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Information Technology and Firm Size (Thesis)
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2012
As previously announced, I have self-published my MIT PhD thesis. Today’s post is about the first paper, which is titled “Information Technology and Firm Size” which – as the rather plain title suggests – examines statistical evidence of the impact [...] Read more
The Return of the Capital Intensive Startup
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2012
This post is a bit more thinking out loud than usual but I am grappling with what I perceive to be a big change in the startup landscape. Here are some of its symptoms: the return of TV, print and [...] Read more
Post Hurricane Sandy Update and Idea
Albert Wenger – Oct 31, 2012
Regular scheduled programming should return tomorrow. On Monday I posted how the storm surge was the biggest threat to New York City and that’s exactly what happened. There was definitely damage from wind blasts and also several people were killed [...] Read more
Sandy And NYC: It’s All About the Surge
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2012
Our kids have been super excited since yesterday afternoon that school has been canceled for today. Waking up this morning and looking around they were a bit surprised to see that it seemed to be neither blowing nor even raining [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2012
One of the truly depressing things about listening to the presidential debates was that both sides seem to be disregarding a fundamental factor in the economy: the displacement of humans by “machines” (in quotes because these days the machines in [...] Read more
Surface and iPad Mini
Albert Wenger – Oct 24, 2012
It seems as if Microsoft can’t catch a break any more. On the day that all the Surface reviews come out, Apple hogs the news with the iPad Mini launch. Then again, given that the reviews for the Surface are [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Introduction)
Albert Wenger – Oct 23, 2012
We have covered a lot of ground in the previous Tech Tuesday posts on programming. Now it is time to return to the original definition that I provided in the introductory post, where I wrote that programming is “telling a [...] Read more
Self Publishing My Thesis
Albert Wenger – Oct 22, 2012
In 1999, which now feels like a very long time ago, I finished my PhD thesis at MIT. I had started working on it following my general exams in 1996 but promptly got very busy co-founding a company (the now [...] Read more
Feature Friday: The Logged Out Experience
Albert Wenger – Oct 19, 2012
Most startups spend all their time on optimizing the experience for registered and logged in users. But what about those who come to a site through a link? Or right to the home page by either typing the company’s URL [...] Read more