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Shapeways: Manufacturing 2.0 in New York City
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2012
A couple of years ago Shapeways was a tiny company based in the Netherlands with a big idea: providing 3D printing as an on demand service and marketplace. Following an investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures the company [...] Read more
Hiring Too Fast / Too Slow
Albert Wenger – Oct 17, 2012
This is the second post in my Scylla and Charybdis series on why startups are quite so hard. Up today: hiring. Here you can go wrong by hiring too fast but also by hiring too slow. The first problem of [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (Lists, Trees, Graphs)
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2012
As previously promised, this will be the last Tech Tuesday post on Data Structures for a while and starting next week we will return to other aspects of programming. Much of what we have seen in the previous data structure [...] Read more
Do Not Track (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Oct 12, 2012
Yesterday I posted about how the current Do Not Track debate is muddling the underlying issues. I got a great reply from Mike Yang on Twitter that rightly pointed out at P3P had been a mess in part because Microsoft [...] Read more
Do Not Track Debate Is Muddling The Real Issue
Albert Wenger – Oct 11, 2012
The Do Not Track discussions that are currently going on are fascinating because they highlight the huge gap between how the internet actually works and how people are talking about policy. Politicians are giving consumers a false sense that there [...] Read more
Looking for Design Talent
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2012
We are excited to announce a Behance talent audition to identify five designers that will be commissioned to update the look and feel of USV's identity. You can find a detailed design brief at Behance. We have decided on a [...] Read more
Looking for Design Talent
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2012
Today’s post is over at USV where we are looking for design talent to help us update our identity. Funnily there is a question about our logo on Quora. We are excited to be leveraging Behance’s design community for this [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (Arrays)
Albert Wenger – Oct 9, 2012
If you have been a faithful reader of Tech Tuesday, you may be asking yourself just how many more posts on Data Structures could possibly be coming up as this is now the sixth such post (including the introduction). The [...] Read more
Unbundling Higher Education: Credentialing
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2012
Salman Khan has a blog post on CNN where he suggests that credentialing can and should be separated from learning. He makes a compelling argument for why this would be desirable: This unbundling of credentialing is also one of the [...] Read more