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Off the Grid (China Edition)
Albert Wenger – May 16, 2012
We are about to go on a trip to China and I couldn’t be more excited. I have never been to Asia before and am looking forward to the experience. China in particular has held my fascination since taking Roderick [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Literals, Constants and Variables
Albert Wenger – May 15, 2012
I may have lost a bunch of Tech Tuesday readers with that post on semantics last week, so today I am hoping to gain some back with a much easier topic! We are continuing the cycle on programming by looking [...] Read more
Behance
Albert Wenger – May 14, 2012
We have long believed that the Internet is about giving "power to the people." One way in which the Internet does that is by letting people show what they have created to the world. People do that in all sorts [...] Read more
Behance
Albert Wenger – May 14, 2012
Today’s post is over at USV, where we announced our investment in Behance. Read more
B Corporation
Albert Wenger – May 10, 2012
Etsy announced yesterday that the company has become a Certified B Corporation. In doing so Etsy joins a growing group of now over 500 companies that includes Patagonia and Seventh Generation. We are excited about this as it fits well [...] Read more
Etsy Becomes a Certified B Corporation
Albert Wenger – May 10, 2012
Today’s blog post is over at the USV blog on Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. It all started with this. Congrats to Chad and the team at Etsy on taking transparency and responsibility to the community and making it [...] Read more
Wag.com #thistimeitsdifferent
Albert Wenger – May 9, 2012
Yesterday, I tweeted that with the following picture and got quite a few replies and retweets. Some people saw it as a sign of a potential new bubble (or even the imminent collapse of the same) while others said they [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Semantics
Albert Wenger – May 8, 2012
During the last Tech Tuesday we talked about the syntax of programming languages as part of the cycle on programming. That’s a term you will hear frequently in no small part because when you get it wrong the computer will [...] Read more
Europe at Risk and What it Means for US Startups
Albert Wenger – May 7, 2012
Europe had three elections on the weekend: presidential in France, parliamentary in Greece and regional in Germany. The results are strongly anti-incumbent across he board. In France, Sarkozy is out and Hollande is in. In Greece, the PASOK party went [...] Read more