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Realtime Payments Innovation: BBVA Connects to Dwolla’s FiSync
Albert Wenger – Oct 30, 2014
A lot of technology gets built through layering new systems on top of old ones to the point where some stacks look like an archeological dig at Troy. There is nothing wrong with that approach per se, except that over [...] Read more
Shared Equipment: 3D Printer Innovation (Shapeways & HP)
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2014
Historically when a new and initially expensive piece of technology became available, all we could do was admire it from a distance and hope that some day in the future a cheaper version would be available for all of us [...] Read more
What To Do (and Not) About Online Discourse
Albert Wenger – Oct 24, 2014
GamerGate has laid bare a fundamental fault line for online discourse. A. Words matter. Anyone dismissing tweets threatening violence along the lines of “sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me” is trivializing the power [...] Read more
Lump of Labor: Certainly a Red Herring (And Possibly not a Fallacy)
Albert Wenger – Oct 22, 2014
I have written before that it is OK to worry about the effects of automation on work. One frequently encountered response is that this worry is wrong, that having it is committing the Lump of Labor fallacy. Marc in particular [...] Read more
Network Effects for SaaS Businesses
Albert Wenger – Oct 21, 2014
Later today I am talking at Point Nine Capital’s annual SaaS conference. The topic will be how to create network effects for SaaS businesses. Just as a quick reminder, a business has network effects if the value of the service [...] Read more
A Short Note on the Word “Panic”
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2014
In the current discussions on what to do (or not to do) about the Ebola outbreak the word “panic” is being abused. Panic means a “sudden, overpowering terror, often affecting many people at once.” And some of the nonstop CNN [...] Read more
Parallel Book Reading
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2014
I used to be highly skeptical that one could be reading more than one book at a time. But in the last couple of years what I have found works best for me is to have 3-4 non fiction books [...] Read more
Changing Society, Startups, (My)Self
Albert Wenger – Oct 9, 2014
The Next Big Thing? (Techonomy Detroit)
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2014
Last week I was in Detroit to speak at Techonomy’s one day conference there. I had never been to the city before and enjoyed meeting Mike Duggan, the mayor, Beth Niblock, CIO, and many other people working hard to turn [...] Read more