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Work versus Capital
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2013
I am still in Europe now for a few days of skiing with some friends. Since I am also trying to get some work done at the same time, posts will continue to be super short. Today’s post is simply [...] Read more
Libel, Slander, Defamation and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Jan 25, 2013
At a dinner at DLD we were discussing the issue of libel and I was surprised to find one participant defending the UK law that allows Lord McAlpine to sue individuals who (re)tweeted an allegation against him. Apparently the amounts [...] Read more
Want a Good Deal? Have a Credible Alternative
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2013
First time entrepreneurs often ask me what they should do to maximize their chances of raising venture capital. To which I invariably answer: “Not need it.” Why? Because raising capital or selling your company is all about having a credible [...] Read more
Privacy and DRM: The SnapChat Case
Albert Wenger – Jan 23, 2013
When I first heard about SnapChat I was immediately reminded of the attempts of a friend of mine to establish a DRM’d email platform that would let recipients read an email but not do anything else with it that hadn’t [...] Read more
Dwolla and Iowa (I Love the Midwest)
Albert Wenger – Jan 22, 2013
Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today (due to my travel schedule). Quite fortunately that creates an opening for a brief post about Dwolla, Iowa and the Midwest more generally. I spent my first year in the US as an exchange student [...] Read more
Inaugurating Change?
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2013
Future of Search (Seeking Input)
Albert Wenger – Jan 18, 2013
Bijan has a good post up today with “Some Thoughts on the Future of Search.” This is a topic on my mind following Facebook’s announcement of Graph Search and my upcoming appearance on Monday at DLD on a panel titled [...] Read more
(Survey) Monkeying Around An IPO
Albert Wenger – Jan 17, 2013
For a moment I thought it was a typo when I saw the headline “Survey Monkey Raises $800 Million in Debt and Equity.” Shouldn’t that be $80 million? No. What’s going on? Survey Monkey essentially just provided a massive private [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Concurrency (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Jan 15, 2013
This will be almost the last Tech Tuesday post in the initial series on programming. The basic premise of this series was that programming is a lot like giving a person instructions for how to do something. As I had [...] Read more