he was at Euclid Partners.

In 2004 Wilson and Brad Burnham founded Union Square Ventures and have since invested in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Bug Labs, Meetup, Zynga, Covestor, del.icio.us, Etsy, FeedBurner, Heyzap, Indeed.com, Tacoda, Oddcast, Disqus, Zemanta, and Clickable. TheFunded.com, a social networking site for technology entrepreneurs, rated him their favorite venture capitalist in 2007.[4]

Blogging

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Wilson publishes a blog called AVC: musings of a VC in NYC. Wilson publishes one post per day, almost always on a topic related to venture capital, entrepreneurship or the Internet.

Personal life

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Wilson is married with three children and lives in New York City. One of his daughters attends Wesleyan University. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is an active philanthropist and community advocate having worked on initiatives including the redevelopment of Union Square and Madison Square in New York City.[citation needed] He is also a board member of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that connects individuals to classrooms in need. Currently, Wilson is involved in the Pier 40 Partnership.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Lau, Debra (May 17, 2001). "Flatiron Partners Called Back Home". Forbes. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  2. ^ Greene, Bob (Spring 2001). "Flatiron Partners: Presentation to MIT" (PPT). Retrieved March 4, 2008. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Heilemann, John (July 1, 2005). "Start Spreading the News". Business 2.0. CNN Money. Retrieved March 4, 2008. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms", New York Times September 21, 2008, a short profile of Union Square Ventures and Fred Wilson
  5. ^ Anderson, Lincoln (October 3, 2007). "Parents group means business on Pier 40's future". The Villager. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
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Category:American bloggers Category:Living people Category:Venture capitalists Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:1961 births Category:American company founders


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