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Announcing Tech Tuesdays
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2011
Fred’s MBA Mondays series has been really terrific and has inspired me to start a Tech Tuesdays series, which will launch next Tuesday. The subtitle for Tech Tuesdays could be: Everything you always wanted to know about computers but were [...] Read more
Needed: The Opposing View Reader
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2011
I have tried out quite a few social news readers and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will already have seen most of the stories that they present in [...] Read more
Marketplaces Vs. Middlemen
Albert Wenger – Sep 30, 2011
The NYT covered a company called cater2.me the other day under the headline “The Middleman is Thriving on the Internet.” Throughout the article the author refers to the company as an example of middlemen, including in the following: While this [...] Read more
Protest Is Good, Disruption Is Better
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2011
I am supportive of the #occupywallstreet protest as an exercise of First Amendment rights. I too am frustrated with a financial and economic system that has made the rich richer, has hollowed out the middle class and has ever more [...] Read more
Disclosure
Albert Wenger – Sep 27, 2011
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. We are having the Union Square Ventures portfolio summit where for one day founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies come together. It is an amazing opportunity for everyone involved [...] Read more
My Facebook Setup
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2011
Following f8, there has been a new explosion of discussion around Facebook’s voracious data gathering. For instance, Facebook keeps cookies on your machine even when you are logged out which allows them at least in principle to track your visits [...] Read more
Asking For Introductions (How To)
Albert Wenger – Sep 23, 2011
Mark Birch has a great post today about using LinkedIn correctly when asking for introductions. Very timely as I was planning to write about introductions today and now need to write only a fraction because Mark covers everything else (he [...] Read more
How Schools Destroy Learning
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2011
Couldn’t resist an attention grabbing headline here after spending yesterday morning with my daughter on the kind of homework that just completely takes the fun out of learning. In geography her class is learning about latitude and longitude. As homework [...] Read more
Google Wallet and In-App Transactions
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2011
Google’s announcement of the initial availability of Google Wallet was interesting but not because of any immediate impact. Initially, this will be the equivalent of a large field trial as it will be available only on Nexus S phones and [...] Read more