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ChangeX Launches in the US
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2016
Susan and I have been supporting ChangeX for a number of years. It is a nonprofit that helps people share and discover ways to improve the communities they live in. Since its launch Dublin based ChangeX has been growing rapidly [...] Read more
9/11 Visiting the Museum
Albert Wenger – Sep 11, 2016
Three years ago we went as a family to the 9/11 memorial which at the time was still surrounded by a fence. The museum had not yet opened. This year in June, when my mother was visiting from Germany, I [...] Read more
Shippo
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift [...] Read more
Shippo: API for Shipping
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Today’s blog post is over at USV announcing our investment in Shippo. I have written previously about how the future of programming will consist of composing applications from different APIs. We already have quite a few building blocks in our [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Reality, Explanations, Observations
Albert Wenger – Sep 7, 2016
Understanding uncertainty, and even more so explaining it, is hard is because it requires a foundational framework — the reason that most explanations feel isolated is that they avoid this initial step. Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday post is my first cut [...] Read more
Labor Day: From the Job Loop to the Knowledge Loop (via Universal Basic Income)
Albert Wenger – Sep 5, 2016
Today we are celebrating Labor Day, a day that was originally started by Labor Unions in the early 1880s. At the time it was not a public holiday but rather took the form of a walkout demonstration or general strike. [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: A New Series
Albert Wenger – Aug 31, 2016
A while back I did a Tech Tuesday series which I thoroughly enjoyed writing. So I have decided to write a new series. This one will be on uncertainty. I was holding off on starting it as I have work [...] Read more
Pre-Money vs. Post-Money Valuation: Best Practice in Term Sheets
Albert Wenger – Aug 30, 2016
Yesterday a debate erupted on Twitter between VCs over whether term sheets should express a company’s valuation in pre-money or post-money terms and whether that even matters. This started with a blog post by Rob Go from Nextview on why [...] Read more
Building Better Algorithms Requires Human Judgment (and Values)
Albert Wenger – Aug 29, 2016
At the end of last week Facebook announced that it would stop having humans write summaries of trending news stories. This follows previous allegations that the selection of trending stories had been changed to remove conservative ones. This is a [...] Read more