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Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations
Albert Wenger – Sep 14, 2016
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start [...] Read more
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