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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
Too Much / Too Little Money
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2012
This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard because you can always err both by doing too little of something but [...] Read more
Becoming a Manager
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2012
Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my own experience with the challenge of going from being an individual contributor to being [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (Objects)
Albert Wenger – Oct 2, 2012
This is the fifth post on Data Structures as part of my long Tech Tuesday series on programming. And today we finally make it to a structure known as an object. There is a whole literature on so-called object oriented [...] Read more
Free Textbooks from California (Edu Hacks)
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2012
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post titled “Hacking Textbooks - We Need It” where I pointed out that college textbooks are a $7B annual market in the US alone. I was therefore thrilled to see that [...] Read more
Benefit Corporation Update
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2012
Since I first wrote about the Benefit Corporation several great things have happened, including New York State passing legislation and Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. Since most venture backed companies are incorporated in Delaware, it would be terrific to [...] Read more