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Uncertainty Wednesday: Zoltar Example (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2017
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, [...] Read more
Looking for a Research Assistant
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2017
For 2017 I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first is to get into better shape (yes, like just about everyone else judging from the crowd at the gym today). The second is to finish my book World After Capital. [...] Read more
2017
Albert Wenger – Jan 2, 2017
Having been fortunate to take two weeks off on a family vacation and stayed away from most news, I feel ready to tackle 2017. Going into this new year I am reminding myself of two principles that apply equally well [...] Read more
How To Cold Email an Investor
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2016
Last week I noticed that I had received several cold emails from entrepreneurs that started in exactly the same fashion: So I decided to tweet about it because it appeared as if people had just copied a template. Sure enough [...] Read more
An Opportunity for States and Cities
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2016
I have not been writing a lot because I am still digesting much of what the outcome of the US election and Trump’s presidency may bring. One thought that is forming though is that States will play a much bigger [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Zoltar Example (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2016
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I set up the first example which I called Zoltar as a machine that And I asked how to use the Uncertainty Wednesday framework to think about uncertainty here. This requires us to do two things. We [...] Read more
Mobile: From Ads to Commerce
Albert Wenger – Nov 28, 2016
In 2011 I gave a talk at conference that The Media Kitchen had organized about the impact of mobile on marketing. While everyone else presenting was talking about how to make mobile ads work, I was openly critical of advertising [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Our First Example (Zoltar)
Albert Wenger – Nov 23, 2016
So far Uncertainty Wednesday has been, ahem, somewhat abstract and dry. A challenge for me in writing anything, including World After Capital, is that I like to proceed methodically, which means putting foundations first (note to self: this makes for [...] Read more
Thinking Fast, Abandoning Knowledge (When We Need it Most)
Albert Wenger – Nov 18, 2016
I have been trying to put my finger on what exactly bothers me quite so much about Trump’s approach to politics. Yes, there are lots of individual elements that people have rightly criticized. But now I have figured out what [...] Read more