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Defamatory Autocomplete (Information Cascades)
Albert Wenger – May 15, 2013
A court in Germany just ruled that Google must remove autocomplete suggestions is they are defamatory. Now at first blush this seems quite silly and Google has taken the position that they are simply reflecting what people are searching for. [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Topics to Cover?
Albert Wenger – May 14, 2013
The current Tech Tuesday series is about technology in startups. I started the series out with posts on initially choosing and evolving your technology. Since then I have been writing about best practices for growing and structuring your engineering team, [...] Read more
More Misguided Laws Proposed: Science Funding and 3D Printing
Albert Wenger – May 13, 2013
Our elected representatives are busy at work coming up with misguided laws. Leading the charge once again is Lamar Smith, this time proposing to replace peer review of NSF grants with congressional criteria (Congress of course is not exactly known [...] Read more
Simplify Your Pitch (Keep the Details for Later)
Albert Wenger – May 10, 2013
When I was an entrepreneur raising money I tended to make a classic mistake: trying to convey all the amazing things we were doing in great detail. This is a terrible strategy. Why? Because too much detail buries the story [...] Read more
Toward a Better Patent System
Albert Wenger – May 9, 2013
Another topic that I have written a lot about here on Continuations are patents and in particular software patents. While there is a lot of reform that I would love to see I have also come to appreciate that sometimes [...] Read more
Privacy: Sorry, You Can’t Have it Both Ways
Albert Wenger – May 8, 2013
There is so much happening with privacy right now that it is enough to make my head spin. What is clear though is that individuals, companies and government all want it both ways. Some parts of government want private enterprise [...] Read more
Summer Internships at Ziggeo
Albert Wenger – May 6, 2013
It’s not too late to find a summer internship! In fact, my wife Susan and her co-founder Oliver over at Ziggeo are looking for marketing and sales interns for the summer. So if you know of any students who are [...] Read more
Is the Stock Market High?
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2013
The stock market indices are above their pre financial crisis highs. One interpretation of this is that the financial crisis was just that: a crisis of the financial sector that left the rest of the economy largely untouched. Another interpretation [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Retaining Engineers
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote that the companies which do well on hiring engineers are the ones that “prioritize both hiring *and* having a great work environment.” The post went on to talk about some of the best practices in [...] Read more