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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
Excited about edX
Albert Wenger – May 3, 2012
For a couple of years now I have been complaining to folks in the Harvard administration that the school is woefully behind when it comes to embracing the Internet. So I was thrilled to see the announcement of the edX [...] Read more
Seattle, We Have a (Kindle Screen) Problem
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2012
I love reading books on my traditional Kindle. I find the eInk display to be easy on my eyes and make extensive use of highlighting. It’s great not to feel tempted to fire up an app or check email while [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Syntax
Albert Wenger – May 1, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced programming languages by making a series of analogies to human languages. We will continue the programming cycle today by deepening that analogy with regard to syntax. Syntax is the set of rules that describe how [...] Read more
Identity: A Huge Business Opportunity
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2012
Companies across our portfolio are spending a lot of resources on suppressing various types of undesirable behavior ranging from comment spam to outright financial fraud. Much of this could be avoided through a probabilistic identity system. I have written about [...] Read more